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same age. The dastardly villain first bought some candy and grapes and then enticed these little girls into his. room, which is room 3, in the Doherty building, on 'West Main street. After arming at his room, the brute sent the little Lewis girl back home and took the little Sax girl into his room, where he committed an assault upon her that was so brutal and fiendish as to be almost beyond belief, The little girl was finally released and went home, when she told her parents of what had happened, The police were at once notified- Capt. Dan Hannon took the little Lewis girl with him to show him the room, and accompanied bj Mr. Sax went to the room and arrested Johnson and took him to jail.The Democrat account, from which the above is taken, says that *\ Johns on is a big, burly brute, and says he is 22 years old. He came to this city last Friday from St. Paul, and had been working at Aberdeen, Dak.'*Dr. Spdnan and Dr. Baker were called to Bee the little girl, who is only a little more than a baby, and one of them Btated that it would be little less than a miracle if the little girl lived.The awfillness of the crime set the good people of Ottumwa into a formant, and on Tuesday afternooon, in a way that was soverigu and swift, they took the wretch and hung him. The Courier tells the story in thie graphic way:‘The expectations of s number ofpeople that trouble would occur this afternoon at the preliminary trial of the fiend who committed the assault upon the 4-year-old daughter of Jonas Sox, were not deceived. The news got out that the prisoner was to be brought out for trial at Justice Truitt’s court about 2 o'clock, and a casual observer could not notice that anything was wrong with the few innocent looking persons, who stood on the corner about this time; but a close observer could tell, that though not excited or wild, there were Bome who were pale and de term me d_ Soon, down Main street came Constable Drown with Ms prisoner, and behind him was Deputy Sheriff .Tim Gray and Marshal Gephart, When they arrived at the justice’s perhaps not over twenty-live people were congregated. When they started up stairs, at the head were a number of persons, among them the aged grandfather of the assaulted and, perhapB, murdered
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Oskaloosa Herald
Oskaloosa, Iowa, US
Thu, Nov 23, 1893
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