Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1904 — Criminal Assault Charged. [ARTICLE]

Criminal Assault Charged.

According to statements made and sworn to here Friday evening, a very serious < ffense whs committed at Kersey, Friday morning. John P. Levi and his 13 year old motherless daughter, were the oomplainiag parties. Tney live ' about three quarters of a mile from Kersey with bis married son. Fri day morning, aooording to their story, they sent the girl Edith, to the grooery store, at Kersey. On the way she passed the shop and round house of B. J. Gifford’s railroad, whioh orosses the Three I. at Kersey. One Bert Knight, who works in the round-house saw the girl as she came along and stopped to the door and began talking to her, and then asked her to oome inside. This aooording to the girl’s story she refused to do, and she says he seized and forced her inside, looked the door, and committed a forcible assault. Then ho went out, looked her in, and sent another young man Frank Wallace, into the shop, who repeated the same felonious act and leaving the girl still locked up. The girl end her father at once came to Rensselaer and wairants were sworn out for Knight and Wallace before Squire TroxelL Late in the evening Officer Vick and Marshal Abbott left to undertake the arrest of the accused men. The girl was in a sad state of nervonsaees and grief, while here, but otherwise seemed not grea‘ly injured. ~ The officers succeeded in capturing one of the men, Wallace, who is a blacksmith, and who they lodged in jail here at three o'olook this afternoon. They got only one glimpse of the other, Knight, as he was running at full speed through a tall oorn field. Wallace denies all oharges