AN IMMIGRANT GIRLS RUIN
Item
- Title
- AN IMMIGRANT GIRLS RUIN
- Source
- Savannah Morning News (GA)
- Date
- 1885-07-08
- page
- 1
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82015137/1885-07-08/ed-1/.
- Crime
- Rape
- Subject
- Rape; immgrant;
- Gender of alleged offender
- Male alleged offender
- Gender of alleged victim
- Female alleged victim
- Stage of the Legal System
- Trial
- Location
- Out of State, York St NY
- Length of story
- 105
- Description
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New York, July 7.—Timothy McCarthy, keeper of u notorious den In York
street, was this evening convicted of rape
In the General Sessions Court. Catharine Burrows, an immigrant who arrived
in New York In January, was the complaint. The woman said that McCarthy promised to employ her, and, after inducing her to go to his place, seduced
her. He also promised to marry her, and
when she took a stand for rights she
was locked up in a room and kept there
lor several days. Filially she attracted
the attention of some neighbors who were
on the roof of their bouse, and was liberated.