The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-05-27
THE DAILY DISPATCH,
Tuesday Morning. May -, Iss6.


Wiid Womnn-.story or Her Capture.
he Cincinnati Commercial. Of Thursday, re-
ports the arrival there OF the Wild Woman Of the
Wachita Mountainsr She was captured In the
Wachita Mountains In March, by Mr. Northeott
and several others, who had visited the locality
gold hunting. He had seen her go out of cave
and formed party to watch for her, having frst
closed the entrance of the cave
Atier few hours she returned and took alarm on
observing that her door in the rocks was closed
against her. He had two dogs which he SET upon
her, and after running about one Hundred and fifty
yafas she turned about as IL confused In her fright
nnd HE'D towards the cave. He ran to meet her with
a iasso IN his hand. and she approached worried
ny the dogs he threw it her neck and called of
the dogs and she, giving spring. jerked him to the
moose having by that time fastened about her throat
and ehoked her. He then tied her, during which one
ration she uttered such horrd screams thar ths bir
stood up on his head, and he had the most singular
and awful feelings he ever experienced ET- -.
After securing the girl he entered her den and
reots such as could be gathered and diersd in that
vicinity The principal fruit was kind of large red
haws which We're theresbout very abundant: and sIe
had kind of nest to sleep 10, while everything ndi
cated her utter solitude. The garment which she
wore was of skins queerly tied together with bits of
leather and also with a kind OF grass Ths .I;n.
w-re those of large animal neither bear NOR hfso
Mr.. Northcott says and the hunters could not tell
exactly trom what manner Of beast they were taken
p ad
or that she might have been attacked bv and H.
mastered some benst S
But there is an air of mprobabity about this tina.
the strange and almost terrible reality of the woman
herself does not quite dispe and we have not room
mere and now to argue the point The garments were
strong, says Mr. NJ that they protected the f. 49,
from the teeth of his dogs For five days af,er bs
capture his pet refused take food but then took
OF red haws She was taken the three hundred miles
ed settlements, in Grayson county Texas witbsSga
rope about her waist the ends of which were in the
hancs OF himself and his comrade, while the dogs
followed after. As soon as he could procure it. he
had hack so fixed as to make of the body kind of
csge, in which he confined her. and conveyed her
safely until he finally got her on steamboat She
arrived here on the steamer Hickman d z.ls.----
For time she rejected all prepared food, but now
she will eat almost anything that is offered that is not
very salt or very sweet
The editor of the Commercial describes a visit
that he paid to this savage curiosity:
Wesaw tall, gracefully formed, young white girl
scantily but neatly clothed standing with stout rops
about her waist and attached to bed post The first
impression was similar to that of being ia the pre-.
sencs of q fierce maniac.
She stood at the foot of the bed partially hiding
behind it, and rocking slowly but with nervous unea-
sness from one foot to the other and starring fixed
ly upon Us with great, bright, unwinking eyes SO
widely opened that ring of white surrounded the
pupil, which, with the wild and intense glare of the
orb, gave it strange and frightful expression Be-
meath the eyes were deep circles showing long con-
tinued and excessive excitement or exertion mental
or physical.
ief halr was long and thick hsng1ng In heavy mat
ted masses aud wry tangles about her face neck and
shoulders, and in color dark brown. Her complex.
ION was fair even delicate and her features decidedly
hand some. her mouth is mall and finely formed
her lips thin and red but tightly compressed and her
teeth even and white. But there was not that we
could discover, any trace of humor in her face aud
we are informed by her captor that he had never
seen her smile. We need hardly say that she does
not talk. The only sign she makes with her mouth
is mumbling. moaning grumbling with which.
when hungry and thisty, she expresses desire
drink.
There is nothing like timidity in her looks, only
the discomposure mingled with defiance which slesns
In the eye of panther The appearance of a ma
MAC which, to our glance, she wore when we entered
her apartment gradually passed away and there was
a softer expression, and something like gentle glow
ofintelgence in her still vivid eye Becoming more
composed she sat down, and her at request
brushed back the tangles of her hair, showing her
cheeks and forehead. .as III. "- 80
These were fair. The cheek was thin but its out
hines quite womanly, and her brow and temples show
intellectually of no mean commsn order. What
ever she is may have been, she was by nature
gifted with capacities for higher intelligence.