Ogden Daily Standard | 1900-02-23 | Page 8 | Assaulted a Young Girl

ASSAULTED A YOUNG GIRL A NEGRO PURSUED BY A POSSE OF WHITES aberdeen md feb 22 edward dlack colored living near here Is surrounded in a swamp by a crowd of resident white farmers and will doubtless be captured and roughly handled tor an assault said to have been committed by him upon the 16 year old daughter ot edward bradford late yesterday afternoon ter noon the engineer of a passing train saw a negro dragging a white girl into a thicket as his train sped past he cropped off a note at the station and a posse immediately started in the rescuers were too late to prevent the assault but found the victim and carried her home