| CANNELTON ENQUIRER & REPORTER Saturday, 3 September 1887 Clay Davis "(sic), the Oil township rapist is now languishing in jail in this city awaiting the November term of the Perry County Circuit court, when he will be triad for a crime the punishment for which under the law of this state is imprisonment in the state’s prison not more than twenty one years nor less than five. The father of the girl who was brutally outraged seams not to be taking any very important steps toward bringing this villain to justice, but the good citizens of oil township, and some over the in the edge of Crawford County raised a reward for Davis’ capture. Davis knowing he could not escape the officers of justice very long, contrived to slip back to the old neighborhood and hold a secret consultation with his step-brother (sic), one Enlow, and he agreed with Enlow to give himself and receive on half of the reward. They both left that neighborhood together and went to Rockport, and Davis was placed in jail, where he remained until the Sheriff of this county brought him here and placed him in jail where he now is. John Flanagan, the girls father, is a man in good circumstances financially, and it is on account of his inactivity to the prosecution of Davis that the people are to certain extent losing the sympathy they had when the crime was first committed, but on account of the interest they have for the community at large, and to protect their own wives and daughters they are anxious for an example be made of this brute which will be warning to all man of like character in the future, which will surely be done if he is vigorously and properly prosecuted. Nov 9, 1887 – Clay Davidson guilty and sentenced to 21 years in penitentiary. ------------------ My Entry - Full name: Samuel Clay Davidson |
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