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Show RAPE AT PAYSOU Eapisfc Came Nearly Beiiig Lynched Last Night, CHAS. E. BOOTH HIS NAME HoIbNow In the County Jail Awaiting: the Action of tho Grand Jury Mrs. Frei.aWidow.His Victim The Sprinff-ville Sprinff-ville Burgrlers Also in Jail Charles E. Booth, a young man of Salem is lying in the county jail in default de-fault of $SU0.O0 on a most serious charge, and undoubtedly feeling lucky that he is still alive and safe in jail, for he miraculously escaped being the victim of a lynching bee at Pavson las! night. The story goes that Booth attended a masquerade ball at Pay60n on Monday Mon-day night and on going home in the early hours of Tuesday morning be knocked on the back door of a house in the outskirts of Payson in which waBMrs. EosinaErei, a widow, and four children, the oldest a girl aged twelve. Mrs. Fxei arose and went to the door to see who was there. She found the man had already entered the house. A scuffle ensued and Both accomplished ac-complished his iieiheu utfaigu the crime of rape was committed. The woman'B screams, together with those o( her childron brought help, but not until the fiend escapod,Hia hat was left and by that he was identified. The officers found him afe hiB home in Salom in bed. Yesterday he was taken before Justice Jus-tice Bennett at Payson and there pleaded guilty and was placed under $800.00 bonds which he could not give. Citizens ot Payson became incensBQ and a number congregated about the jail last night determined, it seemed, to lynch the prisoner. He was horrihly frightened and made such an outcry that more people were attracted to tho jail, among them the officers, who aucceeded in quieting and dispersing the angry men. City Marshal Ballard brought the prisoner to Provo today. Booth Bays he has no remembrance of committing the crime, that he was very drunk at the time. Mrs -Frei is sufferinc greatly from many bruises she recoived in the Bcufllo and from the ureat exertion she made to free herecelt fiom the clutches of her beastly, lustful assailant, and is said to bo in a yery critical condition. The fiend struck here with his fist m the mouth and over the head and horribly hor-ribly wrenched her body and lacerated her ilesh in many places. TBAMTS IN JAIL. James Stanley and "W. "W. Baker, are the names of the two tramps who had their trial for stealing merchandise at Springville yesterday, mention of which wa3 made by The Dispatch last evening. They are now in the county jail serving out a 50days' sentence sen-tence each. |
