GEORGIA AFFAIRS
Item
- Title
- GEORGIA AFFAIRS
- Source
- Savannah Morning News (GA)
- Date
- 1881-06-14
- page
- 1
- Identifier
- https://lccn.loc.gov/sn82015137
- Crime
- Rape
- Subject
- Rape; 4 year old
- Race of alleged offender
- Black alleged offender
- Gender of alleged offender
- Male alleged offender
- Gender of alleged victim
- Female alleged victim
- Law enforcement involved
- Sheriff
- Stage of the Legal System
- Arrest
- Location
- In state, Rome GA
- Length of story
- 99
- Description
-
Rome Bulletin, 11th instant; “Yesterday
bl rf Matins lodged in jail Tom Cooper, a
colored boy about fifteen years of age. who is
charged with rape. It appears that the boy
engaged on the farm of Joseph Defore.
livings, me eight miles from Rome, and that
he led a little four-year-old daughter of his
employer into the yard and made an attempt
this- terrible crime. His attempt was
thwarted by some fortunate circumstances,
the details of which it is not proper to give here,
*s a jury will probably investigate and pass
upon the case in a few days.”