Show BARELY SAVED FROM LYNCHING Negro Assaults ts a Leavens Lea ens wurth Woman I BELIEVED GUILTY OF MURDER ALSO i iI I Officers Got Man Maii Away Awny Just in Time lC 4 Leaworth KM Jn 12 n nEa Ea Eva Roth Both a well known young you woman of this city was wag assaulted on oa South Broadway the fashionable residence street of the tile city at I 4 p m in by Fred Alexander colored who had bad followed her h r for a distance of twelve blocks and who Is Ii believed to be the murderer of Pearl Peart Fortes Forbes Alexander Alexan r failed to ac accomplish his Ia object was wan shortLy after the occurrence and end taken to t the office oice of the chief of police which was quickly by an 8 angry an I mob numbering nearly DeUly ie 1 breathing threats of vengeance A lynching ing was averted only by b slipping the prisoner oner away Miss Mise Roth is employed at one ne of ot the tile large stores storm and wa wan wa going home to II hr T supper She soon moo became aware ware that she he wa was followed and within a afew afew few lew blocks of home entered a neighbor neighboring ing log house hoWie for fot f r the purpose of throwing t I the he lie man off lt lf her h h track Alexander kept Ui n ll and Mis Roth th again started home and ind when at a point nearly rl opposite 1 i he residence of Professor Evans of at th thu High school chool sh al was met by Alexander who ho Seized seised her around arond the throat and bore lore her to the ground In falling his Ills lingers fingers Upped slipped from her throat long enough to enable her he to give ghe a cry for 4 help hll This cry was was heart heard by Professor t Evans ians who responded when the as assailant assailant ailant left the girl irl and ned fled fledA nedA nedA A crowd had bad gathered among them thema who the u a L young joung oun colored girl rl who told assailant was IJ 1 e t police were notified and Officer McDonald sent Bent out When at a t Seventh and Cherokee streets the th thI fleer I saw Alexander The negro at attempted attempted tempted to escape but a blow from the officers I club reduced him to submission when hen he was taken to the station sews News of the attempted assault spread rapidly and in a few moments the streets around the station were filled with excited men determined to lynch Alexander The police poll in the meantime the man way and when the doors were broken open no one was Alexander was wu taken out through an alleyway placed in a hack and driven to the Kansas Kan as state Mate Den at Lansing He will be kept there until the officers deem It safe to bring brin him to LO the Miss Roth re her assailant and identified him to the officers Alexander has been watched by b the police lately as he is 18 the SUH ted of f Miss Mi s Pearl Forbes who was assaulted and killed Nov No 6 S three blocks blocki jest Aest of the scene ene of attempt |