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Show I mi- Aged Nan Charged II With Awful Crime 4' it M i , If , :h 1 I' , i i Used His Daughter as a Decoy to i ;! ''ii ' j; J f j, Lure a Young Girl to His I' 'j' Home. jj'tji' 'jl!!' Spcolal to Tho Tribune. I: i'MIHs rt UTTE. Mont., June 24. The trial 'H'rlfy! K of Michael J. A. Ryan, for the ' ll-' f ' i tf X$ CI,nie oC c1'1"!11 nssnult upon the liih) I KM person of Mabel Vaughn Hicks, 1( 1' l "a 13 years old, was commenced In Vip 'l the District court today before Judge I 'ft 'j I'l'iji'' McClernan. Tho story of Mabel Hlcks's t MjJ jfy, wrongs at the hands of a man who Is j S';' i' old enough to be her grandfather Is-a ? ; ' !j pitiful and revolting one, and. If true, -Pi; describes one of the most dastardly out- H, hi. I. rages ever perpetrated In any commu- i ( '? '4K' nltv. J'J ,'. In outlining what the State Intended Ml . 1 i 'if to prove County Attorney Breon said f ' K that tlic State purposed to show that Ii, y v Michael J. A. Ryan, who is over CO I,', ' vears of age, had been guilty o as- ' ' 'V naultlng the girl for a period lasting id (,t ;V over thirteen months, and that he used ,J kf" P his daughter, a girl about the same ,' R' nge as, the Hicks girl, as a decoy, to ' ' 7iJ i. Jm lure tovlctlm to his house. "Not only i ,h . did he accomplish this once, but time i and again sent his own little daugh- . ' -) ter to the Hicks home to lure his rlc- I1 , tlm to his abode, and there was guilty ii "( of this crime." ' - 1 j Ryan was arrested on complaint of j I 1 1 j his daughter, AVho confessed to offl- (I , cers the story ot her father's dlabol- 1 1 leal wrong after he had beaten her. (I ' i ; --Threats of lynching have caused extra )' I, A, precautions being taken to guard the j, 'm J; prisoner. |