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S’1-ssill!ItleIVi-j-0V.i'-erleitndiitleYoung Girl Is Beaten,Bitten and RavishedDorothy Webb, 11, Victim of Ex-Convict WhoReverts to Barbarism.Sullivan. Ill—Victim of an| sent last year lor robbery of a Bruceex-convict who reverted tcrstore- According to States Attor-ex-convict wno rcverteuw nlt;;y hp may be returnedacts of barbarism earlj ^un lt;^ere to complete his sentence andday morning while excited by j then brought to Justice in this counlust and drink, Dorothy Webb, eleven-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Webb of near Bruce, is in a criticalcondition with bodily wounds andty when liberated in September, this year.ON WAY TO PONTIAC.Arraigned Monday forenoon before Justice of the Peace I*. Lam-brecht, Abbott waived a preliminary hearing and his bond on the criminal charge was fixed at $20,0t)0. Hethe effects of her ravishment. Hei i- j attacker, said to be Hay Abbott r- twenty-year-old farm hand, is: then was turned over to Rudolph guarded.in his cell in the Moultrie;Lorenz, state parole officer of De-county jail, having been arrested at catur, who started at once for Pon-□rig| the scene of his crime by Shenff)e | Halac Lansden and Deputy Sheiiff Hii Charles Lansden, shortly after his eJ alleged attackiisi Abbott faces charges of rape and i- attempt to murder, with a possible additional charge of kidnaping, according to State’s Attorney R. B.tiac to return the fellow to the reformatory.r-stiis*yinlen,aasd-Idtoinroryn-heDTIty,19-n-n-ofednsABBOTT HELD INJAIL AT DECATURcina1ne\CraiClp.)dyiorsetmeme51l£Sullivan—It was revealed here in official circles shortly before noon Foster, who was busy Monday fore- Monday that Ray Abbott, assailantnoon in preparation for prosecution of the youth, who entered the girl’s sleeping room at the home of her parents, seized her and stifling her cries, carried her to his car and got away early Sunday morning, shortly after midnight.MOTHER AROUSED.A cry from the girl, described as a '‘strangled” cry, aroused the mother, Mis. Webb, in time for her to see the receding car and identify it as one driven by Abbott. The shenff was called immediately and posses were sent out in pursuit. One group of men, including the girl’s father, finally located the Abbott car a half mile west of the Waggoner church, two or three milesof Dorothy Webb, was kept m Jail at Decatur over Sunday night as a measure of precaution, and that Monday morning he was escorted over the Moultrie county line near Dalton City and arraigned on the highway before Justice of the Peace L. Lambrecht After the formality of his arraignment on the charge of rape he was turned over theie to the parole officer and spirited away to Pontiac to finish his sentence for a former crime.nuinAsked Monday noon if Abbott had - atlodged m the county jail in Decatur Sunday night, Sheriff A. C. Wilson answered'“If he was, I didn't know it. In i any event he is not in this Jaileast of Bruce Abbott was in the rar, while the no»-girl, beaten and bleeding liom many i A similar answer was wounds, had been thrown out ontoj from C1*y authorities Mr. Webb and hisireceivedNefirSUJenmithe ground........— ■ __ a __ -party rushed the giil to the Webb TT 11Y1i npfl va#Ia home, where the girl received medi- XlU.ilI X UAVvIUUKfaiit-ts,jelistsldn-1.edorofide he ;io ild i ai—riftce,IshfoeLrdlugeir:h-irdutdllJieNiurreduilfsn-ed-vasthedeem10.-reel 60vascal treatment. \1STRUCK WITH JACK. jApparently she had been struck five times with the car lack, the end of one finger on the left hand had been bitten off and teeth marks of the inhuman attacker were found at other places on her body. The girl was unconscious when found and remained so for some little time, but later in the day lallied and is expected to recover, though still suffering greatly from her terrible experiences.The sheiiffs paity reached the Abbott car shortly after the gill had been found and removed by her father and others. Abbott was still in the automobile, which gave the appearance of a shambles. Shenff Lnnsden stated later he scarcely everjiad seen such a bloody sightThe interior of the car was slimy with blood, while a pool of blood was found on the running board and Abbott, as well as the girl, was covered with gore.FOLLOWED PARTY.Abbott's attack on the Webb gitl followed a party at which they and others, including two older sisters of the girl, had attended at the home of Bert- Kirkendoll, at which there is said to have been several rounds of drinks. Abbott, it is .said, had been wanting to “go with one of the older Webb girls, but his attentions had been discouraged. Leaving the Kirkendoll party, Abbott is said to have followed the Webb girls, who accompanied others on a ride. Finally Abbott, who had been serving as fiddler and caller at the dance at the Kirkendoll home, desisted and disappeared, later reaching the Webb home and abducting the girl from her bed, where she lay asleep.When first taken into custody of the authorities, Abbott declared he had not been drinking, then said he could,, not remember the events of the night and early morning. He appeared to be in a stupor, but showed unmistakeable signs of his bout with the girl, who apparently had put up a stiff fight to repulse his attack. One of her front teeth bad'bqsn knocked out in the fray.The citizens of the community as well 'as others at a greater distance are greatly1 aroused ■ over the affair.- ON PAROLE.Clad RobbersSid Smith and Wife Are Robbed of $50,000.Chicago, June 15-CAP.)— Two luxedo-clad bandits were sought to-flay in the seach fcv the $50,000 worth of Jewelry stolen from Sidney :. Smith, noted cartoonist, and his-oxm:shBT'misitth-thfaspinielilolwife.Homeward bound from a South Side Country ciub ball early yesterday, the Smiths’ sedan was boarded by the bandits as it .stopped lor a Michigan boulevard traffic signal.seintvOne bandit guarded the chauffeurR*tnmsatnwith his pistol. The other Jumped into the tonncau and forced the creator of “Andy Gump” end his wife to surrender all their jewelry, save only Mrs Smith's wedding ring.ESCAPE IN TRAFFIC After turning off the Ignition ol the Smith car and tossing the key on a nearby lawn, the bandits jumped into a trailing automobile and disappeared in traffic.The Smith chauffeur, Chailes Cannon, scanned detective bureau photographs for several hours yesterday and Chief of Detectives John Norton said an arrest was imminent’.The cartoonist rounded up a group of friends for a h014sc pm tv after the holdup, “to celebrate the poccasion,” as he put it.Had Threatened to Kill HerselfTnylorville—Mrs. Ethel Lindsay Roberts, who shot herself through the heai t at the lamlly home in Bulpitt Friday night, had threatened on different occasions to kill herself, according to the statement-of her son, Orlie. at tire inquest conducted by Coroner A. D. Payton.Mrs. Roberts was boin at Sharpsburg For a number of years she was a school teacher. In 1904 she was married to OHe L. Roberts of Edinburg, and since then they have lived at Bulpitt. Besides the husband and son she leaves her mother, Mrs. Frank Lindsay or Sharpsbwg. a sister and brother. Funeral services were held Mon-. dav afternoon * at the Universalis*. Abbott is on parole fiom the re- church. Sharpsburg, with burial in i lonnator* at Pontiac, where be wa*i Horae Creek cemetery.reirirC(tlwInatmbetncctlidlt;hiPlt;it
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Decatur Daily Review
Decatur, Illinois, US
Mon, Jun 15, 1931
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