Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-09-17
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Lawrence, K r., Aug. 81
1t is my duty to record one Of the most hell
ish outrages which ever dsgraccd any age or q
country; but which, alas! is not isolated one al
IN our beautiful Territory. Let this case be hand
ed down as an evidence OF the demoralizing ef.
tects upon humanity of that cursed Institution
which our rulers are trying to force upon us. a5
i 4 Mr. Henry Hyatt, with his wife and family,
moved from Milton, Wayne County, Ind, to
Kansas, and settled on a claim on Washington
Creek, about seveniniles south from this city,
Accompanying his wife was a young widow lady,
friend OF the family, who desired to emigrate
TO Kansas. Mr. Hyatt commenced building
mill on his claim last spring, and, as extra hands
we're needed. Pro-shvcry man was employed,
who boarded at his house, .e-f zs ag5tjs
Ii was soon noticed that when any news of q
the movements of the Free-State or Pro-slaveryi
parties reached Hyatts, that, this mnn after siip
per time, would go off TO the rendezvous above
known as Fort Sanders, which has since been s
broken up, and there stay till quite late in the
night, and that on Sabbath evening he spent all
his time either there or at the house OF Pro-sl,-i
very neighbor close by At last Mr. Hyattssl
family whose feelings are with the cause of Free
dom here charged himwith being spy, and the
young lady cited instances of his visits to Pro-
slavery places after the receipt of news by thcm,
with an earnestness very dstastefu to the Ruit-
an. The result was that he left Mr.. Hyatts en-
ployment. essa 8ts5a a4. }a tzsszT esas
On the night OF Wednesday,, Ang. 90, when
all the family had gone to rest, the young lady
left her room AMI went 10 one of the out build-.
ings in the rear of the house. On her return
she was seized by four masked rutiians, and so
overcome was she by terror that before She
could scream her tongue was choked out of her
mouth and tied with string behind her head
and around her neck. She was then told that IL
she made the least noise she would Immediately
be shot; and revolver was held to her head
while they tied her hands behind her back
They then carried hera few hundred yards from
the house into patch Of long prairie grass, and
commenced their hesh ,deeds--three standing
guard while they each in turn violated her per-.
son. tatsg ..le tesG-.- .4St59 ssss sst--.s
She had swooncd from fear, and had not 70 +
turned to a state of entire consciousness when /
this inhuman assault was utade upon her person.
After completing their nfamy, they kicked her
in the side aud abdomen, and left her, il is sup.
posed, TO die. How long she remained in n
state of insensbty she does not know, but
she enabled to stagger in the direction of
the honse. On reaching it, she was unable to-
open the door, her hands being tied behind her
back, and she was also unable to speak, her.
tongue being tied with a sizing, and was now
sweiied to an alarming size. She was too weak
to shout, and in the effort tainted In falling
overturned an empty a-churn which stood near
the door,and the noise made by the churn
against the siding OF the house awokc Mr. Hyatt
| and his family who found her in the condition
| described. - t1,,a.7sEss s. Fsl, frl q gS5
| On Sunday last, the Esd, she took at the re,
quest of DR.. Avery, some nourishing food; but
her case is considered nearly hopeless. She has
had several fits of convulsions and. though her
friends, ,believedlast night that she would die be-
fore morning, she still lives. 1t is supposed
the pro- slavery hired man and three of his asso-
! ciates were the perpetrators of this viliainy. "
I The facts ofthe above ease were given me by
DR.. Avery, who attended the lady professionally,
and who accompanied the Richmond company
into this Territory. On this statement have
the most implicit reliance. He is spoken ofby
the Bxffalo Convention Committee in their re-
port as IA wise and accomplished physician,
and as he made professional visit to the lady,
he knows all about the case And yet, with all
these most inhuman outrages before their eyes,
there are class Of men, even in the North,
who profess to believe that negro slavery ele.
Yates the character of the whites 1ii
1t is needless to say that these villains are at
large, aud, like the murderers of Hoyt and 9th
ers, always will be, the bogus laws having been
made for the punishment OF the free State men
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