Hoosier

The defendant was convicted of the crime of statutory rape upon one May Bartol, a female of the age of about eleven years, and brings the ease to this court on an appeal from the judgment and the order denying him a new trial.

This case contains the final chapters of -the story of a veritable saturnalia of lechery which was carried on, during the month of February, 1913, at Crescent City, Del Norte County. The initial chapter of the series of malodorous transactions is given in the case of the People v. Bartol, (Crim. No. 244,) ante, p. 659, [ 142 Pac. 510 ], the opinion in which was filed in this court on June 1,1914. From the beginning to the end,' the story is replete with details which are revolting in the extreme and shockingly illustrate the degree of perverseness to which human nature can descend. Indeed, so monstrously diabolical are the circumstances of the series of transactions leading to this and the Bartol cases that justly it may be declared that truly they have discovered and so added to the criminal annals of California proof of the very ultima fhule of human depravity. It is, indeed, a heavy tax on human credulity to believe that anywhere within the zone of…