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Show IAN BRUTALLY ASSAULTS dill Salt Lake, Dec. 26. Broakinf 1 heavy 6tring which bound her hat and struggling desperately, Mjt Crowther, 10 years old, daughter Ceorge M. Crowther, a laborer, llvl at 272 West Seventh Bouth etroet. e ceeded In escaping from "a big m with a curly black mustache, w was attempting to assault her on rubbish heap near Ninth South a Third West streets, about 6:30 o'clc J Friday night. I Tho girl's ansallant fcUTieJ drus ennese and lay on the pU of rubbL while a score of men and worn ' watched him from a dlatAnce, app ently too much frightened to take b in charge. When the crowd bad ! persed the stranger quickly dlsi peared, When the girl broke from the m she tore away a handkerchief whl had been tied over hor mouth a screamed for help. Hearing her tei fled cries, persons living In the clnlty rushed to her and carried I Into a house. In a few mlnntea, wh the child had related her story, s wa taken home and thn police w notified. I Pol'ce on Trail. f Detectives Ed Janney and Earl R ley and Chauffeur Walter GrlMn sponged to the call in the police cble automobile. Many blocks of that s tlon of the city were searched, but trace of the "big man with the cur ,nirstache could bo found. To the el tectlves the little girl told or her e perle-Qce Myrtle and her two younger s! tors had gone to the Lucas stor Eighth South and Second West 6trett to get something rur supper. The had walked about a block on their w-i home from the atore. when the 6tra3 man approached them, and after wli ing the little trio a merry' Chrlstma a-.Ved Myrtle to show him the way the cement works, about three bloc-west. bloc-west. The older sister expressed willingness to direct tho man. Sj sent her elsters home. Gage and Binds Girl. When the two younger girls Yio got out of tight, the man drew : handkerchief from his pocket and t!e It over the Klrl's mouth. Thpn hp to.. from another pocket a stout p!oc; 0 cord and tied tho child's hancis It front of ber. The i-nly word he fit were "Ccme on." nnd with that com 1 nnd he grabbed the girl by the ar:i and pushed and dragged her In th direction of Ninth South and Thlr West streets. The two passed a number of me: and women, who lookel at them s ts plciously, .Myrtle says, but no om attempted to asulst the chili. One man laughed, the little girl avers. As they neured the rubbish pile the ; man picked Myrtlo up In his arms nnd ran with her. Sho waa thrown down with such violence that she was al-uost al-uost rendered unconscious. Fights Desperately. In tho struggle that followed the child fought desperately and, when almost al-most overcome with fear and fatigue, manager to loosen her hands. She rolled off the pile and run up the street, calling loudly for help. In their investigation the detectives learned that a man living nearby, whose name was not taken, wltEe-ssf'l the struggle. He Is afterward said to have admitted that he was afraid to irterferc- lest he be shot. The child fcald ho had mt Ft n the man before that she remembers of. She de-serlbeu hlra as being lark'e, ot middle age and having a "curly bloc's mustache." |