A Narrow Escape on the Reservation

One of those crimes which are occasionally developed to shock a community and undermine faith in human nature recently came to the ears of The Herald. Mr. and Mrs. Nevada Lillie, with several children, live on the reservation. While Mrs. Lillie was in this city last week, visiting friends, Mr. Lillie heard an unusual noise in the room of his eight-year-old daughter and looking in found that a man employed about the place, who had been given the privilege of sleeping in the house, had gotten into bed with the little girl and was bent on outraging her. Mr. Lillie stepped back to get his shotgun and the brute in human form, realizing he was discovered, jumped out of the window in his night clothes and escaped. Mr. Lillie made an effort to end the fellow's worthless life but the gun failed to respond, the cartridges having been previously extracted. Prosecuting Attorney Rochford and Sheriff Simmons are cognizant of the facts but they have been endeavoring to keep the matter quiet. It is said that the fugitive was seen at Goldendale a few days later.