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)redistillatigsbecp-Girl Attacked By Drove EscoiSouth Portsmouth and vicinity were thrown into a fever of excitement when the news spread tii at Mias Evelyn Brown, a pretty rjx teen-year-old Bcaltyville girl,hail been attacked by a man while on her way home Wednesday evening at 7 o’clock. .. .The attempted assault, for which John Fultz, of this city, * held prisoner in the Portsmouth police station, occurred on the “commons” a short distance below the CT.O. passenger depot.Mias Brown had been to a store in South Fortomonfch and although the moon was shining brightly, began fearing for her 'safety. She asked Charles Edgington, aged 19, a shoeworkcr, who was standing oji the depot platform to escort her home. They started down the tracks and had gotten but a short • distance when a man emerged from behind a box car. Crabbing the girl by the arm and jerking: her aside, he whirled abound to ill front of Edgington and pressing a gun to his breast commanded beat it or I’ll kill you I' Edgington, thoroughly frightened, ran from the scene while the man dragged the girl from the main track, across some sidings hud fully TOO feet to behind a cut of box cars, where she fought desperately to preservo her honor. She had been carrying n crochet nccdlo in liar hand and with this she defended herself, jAbhing him with the sharp point, biting him and screaming whenever he momentarily removed his hand from over her mouth.Edgington meanwhile :had reached the depot, and given the alarm. A crowd started to the rescue of the girl and at its approach the brute released his hold on the girl and disappeared over the river bank. The girl now regained her feet and returned to the track. The spot where she had been thrown to the ground showed evidence of a struggle. Her bat. completely mashed, lay ncarDy. Her face was badly scratched and her throat showed the imprints of her would-be assailant's fingers, he having tried to choke her. Friends now took her to the home of her stepfather, James Thompson, in the lower end of Beattyvilic. Squire James Braden, of Fullerton, was notified.IT© quickly formed a posse and searched the river bank from Fullerton to UealtyviHo. Tie then secured a description of the fellow, and said ho recognized from the same that it was John Fultz, wham he hdd underBrute Who t Away With Gunxrn*t once before for drunkenness oad fighting *t the depot. He asked tli© Portsmouth authorities to issiat in .the search. The 'squire then visited the girl at her homo and after interviewing her secured,her affiJt-vit. charging Fulti with attempt to rope. , .Fultz was arrested by Capt. Roma Walker within thirty minutes after ho got the word. He saw two men walking out Chilliootl* street and thought one of them closely fit'.od the description. They turned east on Third and began quickening their fitepe, but Walker overtook them. They proved to be John Fulti and hit brother, Alvin Fultz. 'Squire BTadeo learned of the capture when he returned to the depot and he brought Edgington to tliia aide. Ed* gingtcai promptly picked out . John Fults as the man.• Oonstaiiie John Williams brought live girl to the police station Thursday morning and she positively identified John Fulte aa the.person who Attacked her! Fultr refused to return to Kentucky without requisition papers, and Constable Williams will leave for Frankfort this afternoon to secure the saine.'Squire Braden aaid a-mob formed at South Portsmouth, and had the girl’s assailant fallen into its hands h© would undoubtedly have been lynched. “Of course, hud my men cuplpured him, vre wauld have avoided violence, for wo had enough in number tu protect him.” Tko ’squire erJd the girl boars ft roost excellent reputation. » —Are hustling Paving WorkOne-half mile of concrete base bee been completed on the additional mile of paving on the West Side by the S. Monroe and Sens company, according to nn an r.ounccment made Wednesday by County Engineer John J. Harper. The concrete work will bo completed by next week. The contractors expect to complete the paving by tho first week in December.DEMOCRATIC TICKETFor President, WOODROW WILSON. -For Vic© President, THOMAS R. MARSHALL.For Governor, JAMffS M. COX-
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Portsmouth Weekly Times
Portsmouth, Ohio, US
Sat, Nov 04, 1916
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