Show WITH INTENT TO RAPE Jack Skcwcs Under Arrest on a Sc rions Charge Jack Skewes is the name of a man who wH have a hearing before Judge I Wenger this afternoon on a charge of assault with intent to commit rape preferred pre-ferred against him by Maggie Brown The circumstances under which Skewes got into trouble according to Maggies story are about a follows Skewes in company with another man who is booked at headquarters a John Simons came t the Brown house on State street between Third and Fourth South late Wednesday night Both were under the influence of liquor particu larly Simons A short time afterwards the police raided the place and took Mrs Brown the girls mother and old 0 4 Susan Tullidge to the police station for I keeping a house of prostitution Skewes in some way evaded the officers and returned re-turned to the house after the women had been taken away Maggie who is probably sixteen years of age says Skewes made improper proposals to her to which she objected Then he attempted to use violence when in company with I a younger sister she escaped and ran out on the sidewalk where she told her experience to a policeman The officer went inside and found that Skewes had locked himself in a room After some preliminaries pre-liminaries the door was forced open and Skewes taken to the calaboose The case was called in police court yesterday but the defendant wanted an attorney and the case was postponed until today Skewes does not care to talk about the affairs but the intimation was drawn from his remarks that he went there as he would to any other house of prostitution pros-titution He denies that he had any intention girlMrs in-tention of laying violent hands on the I Mrs Brown the mother of the girl was fined 40 for keeping a house of ill fame and lr Tullidge will spend the next 20 days in jail for resorting t the same Peter Cooper called out Prosecutor Shoup when the list of drunks were reached No one responded Thats you added the clerk as he I pointed to one of Uncle Sams bluecoats I on the prisoners bench Whats your right name demanded I the judge as the dissipatedlooking solder sol-der came forward I I Karris your honor was the response re-sponse Mr Harris you are charged with being I drunk What is your plea guilty or not I guilty Well your honor if I am charged with f it must be so I dont know whether Ive been drunk or not I Are you sober now i Yes sir Im sober And your honor I wish you would let me go Ive got I to serve in the guard house now anyway and tears began to trickle down the I fighters cheek j AS Harris hadnt been before this I court before he was allowed to go and i he lost no time in making his exit The case of E Fames charged with I obtaining money fraudulently has been transferred t the county M Eisemans case growing out of alleged al-leged poisoning of a dog has been dismissed I dis-missed |