Salt Lake Herald | 1896-01-12 | Page 2 | Kansas Negro Fiend

KAJSAS NtttKO FIEND Assaults n Woman 18 Successsfnlly Repulsed and He Ten Sets Fire < o Her Clothing WICHITA Kan Jan 11A special received here at midnight says that at 1 oclock an unknown negro attempted at-tempted to rape Mrs Frank Hicks at Oklahoma CIty r Hicks is the daughter of Marion Rock the well know Oklahoma historian and literary woman Mrs Hicks was assaulted by the negro in a closet but he was unable un-able to accomplish his fiendish purpose and he set fire to her clothing and when hem arrived in response to her screams s was so badly burned that doctors have no hopes of her recovery Sheriff Ford has sent to Youkon a dozen miles distant for bloodhounds to put on the trail of the rapist I caught he will be hung and perhaps burned at the stke as the people are greatly ex