Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1888 — Rape of the Lock. [ARTICLE]

Rape of the Lock.

An unknown man assailed Mrs. William J. Miller in her cottage at Beading, Pa., threw her to the floor, and, while she was unconscious from fright, cut off her hair close to the scalp, and decamped with his prize. Mrs. Miller’s tresses were of a beautiful brown color, and twenty-three inches in length.