Show I BURLY BUCK BLACK ASSAilS GIRL Struggles Desperately to Free Herself from Him While By Bystanders Bystanders standers Fear to Help Her SALT LAKE Dec 24 After a des los struggle little Myrtle l 1 yrtle Crowther aged age 10 years ears the daughter of George GeQrge M il II Crowther a laborer Thing ahIng at aL 2 J West est Seventh South saved sned herself an assault by a big black irian nui n with Ith a curly curl black mustache about C G ocl ck last night on tho corner corum of Ninth South and Third West Wes streets Her assailant Jed U d her hor hands han H behind her and nn forced a handkerchief Jn in n her mouth but noticing that he was bong being observed by 1 several persons too frightened to approach him he pre pretended pretended pretended tended drunkenness dru and wandered wan away awn The police wore sere summoned and De Do Ed Janney and Earl Ripley RIlley responded to tho thu call In the police chiefs h automobile A thorough th search wa was made of the blocks but no trace of tho man could be found The rhe little girl told her hm experience to the tho detectives She waS returning return Ins from tho thio store with her hOI two younger sisters when tho man approached and I asked to be uc directed to the till cement I works She sent the smaller girls I home IJ me with the while she started to lo show the th ih stranger tho the way to the cement works As as her companions were out of e sight he seized selzer her placing a handkerchief In I her mouth and Und tied her hei hands bands behind her with a stout cor He took her herto herto to a rubbish pile ihle In a vacant lot The Thu girl irl noticed some persons passing so soshe soshe she began a desperate struggle in which she broke tho the cords and freed her hands hantIs The man became fright rIght frightened ened and vanished n tho the darkness B BI While Investigating the tho case tho thio I detectiveS found persons who saw tho the thoman thoman theman man and girl together and also a It man who witnessed the struggle but wa vas afraid to Interfere for or fear ear of or being shot I |