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' II* I ■ lit I ' n/» ' • umw n no ■Next morning when she was locatedat the home of Cummins. Sheriff Bopr was called.Cummins worked at a sawmill near the Querry home last winter and boarded at the home. There he became acquainted with the girl MrQnerry works at the Monon pumping station at Wallace Junction, and ie well known in the southern part of the county Cummins is married and. it is said his wife was at home Friday night. /Sheriff Roes returned that afternoon accompanied by the girl andher father The girl, while closetedwith her father and Prosecutor Suth-erlin. said she and Cummins met a* the Quincy Picnic Thursday. That day. she said, they had illicit r* ta-tions She said that Friday night she and Cummins were together on the railroad tracks near Cloverdale but denied that they had illegal relations She said they loved a IP Me* that she loved Cummins and couldn't help it.”A search was made for Cummins In Cloverdale Saturday morning but he had disappeared. A warrant for his arrest, charging: him either with rape or of contributing to the delinquency of a child will ho filed.Mrs Cummins, when asked concerning the whereabouts of her husband. Raid she did not know where he had gone. She took the matter very mildly and unconcernedly said the Querry girl stayed at the Cum tnins home Friday night.Thr officials say that it is n cn^e lt;f ft child becoming infatuated with ’ man and of the man taking advantage of the child's infatuation T,‘ 1Querry girl is only fourteen years°ld nnd hardly accountable for her actions. Cummins is about thlrty-flv# P**r« old and the father of two children
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GreenCastle Herald Democrat
Greencastle, Indiana, US
Fri, Aug 22, 1913
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