This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dupler Monnet Monnett Hastings Vermillion Neeley Miller Smith Hayes Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/2VB.2ACE/502.1 Message Board Post: Lancaster Daily Eagle, Lancaster, Ohio, October 4, 1928 NAB ATTACKER AFTER ASSAULT ON THURSTON GIRL - Catch Man Who Dragged Little Girl From House - Entered Dwelling at 2 a.m. and Took Child Out Window - May be Faced by Victims of Masked Man. Emerson Monnet, aged 37, section hand with the N. Y. Central Ry., pleased guilty this morning in Mayor Hastings court to charges of assault with attempt to ravish 12-year old Bessie Dupler of Thurston and taking improper liberties with the girl. He was bound over to the grand jury under bond of $2,000 on each charge and is being held at the county jail. While intoxicated, Monnett opened the window of the Dupler home at 2 o'clock this morning, crawled in and turned out the light, then carried away the little girl who was asleep on a couch. She had volunteered to make her bed downstairs when her sister, with whom she slept, complained of pain in an injured hip. Mr. Wm. Dupler, a carpenter, heard his daughter scream as she was awakened and carried thru the open window, which Monnett had propped up with a croquet mallet. He had also cut off the bottom part of the curtains, apparently to prevent entanglement on making his exit. Mr. Dupler ran downstairs, followed by his wife, who became hysterical when she found her daughter missing. In a few moments the little girl came running back to the house, her night clothes torn from her, bruises on her arms and back, and a cut on her shoulder. Fighting in terror she had been carried and dragged to a spot behind a schoolhouse about 600 feet away where she broke loose and fled as Monnett attempted to make an immoral assault on her. Judson Vermillion, Thurston marshall, was summoned by Mr. Dupler and with others made a search for Monnett whom the little girl had recognized. The attacker was found at his home, arrested, and brot [sic] to the city jail where he was turned over to George Neeley, night captain. Harry Miller, a Thurston man who was said to have been associating with Monnett earlier in the night was also arrested and fined for intoxication. Except for nervous shock which caused no lasting effect, the little girl was unharmed by her terrifying experience, excluding the minor hurts mentioned. May Call Other Women It is thought possible that Monnett, who is said to have been arrested before in Thurston, Newark and Columbus on charge of immoral conduct, may be responsible for one or more of the attacks upon women which threw such a scare into the city and county a few weeks ago. Officials are considering having Mrs. Perry Smith and Mrs. Edward Hayes, victims of the masked attacker, confront Monnett to see if the women can identify him.