An Attempt to Outrage a Prominent Lady - The Forerunner of the Expiation- She routs Both of Her Assailants with a Pistol- The Chase and Capture- One Still at Large
Item
- Title
- An Attempt to Outrage a Prominent Lady - The Forerunner of the Expiation- She routs Both of Her Assailants with a Pistol- The Chase and Capture- One Still at Large
- Source
- Savannah Morning News (GA)
- Date
- 1883-08-28
- page
- 1
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82015137/1883-08-28/ed-1/.
- Crime
- Rape
- Subject
- Attempted Rape; Two Assailants; Respectable Women
- Race of alleged offender
- Black alleged offender
- Gender of alleged offender
- Male alleged offender
- Race of alleged victim
- White alleged victim
- Gender of alleged victim
- Female alleged victim
- Law enforcement involved
- Police, Mob
- Stage of the Legal System
- Extralegal
- Location
- In State, Bainbridge GA
- Length of story
- 274
- Description
-
Bainbridge, G a., August 27.—0n Tues
day night last at a quiet house near Col
quitt, in Miller county, two villainous
negroes, named Lewis Warren and Frank
Fountain, attempted the most revolting
crime known in criminal annals, the
rape ot one of the most respectable and
estimable white ladies in that countv. It
appears that tlie lady's husband was
absent from home engaged in running a
threshing machine, and that on the night
indicated these villains, knowing of his
absence and of iier consequent helpless
condition, stole into the house and her
bedchamber for the purpose of violating
her person, and then, probably, murder
ing her. The touch of the villains, how
ever, awoke the lady, but not before the
attempt was made to accomplish their
purpose.
The lady had, fortunately, placed a re
volver under her head, and reaching this,
she presented it at their heads and pulled
the trigger. This put them to flight, but
not before she had recognized them.
>he tired several shots at the retreating
demons. Daylight soon *-auie, and she
told her neighbors of the outrage, and a
vigorous pursuit was organized. This
pursuit continued until Sunday, when
Louis Warren w as caught, brought back,
and lodged in jail. The posse continued
their search for Fountain. On Sunday
night, however, a crowd of armed men
overpowered the guard, broke open the
jail, and shot Lewis Warren to death.
1 he negro killed was aged about 17 years,
and lived oil the place of the gentleman
whose wife he attempted to outrage at the
t ime. His mulatto accomplice, Fountain,
lived on an adjoining plantation, and was
about 21 years old.