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Serious Charge Again at a Pennsyl vanian,—William A. Trogier, a wealthy farmer living near Mercersburg, Pa, and about fifty years of age, had been paying attention for over twelve months to Lillie Bell Rabeck, who is seventeen years old and the daughter of John Rabeck, of Clearspring district. On the fifth of the present month he offered to take her to his home and marry her the following day, but her parents would not consent to such an arrangement. On the day after making this proposition he obtained her parents signatures to an application for a marriage license, which he procured the same day in Chambersburg, Miss Rubeck going there with him. Although he now had a license, Trogier took the young girl, who is said to be quite handsome, to his home without marrying her. Here she was kept in close confinement and treated most shamefully. Just one week later she escaped and ar rived at four o'clock on Sunday morning at her father’s home a raving maniac, having walked ten miles through the stormy night, all alone. In lucid intervals she told the story of her shame and the brutal treatment to which she had been subjected. Last Friday her father and his brother, David Rubeck, went armed to Trogler’s home to demand that he make good his promise to marry the girl. With drawn revolvers they compelled him to go before Mr. Slick, a magistrate at Mercersburg. Here Trogler charged the Rubecks with unlawful arrest and threatening to kill him, and they were committed to jail. The last developments in the sad case are that suit has been brought against Trogier in Franklin county in the name of Lillie Bell Rubeck, by her next friend John Rubeck, claiming five thousand dollars damages for breach of promise to marry. O. C. Bowers and W. Rush Gillan are counsel for the plantiff. Judge Stewart ordered a capias to be issued for the arrest of Trogler, whose bail is fixed at one thousand dollars.
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Hagerstown Herald and Torch Light
Hagerstown, Maryland, US
Thu, Jan 31, 1889
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