Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson Athens Messenger November 22, 1888 GALLIA On Wednesday evening of last week, as Myrtle Hively, the seventeen- year-old daughter of an estimable farmer of Harrison township, Gallia county, was returning from milking cows, she was assaulted by a man who said he had been waiting for her. Angered by her resistance and threats to expose him, he drew a knife and cut a gash in her throat that will probably be fatal, and then fled. The girl made her way home and fell screaming and bathed in blood in her mother's arms. Several neighbors rushed in -- among them Benjamin McKinley, who Myrtle immediately pointed out as her assailant. "My God, Myrtle, you don't accuse me." he cried, but she insisted that he was the man. McKinley spent several hours praying, yelling and acting crazy. If caught he will be lynched.