The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-09-21
GIRL TELLS OF
BRUTAL ATTACK
Miss Pauline Miles Gives
Testimony in Madison
Hearing Today.
A STORY OF BRUTES
Madison, Chester Kramer and
R. A. Better Are All
Named in Attack.

Bravely facing roomful of crowded
listeners in the municipal court room
this morning in the preliminary hear
ing of Nels Madison, charged with
criminal assault, Miss Pauline Miles,
young girl of Is years, of 906 Mar
ket street, told her story of the ter
rible succession of events at Anderson
park on the night of August 10, when.
as she charges, she was the victim of
dastardly assault by three young
men of the town, Nels Madison, Ches-
ter Kramer and R. A. Better. Brave,
but with her heart curling up within
her, and her lips from time to time
trembling and her voice so low that
it could scarce be heard, she still man
aged to give the incidents in the NOV
ing and piteous story some of the de-
tails of which are too revolving to be
published.
Tells Own Story.
The state was represented by Roy
S. Stephenson, assistant district at
torney, while Calvin Stewart appeared
as counsel for the defendant.
During the testimony given by Miss
Miles, Madison slouched defantly in
chair back of his counsel, with his
back half-turned to the audience, and
screened from the others by the com
pact figure of his counsel.
Miss Miles story was substantially
as follows:
81 went to Anderson's park On Au-
gust 10 with a girl friend We
went because we wanted to go
| to the dance. saw Madison
for the first time at 11:15 o'clock that
night. Kramer had just been talking
to me and then Madison came up. 1t
was a few feet from the north door.
Then Madison took me to the south
side of the pavilion around the east
corner. He lead me with his hand
on my arm. He asked me to go for
a boat ride and I said Mo- Then he
said he wanted to take me home. I
said that l didn't want to then, be-
cause l was going to meet my friend
and go home with him."
Miss Miles said that Madison then
| took her down to the bank of the la
COON He took her by the hand, she
said, and drew her down to the bank,
so near that she feared she would fall
| in.
"Lie!" Kissed the slouching youth
in the defendants chair.
The girl said that Madison sat with
her on bench, and that while they
were there, Kramer came down and
| h. AaI ha
and he replied No. whereupon Kram-
er went away When Kramer was gone,
she said, Madison attacked. Her cries
and struggles against him proved un-
availing, she said, for no one seemed
to hear or heed her screams, and Madi-
sons strength overpOwered her.
| Presently, according to her story,
thew were Joined by Kramer and the
two men spoke of a car, whereupon
Kramer left and returned with Better,
and the three men pulled her from the
ground and pushed her into the car.
She begged them to let her go, she
said, and told them that she knew
the streets and could find her way
home. But they paid no attention and
Better at the wheel drove on. In the
hack seat Kramer sat on one side Of
her and Madison on the other. Better
drove out of the west entrance and
turned into Newell street, drove one
block on Newell and turned into Grow
err. back again to the park, and then
on Lester street to Rowland avenue.
| They then drove out to field on South
Rowland avenue.
Here, the witness said, these three
men pulled her out of the car though
she fought with them to the limit of
her strength. Madison, she declared
threw her into haystack in the field
and again assaulted her. The young
girl. trembling, cried that her strength
was zone and she could not move. Bet
zer then came up to where the torn
lamb lay.
whats the matter?" Better asked,
according to the witness. "Have you
killed her"
NO." Madison answered, according
to the testimony. "She isn't dead"
Better then assaulted the girl, she
testified, and later the men picked her
up and put her in the automobile. She
said that she did not resist and could
not, and believed she was fainting. In
the car on their return, she said that
Kramer assaulted her.
Counsel for Madison, Calvin Stew
art, did not spare the young girl in
an attempt to break down her story,
and attempted to bring an admission
that the attacks of the men were made
with her consent.
Dr. Helen Harbert and DR.. G. A.
Germano will give their testimony this
afternoon as to the physical condition
the young girl was found in the day
following the alleged attacks.