Whitman County Gazette - Serving Whitman County since 1877

125 Years Ago

From the Colfax Gazette, Friday, May 20, 1898

ASSAULTED A WOMAN

Mrs. I. B. Doolittle Attacked Almost at Her Door.

The Villian Arrested! Proved to Be G. C. King, a Farmer from Fallons.

Another dastardly case of assaulting a woman occured in South Colfax Tuesday night around 9 o’clock. It is almost a parallel case with that of the Wickoff assault upon ladies of the souther part of the city last October. The only difference is that the villian did not enter the house.

Just before 9 o’clock Tuesday evening Mrs. I. B. Doolittle left the home of Dr. B...