The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-05-10
Little Girl Attacked By
Auto Driver On Road
1915 Year old Child Assaulted Near
Round Prarie-Man was Stranger
and Escapes

While going home from school Fri
day afternoon little Adeline Drevlow,
1872 year-old daughter of Otto Drew
low, of Round Prairie, was attacked
by stranger and assaulted.
The little girl attends the Lutheran
parochial school and had been in the
habit of going home with the Grau-
man young folks, who also live in
Round Prairie The Grauma 4 .iu~e.,
attend the public schools and that day
were detained by an examination, SO
the little girl started OF walk home
alone. When on the outskirts of the
village, near the Skillings farm, a
stranger came along in an automobile
and invited her to ride withhim. She
refused to get in the car, but he urg-
ed her and pulled her in. They proc
coded south to the Blackenbu4g hill
and then turned east up lonely
road, where the little girl was attack
ed. Returning, he left her at the top
of the Blackenburg hill, put her out
OF the ar and drove rapidly south
toward Sank Centre.
The little girl went home and told
her mother what had happened and
the authorities were notified. They
made an immediate investigation, but
the description of the stranger was
meagre and as two or three hours had
interviewed no trace of him could be
had and in all likelihood he has got
out of the country and escaped.
The little girl was not seriously in
jured. She describes the stranger as
a young man about Is years of age,
who wore a black leather vest under
an overcoat of grayish green. In COM
parison she gave his height and it
seems that he must have been about 5
feet inches tall. He wore brown OK
ford shoes and a black cap. The car
was runabout, black color, but was
not Ford. The little girl does not
know what kind of a car it was and
further than the above description
can give no other information regard
ing him. She says that he told her he
had attended the Long Prairie public
schools about year ago. 1t is quite
probable that this latter statement is
not true. John Rosenow and son,
John, also his son, Walter, who were
working near the road east from the
Blackenburg hill, saw the car with it's
occupants, but thought nothing of the
occurrence. The little girl says that
she endeavOred to cry out to them, but
that the man at her side threatened to
kill her if she made any noise.
That Alkaline had been roughly
used by the stranger is further attest
ed by Dorothy and Taylor Van Blari-
com, little children of Ray Van Blari-
com who lives at the foot of the
Blackenburg hill. The children hap
pened to be near the top of the hill
walking along when the car returned
along the road from the east. They
saw the car stop and the man throw
then drive on rapidly. They did not
know either party, but upon arriving
home told their mother that a man
had whipped little girl at the top
of the nill."
Mrs. Van Blaricom knew nothing
of the circumstances and paid no fur
Their attention to the incident until
the alarm had been sounded and
search started for the girls assailant.
The incident. should be a suggestion
to parents to warn children not, to
accept automobile rides from strang-
ers. In various parts of the state,
particularly in cities, there have been
incidents of a character similar to
this one, but so far as we know this is
the first time there has been any such
trouble in our county. The automobile
has made it possible for all kinds of
people to be journeying over the
state, to travel rapidly and to disap-
pear quickly. This suggest certain
crimes. Children should be cautioned
not to ride or accept advances from
strangers who are driving
cars.-Long Prairie Leader.