Camden Daily Courier, August 22, 1910View transcription
ARREST FOLLOWS LURING OF GIRL
A Nineteen-Year-Old Youth Taken Into Custody on a Serious Charge
HE TELLS A DIFFERENT STORY
Charged with the rape of a 14-year-old girl, Louis Mayer, 19 years old, who lives near Twelfth and Federal streets, was held without bail by Recorder Stackhouse in Police Court this morning, to await extradition papers from the Pennsylvania authorities, where the alleged crime was committed.
The girl in the case, as exclusively told in Saturday's "Courier," is Katherine Corkhill, of 90 Alberta street. The girl disappeared from her home nearly two weeks ago. Word was received that she was seen in the company of three men on several occasions. On Friday night, a letter was received by the parents that the girl was being detained in a house in Philadelphia against her will and to keep her from leaving the house, her clothes had been taken away from her by her jailers.
The Philadelphia police were notified and the girl was released. The names of her capturers were turned over to the police of both Philadelphia and Camden.
On Saturday afternoon Policeman Howard Smith accompanied by Special Policeman Russell, of the Twenty-third and Brown streets station, Philadelphia, saw Mayer, whose name had been furnished them by the girl, at Eleventh and Market streets, Camden, and placed him under arrest.
The boy tells an entirely different story from the girl. He declares that the girl came to him and told him that she had been "tired out of the house" and asked him if he wouldn't take her away from Camden. He says that he took her to a house on Brown street near Eighth and that she was at liberty to come and go as she pleased. Their actions, he declared, had been agreed to by both.
A Nineteen-Year-Old Youth Taken Into Custody on a Serious Charge
HE TELLS A DIFFERENT STORY
Charged with the rape of a 14-year-old girl, Louis Mayer, 19 years old, who lives near Twelfth and Federal streets, was held without bail by Recorder Stackhouse in Police Court this morning, to await extradition papers from the Pennsylvania authorities, where the alleged crime was committed.
The girl in the case, as exclusively told in Saturday's "Courier," is Katherine Corkhill, of 90 Alberta street. The girl disappeared from her home nearly two weeks ago. Word was received that she was seen in the company of three men on several occasions. On Friday night, a letter was received by the parents that the girl was being detained in a house in Philadelphia against her will and to keep her from leaving the house, her clothes had been taken away from her by her jailers.
The Philadelphia police were notified and the girl was released. The names of her capturers were turned over to the police of both Philadelphia and Camden.
On Saturday afternoon Policeman Howard Smith accompanied by Special Policeman Russell, of the Twenty-third and Brown streets station, Philadelphia, saw Mayer, whose name had been furnished them by the girl, at Eleventh and Market streets, Camden, and placed him under arrest.
The boy tells an entirely different story from the girl. He declares that the girl came to him and told him that she had been "tired out of the house" and asked him if he wouldn't take her away from Camden. He says that he took her to a house on Brown street near Eighth and that she was at liberty to come and go as she pleased. Their actions, he declared, had been agreed to by both.
