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HORRIBLE Discovery Ohioans Chain
ed -Four years in MEXICAN Prison.--Th,
followingi is taken from the San Antonio
Western Teran, Of the 7th fSeptember:
, Give gentleman arrived in San Anto
mia, Sept. 4, who are just returning from
California, having come by the overland
route from Mazatlan, on the Pacific: thei
names and places of residence are as fol
lows:
! "Richard NJ. Head, Bibb Co., Ga,; Johl
w. Cole, Holly Spring, Miss; Jame
: Schoolfeld, Hamilton Co., Tenn, Davi'
Spring, Fort Smith, Ark.
From these persons we learn the follow
] ing painful disclosure:
In the city of durango, Mexico, the.
learned in private manner that there wer
some Americans in the city prison; ant
they afterwards got permission to vis
, them. They found them in large ston'
; dungeon, of so filthy description that
a was almost impossible for visitors to re
: main in the entrance way but a few min
: utes. The Americans in confinement wer
!, three in number, and their names ant
!, former places are as follows; VIM. Shir
! ley, Broome Co., N. Y; VIM, Rodgers
i Stark Co., Ohio; John Gaines, Dayton
Montgomery Co., Ohio.
; These men have been in this filthy dun
/. geon four gears and three months, and du
' ring two years of this time they were chain
4 ed down to the floor in total darkness, wher
: they could not see any person but the on
a who fed them their starving allowance
y AT the end Of two years the huge chain
= around their ankles and wrists had wor
the flesh off to the bone; and such was thci
horrible condition, that their chains wcr
! removed to save their lives and keep ther
in misery the longer. The flesh is partl,
= healed over the wounds, leaving the mos
y heart sickening scars, which were all see
: by five persons whose names are mention
4 cd above.
i They state that they were imprisoned o
the charge of numbering androbbing ma
!. for his money, and they state also, tha
l. from some facts which they were in pos
II session Of the person who committed tn
y murder escaped. They have been tryin
to get Va trial, but hearing is refused then
r. They have written letters to the America
!. Ministerin Mexico several times, and the
q have reason to believe that he has neye
E received them.
i Our informants learned from many res
Il pectable Spaniards in Durango, that it
i. impossible to get evidence to convict ther
and the great mass of the people believ
n them innocent. The youngest of the pri'
is oners. John Gaines of Dayton, Ohio, is OF
!. ly II years old.