CHARGED WITH ASSAULT
Item
- Title
- CHARGED WITH ASSAULT
- Source
- Savannah Morning News (GA)
- Date
- 8/17/00
- page
- 6
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/item/sn89053684/1900-08-17/ed-1/.
- Crime
- Rape
- Subject
- Attempted Criminal assault; Young Daughter
- Race of alleged offender
- White alleged offender
- Gender of alleged offender
- Male alleged offender
- Gender of alleged victim
- Female alleged victim
- Stage of the Legal System
- Arraignment
- Location
- Out of State, Tampa FL
- Length of story
- 135
- Description
-
Tampa Herald: Tom Whitehurst, a
young white man who lives near the city,
is in jail on a charge of attempting to
make a criminal assault upon the young
daughter of a man named Hayman, who
lives near College Hill. She says the man
came to her window where she was sleeping. with the window open, and took hold
of her. He told her if she screamed he
would kill her, but she called and the
man ran away. She reported the matter
to her father, saying she recognized the
man fully in the bright moonlight. The
arrest was made and the young man is
now being held to answer the charge. The
preliminary hearing is set for one week
from to-morrow. Harrris Peeplee have
been engaged to defend the young man in
the trial.