Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1904 — PROBABLY A WHITE MAN [ARTICLE]

PROBABLY A WHITE MAN

Besides There Is Some Mystery About That Alleged Atrocity Down at Evansville, Ind. Evansville. Ind., June 28.—Harry Smythe, an express messenger, complained to the police authorities, that while escorting Miss Clura Weiubaeh to her home, he was attacked by a negro at the Chandler avenue school building and driven away, after which tbe young woman was raped. The authorities acted quickly, but were unable»to get trace of the alleged assailant, and finally settled to the conclusion that a jealous rival was at fault, and that the alleged assailant was not a negro and not unknown to the principals. Rumors of intense excitement, or of a disposition to evoke lynch law, so freely bruited in the sensational press, are entirely without foundation.