Show AN ALLEGED RAPE A Pair Caught ftlatrrantc SJcIIcto in a Lumber Yard Shortly before 12 oclock on Saturday night a man passing the Sierra Nevada lumber yards noticed a young man and air a-ir sitting upon a pile of lQmber in dulgiag in little tendernesses such a pure affection would not warrant Noticing No-ticing the man coming the two absconded to another part of the yard and disappeared disap-peared behind a pile of lumber The observer j ob-server thought their actions suspicious and going to the spot a little while later I with a nightwatchman they found the young couple flagrante ddiclo The girl was crying but so far as could be seen there was no struggle The watchman arrested the young fellow fel-low and took him to the City Hall The girl appeared this afternoon in the Police Court and it was stated that she had preferred a cdarge of rape against the young man but whether or not this is so could not be learned At any rate the young man is still in jai and he will come up for a hearing tomorrow at 2 pm The man is George Taylor a 21y ar old son of Stephen Taylor and a painter by profession The girl is Millie George who resides in the Fourteenth ward on First South street West She i about 19 years of age tall and dark and not a bad looking I look-ing girl I is said that Taylor had been keeping company with the girl for sometime some-time past and it is even stated that they were engaged to be married There was talk about thecourt this afternoon of a compromise on a matrimonial basis but whether anything of this kind will be I done remains to be seen From Taylors vsrsion of the affair it would seem that it was nothing more or less than a case of seduction Some of Taylors friends say that they saw him on the street at about 10 oclock Saturday night and that he had evidently evi-dently been drinking I is supposed that he met the girl shortly afterward took her for a moonlight stroll etc etc So far as can be learned neither party pretends to deny the occr T and the only question now remain u the title of the offense |