San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-14
ARREST MADE
| At TER WOMAN
IS ASSAULTED
II. P. Vernon Held Follow
ing Alleged Brutal
Attack.
INVITED FOR RIDE
INVITED FOR RIDE
Complainant Says She Was
Tricked and Mis-
treated.

It. p. Vernon, white man about 80
ears old, will be arraigned before
Justice of the Peace Ben S. Fisk at
o'clock Wednesday afternoon,
harged By complaint with a statu-
|ory offense growing out Of an al
eyed attack upon a white woman res
dent of Prospect Hill Monday af-
ernoon. Vernon was arrested by
Deputy Sheriff John Cooper aud Mo-
orcycle Deputy Jack Mynier late
tuesday afternoon after the white wo-
nam had reported the alleged crime
the sheriff's Office. Vernon appear
in Justice CampbelPs court We'd
esday morning. his face in bandages
result of an encounter with Dep
" Mynier. His hearing was post
oned until O'Clock in order that
might secure a lawyer.
The alleged attack upon the wom-
n, according TO the story she tod
thief Deputy Aphonse Newton We'd
esday morning, occurred shortly af-
,r s O'Clock Monday afternoon at a
pnely spot beyond the West End
Ike. She had become acquainted with
ne man at a church function. Mon
Law AFTERNOONS about 3 O'clock. she
I'D. She was writing fcr a street car
d the corner of Medina and West
Houston street. Vernon came along
mis- car, apparently bound for town
Ind asked her if she wished TO ride.
be accepted the offer and got in the
lr.
Says She Was Locked in Car.
Instead Of going 20 town, however,
re woman told officers, Vernon took
circuitous route and being unfa-
liliar with the streets in the city she
| id not realize where she was until
ernon stopped the car beyond West
nd lake. She had repeatedly told
ernon, the woman said, that she was
a hurry 10 get 10 town and return
1me as she had company coming that
ening.
When Vernon, after refusing to pro-
ed 10 town, finally stopped the car,
re woman told officers, she jumped
1t. He persuaded her TO get back
to the car, she sad, promising that
would not modest her but would
he her back to the city. Wheu--be
I'd induced her to again enter the
Ir, however, the woman said, he
cked the doors of the coupe, drove
rther out of town and then attacked
n. Chief Deputy Newton described
ie victim as n frail woman and in
pable of much rcsistanceA
After the attack. the woman told
ficers. Vernon permitted her TO get
1t of the car and she caught a street
r back to town. Her husband was
II of town and has not yet returned.
The woman and her husband occupy
| lhouse belonging to Deputy MJnier
hi take care of his child. The woman
ported the attack TO the deputy and
at once reported it TO the sheriff's
flee.
Vernon Is Beaten by Officer.
Search for Vernon at an address
which he formerly lived, officers
id, revealed the fact that he had
owed during the night, telling his
hdlady that he was moving TO an
partment house on Cincinnati ave
re. He could not be located there.
pwever, but officers later discovered
had moved ito house on Warren
rect. 1t was at this place that the
10 deputies found the man late Tues
~. In making the arrest Vernon
as badly battered up when, it is
aimed, he resisted Deputy Mynier.
The woman, Chief Deputy Newton
i'd. was in a hysteric ondition
hen she appeared at the sheriff's Of
te Wednesday. II was with diff
lty that she related the story Of the
tack. She IS said to have borne marks
her throat which she sustained dur
z the attack upon her.
This is the second crime of this ma
re 10 occur in San Antonio during
e last few weeks. though it is the
st TO be staged in brad daylight.
| lily few weeks ago a white woman
rs abducted near Alamo PIAZZA and
ken north of the city, where she was
tackled. The man charged with the
Tense was later adjudged criminally