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Show GIRL IDENTIFIES HER ASSAILANT San Francisco Motorman Is Arrested Charged With Midnight AttacK on Miss Ethyle Hergaton. SAN FRANCISCO. April 22. Alvin Eddy Ed-dy of 1102 Fillmore street, a motorman on the Fillmore street line, was arrested yesterday and positively Identified later by Miss Ethyle Hergaton as the man who had beaten her nearly to death at midnight mid-night last Friday. Ostensibly leading her to the house at 115 Point Lobos avenue. Into which her mother had moved that day, he enticed her out Masonic avenue and there choked her and pounded her face until she was unrecognizable when she resisted him. He bears teeth marks on his Angers. Eddy declares he is not guilty and asserts he can establish an alibi. Besides the identification by Miss Hergaton and the marks of teeth on Eddy's Ed-dy's fingers, the police have obtained still further -evidence against Eddy. This evidence was given by Bert Val-erga Val-erga and William C. Smith, both United Railroads carmen living in a Geary street refugee camp. They - saw a man leave the Fillmore street car Friday night; they saw him board the Geary street car with Miss Hergaton, and they say positively that that man was Alvin Eddy. They called at the city jail yesterday and picked, him out. |