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Show Metroes Allami to Assaalt Iowa Ulrl. White going to Sunday school Sun day morning. Ada Ware, a aixteen-year-old daughter of a farmer residing between Valley Junction and Commerce, Com-merce, near les Moines. Iowa, was as- . saulted by a gang of negroes and carried into the weeds. After most of her clothing had been torn from her body the girl escaped. Scratched and bleeding and nearly naked, she ran to her father s home aliout half a mile distant and told her parent of the outrage. Tbe father, J. W. Ware, and his hired man. armed with shotguns, started on, a search for the negroes. Two colored men, believed to be a part of the gang, were found and tnsell to (he V.,-i,y .Gin. f .-n jail Miss Ware l-.-s. iv. K h- - - 1. .1 one of the ncgr.H-s - '- 1 s ,,,, jj,. jiTes his name a-s Seymour Washington, and is a stranger to the community. He was bound over to the grand jurv to await j j saull. The negro was brought to Ies Moines for safe keeping. |
