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Show v Woman's Assailant Is Said To Have Confessed tarnest efforts on the part of Town Marshal William Morris and other citizens interested in keeping Milford a place where women and children may feel safe ot night, however much alone they may be, seem to have been rewarded reward-ed in the apprehension of the man who is alleged to have brutally attacked Mrs. Elva Sedgwick at her home early in the morning of October 28. Alton "Nick" Roberts, who moved mov-ed here from Minersville with his parents some seven or eight years ago and graduated from the local high school in 1937, was arrested late last week by Marshal Morris and is reported to have confessed to the crime when confronted with evidence of the attack , including in-cluding the shirt which was torn from him when Mrs. Sedgwick strenuously resisted the attack, alleged t o have been made at about 2 o'clock in the morning. Her assailant left the house when she cried out, despite demands that she remain quiet under penalty pen-alty of death, and neighbors found her in a state of collapse. In addition to cuts and bruises and a broken rib, for which she was treated at the local hospital, Mrs. Sedgwick suffered sevejwljr from shock and there was fear at one time that she might not re-j cover from the effects of the attack. at-tack. She is feeling better now and ' will leave soon for McGill, Ne-i Ne-i vada, to be with her daughter. Mrs. lone Beckwith, who has spent several days here with her mother. Roberts was taken to the county coun-ty jail at Beaver for keeping, ! pending a hearing. |