Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-10-11
HELD ON
SERIOUS CHARGE
ARMoN MORROW ALLEGED TO
HAVE ATTEMPTED ASSAULT
ION WHITE GIRL.
ACCUSED DENIES GUILT;
HELD UNDER $1,000 BOND
Said to Have Entered Home of
Neishbor and Attempted Criminal
Assault on 18-Year- Old Martha
Schrador-county Attorney Will
Insist on Positive Identification.

Armon Morrow, q negro, rooming
at 500 South Sixth avenue, was ar
rested at 8 o'clock Saturday night by
Officer Maurice Cummings on a
warrent charging assault, information
having been filed by Mrs. Martha
Busing, 307 South Sixth avenue, for
her daughter, Miss Martha Schradpr.
aged Is years. The arrest OF Nor
row was made largely on suspicion
and County Attorney A. B. Hoover
will insist on positive Identification
by Mrs. Busing and her two daugh-
ters.
Morrow denies his guilt, declaring
he was in his room at the time the
assault is alleged to have been COM
mitted. between II and IL o'clock
Friday night Mrs. Busing COM
planned to Judge b. o. Tankersley
Saturday afternoon, declaring she
had hesitated to file q charge be-
cause OF the insistance Of her daugh-
ter that the matter be kept quiet to
protect her from the publicity at
tached to the case should an arrest
be made.
The case was referred to the coun-
ty attorney and Morrow was order
ed taken into custody. He was
found at his room Saturday night.
In municipal court today he entered
a plea of not guilty thru his attorney
and hearing was set for 9 o'clock
Wednesday morning. Morrow is In
jail under bond OF $4,000.
Sister Tells Story.
Bernice Schrador, aged IS, sister
Of the alleged victim of the assault,
told the police her story. She said
she had remained up late getting her
arithmetic lesson and that her moth
er and sister, Martha, had gone to
bed. She went up stairs to her room.
forgetting to put out the light In
the sitting room. Her sister. who
had Como to bed q half hour before,
was asleep.
The girl had been In bed probably
q half hour and had Just fallen
asleep when she was awakened by
some one near the bed. The In
truder was described as Morrow. He
was said to carry revolver and told
the girl II she made any noise he
would shoot her.
The girl said she made no outcry.
She then attempted to pinch her
sister to awaken her.
Negro Assaults Sister
The negro went to the opposite
side Of the bed and told tho o'do~
sister to remain quiet or he would
shoot her. The younger girl pulled
the bed clothing over her head.
The negro had gained entrance,
she thought, thru an open window
on the first floor and had assembled
to the girls room, the window Of
which looks out on the window of
Morrow's room in the house next
door to the south.
The mother claims to have recog-
nized the negro as he left the house.
Martha Schrador was said to be
hystericAl Sunday and no statement
was obtained from her by the Off
GERS. County Attorney Hoover ex-
pected to have statement from her
today!
Family Has Had Trouble. Z
Mrs. Busing's husband was cleo
trocuted at the Iowa Railway and
Light Company's power plant three
years ago. The younger daughter,
who told the story of the crime, was
the victim OF an alleged attempted
assault year or two ago, In which
a neighbor was accused but who was
acquitted in district court.
The crime charged against Nor
row is punishable by term Of TWEEN
ty years in the penitentiary. Nor
row insists that he attended church
Friday night and went from the
church to- his room, going immedi-
ately to bed He came here last May
from Alabama and is employed in
the M. &, st. L. round house.