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Show BENNETT IN A BOX. The Serious Charge Upon Which a Plasterer Was Arrested After Struggle. A burly young plasterer named Sara Bennett is a prisoner at the police station sta-tion today under a most serious charge. In fact there are three charges against him, assault and battery, resisting an officer and attempted rape. 1 Bennett lives in the neighborhood of (J street at tho intersection of Seventh North. The corner house is occupied by Samuel L. Griffiths, an employe at Jennings' ranch. Mr. Grilliths family comprises several children, tho eldest being a little girl of 13, the daughter of his wife by a previous marriage, her name being Jennie Williams. Last night the little girl, as is her custom, went to bed with the other children in a back room, closing the door but not locking it. The night being warm she took a quilt from the bed and laid it on the floor and on this she lay down to rest. About 11 o'clock Mr. Grilliths, who had been to Park City during the day and whose return was not known even to his family, from his bed in an inner room heard the child frantically calling for help,- Ho rushed out to the other apartment and encountered Bennett with his clothing disarranged ami his general appearance demoralizing struggling strug-gling with the little girl who lay on the floor near the door. lie at once leaped upon him' but Bennett was too strong for him and was badly worsting him when Mrs. Grilliths appeared and lent a hand in the melee. The three were still struggling when Otiieer Bickner hurried up and placed Bennett under arrest. Even then he fought with the policeman for his liberty, but Officer Gates coming to the assistance of his comrade they landed tho man in tho "black maria" and hustled him off to jail. The little girl says that the first she knew of Bennett's presenco was when she awoke from her sleep to find his hands upon her person. She cried for her father but lie told hersho better not as Mr. Grilliths was not at home. "Y ou'll see if ho isu't," she said, and called ngain, summoning her parents to her assistance. Bennett told her to keep still and he promised to give her money, when her parents came to her rescue: Bennett told a Times reporter that (he house was a questionable one, and that he had frequently visited it for immoral im-moral purposes. . He said ho was so drunk that he did not know what ho was doing but he is sure that he committed com-mitted no such offence us that charged. The reputation of the Grilliths family docs not bear out auy such defence as this. They are respected by all their neighbors and have lived in the house for twelve months past. Bennett was placed under $1500 bonds and is held for trial Monday. |