Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1905 — A HEINOUS CRIME ATTEMPTED. [ARTICLE]

A HEINOUS CRIME ATTEMPTED.

Monday ni£ht one Ray Kellenberger, a young mart of about 19 or 20 years old, was brought to town and placed in jail, by Chas. Pete grlne, a - t nstab ~ a I warrant issued by Squire 0. ’Wd Bussell, of Hangi n g GrOve. It seems that Sunday about noon Kellenberger went to the home of John Wheeler, at Lewiston, on the Gifford road, and about .two miles north of Pleasant Grove, and found | their two little girls, Dessie aged nine and Rosa aged 7, whom their mother had left to take care of the baby, while she stepped out to a neighbor’s. Kellenberger, finding the little girls unprotected made an/indecent proposal to the older one, and tried to seize her, but she escaped out of the door and ran screaming for help. Kellehlierger then seized the little girt and threw her down but was frightened away before he had inflidted any worse injuries than tearing the little '♦one’s clothing. He was arrested at noon Monday by Charles E. IPeregrine, of Hanging Grove, who was appointed a special constable by Squire Bussell. He had a hearing before the Squire Monday, find by him was held to the cirdttit court, and was brought to tow® and lodged in jail that night. An affidavit charging assa | ttlt : with intent to commit rape has been’filed by Dept. Prosecuting Attorney Leopold. Kellenberger has lived near Pleasant Grove and Lewiston for some yeans, and previously lived around Lee. He is said ’to be no very bright mentally.