The Alaska citizen., 1916-02-21
THREE INDICTED
 ON RAPE CHARGE
Dan Callahan, W. H. Woodbridge and Robert Jones Are Arrested on Bench Warrants Under Secret lndict- ments Charged With Rape of Girls Under Age---Ar- raignments This MOrl.ing

f", ar under the age of 16 year
 a n je considered. fsr t.-. ra4sJ J.. t@at jhe law gives the age of cor .rnt as Is years.
 Y ,Iirj5ao'5 s,orf.
 W H. Woodbridge heard that he -ar ing investigated by ta, -raa1 jury several days before the tai.cG#cnt charging him with crime '.a- rs rsturIcd l!e stated tbat he was
 .p'aart Of any crime and that his aY,stiZation and indictment by the -I.nd iuEy was a result Of his hay ing. as notary public, affixed his notal.al seal to two attdavits; one against District Attorney R F. Roth and the other against United States Marshal L. r Erwin
 Beyond denying his guilt of any crime MT. Woodbridge did not men, tion anything concerning the first count in tha indictment He stat cd, however. that (not knowing how the counts would be brought the second count was deliberate trap laid to catch him in connection with the Harrington girl
 His st&;cmeUL in effect Dre@i GUS t. his arrest, follows:
 "l had a potato deal pendinc with George Harrington whereby he w&5 to come to my house and take portion of my potatoes for his own use I spoke to him several finally, because my potatoes needed sorting and l did not want to do all of the work of sorting them. l decided to go to see Mr. Harrington about whether or not he wanted tc take them.
 'I went up to Herrington's house one night about s o'clock. The lit tie gill met me at the door asked for her father and sho told me he was upstairs asleep. She further remarked that he surely would be down soon and asked me to come in and hear a graDhoDhone record. went in and she put the record on, I did not take off my overcoat
 'I had not been there yery long "hfn there was knock at tho door The girl went to the docr, opened it, and two men with their fur coat collars high about lneir necks, et"pr-d 'H They asked fer Ge9rg Harrington. was unable to see their faces and was surprised at such suspicious actions.
 T was mere surprised however, when the girl said, in response to their question that her father was down town and that she did not know when he would be home The men then went out, turning their faces away from me so that I could not see them. (When interviewed concerning the matter above stated, Chief Deputy Marshal J. H. Miller acknowledged that the men referred to were himself and Deputy Marshal George Berg).
 q immediately decided to go home and SO told the little Herring ton girl good night All the way home I pondered on what the two men wanted and why the girl should tell me a deliberate falsehood con corning the presence of her father in the house. And delberated more and more as I thought the proposition over.
 q finally decided that I would return to the Harrington home and talk the thing over with the girl, SC l vert back there I did not go into the house that time, although the girl invited me to do so. In response to my questions she stated that she did not know who the two men were and that she had lied to me about her father being at home.
 T have some work to do down at Odd Fellows hall and on tho night of one of the meetings I went down as usual. AS soon as all of the people who came were there. my duty was over, so I de- cided that I would go down town. I went to the shop of J. P. Rose on Lacey street
 'l had not been there very long when the little Harrington girl came running in. It was, perhaps, a few moments after o'clock in the ev- ening. Both MT Rose and I asked her the reason for her seeming agi- tation and she said that she was afraid of three men who were fol lowing her.
 We told her to go into the back room. Shortly after that I heard a scratching in the hallway next to the shop and decided to go out and investigate.
 When I went out I saw two men I do not know who they were standing on the McPhee corner of Lacey street. Looking in the other direction on Lacey saw three more men standing on the Wilson bath house corner, or on the corner of Second and Lacey. I went toward the three men.
 When I reached the men I saw