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Show HE SMITHFIELD RAPE CASE. Though we made earnest efforts to obtain the facts of this affair for Tuesday's Journal, we were only partially successful. The crime was committed on Friday. The little girl who was the victim said her assailant rode a pinto horse, and this was the most definite clue to his identify she could give. A stranger travelling through that part of the county, named Austin Gee, who lives in Tooele, and who rode a pinto horse, was arrested in Weston on Saturday. On the following Tuesday he was examined before Justice Gooch of Richmond, County Attorney W. W. Maughan, Esq., appearing for the prosecution. On first confronting him the little girl said he was not the man who did the deed. The circumstance that he rode a pinto horse through that part of the county about the time the crime was committed, while it served to fasten suspicion upon him, was not strong enough to hold him, and, there being no further evidence against him, he was discharged. |