Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1901 — ARRESTED FOR RAPE. [ARTICLE]

ARRESTED FOR RAPE.

Irvin Lewis, the 18-year-old son of John Lewis of Barkley tp., was arrested Monday eveniug and arraigned before Esq. Troxell on the charge of having committed rape upon the person of Myrtle Fay, the 17-year-old daughter of James Fay of near Aix. The crime is alleged to have been committed on the way home from church the evening before. The Fay girl and a younger girl by the name of Steele, were being accompanied home by Lewis in tbe latter’s buggy. At a loti ley spot, the girls claim, Lewis stopped the horse and dragged the Fay girl from the buggy. The horse took fright, they allege, and ran nearly a half a mile before the Steele girl succeeded in stopping it. She at once returned to the scene, but Lewis is alleged to have accomplislnxl his purpose, ere her return, using considerabe force ineo doing

Lewis, on the other hand, claims, so we understand, that there were two couples in the buggy and that the girl got out of her own free will and wa9 a willing victim, while the other couple drove on some distance further before stopping for a like purpose. The truth of this statement together with thqt of the charge upon which he was arrested will probably be brought out in the case when it comes to trial. The court bound Lewis over to the circuit court in the sum of SSOO. He remained in jail Monday night but Tuesday morning his father furnished bail and he was released. The proceeding of the lower court was alleged to be illegal regarding the binding over, and a warrant waß issued by the circuit court and Lewis was re-arrested Wednesday and bound over to the November term under S6OO bonds, with his father and Sam English as sureties.