The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1859-03-11

was held, with a view OF raising men
to 90 in pursuit Of thc Camanches
who. it was believed, could be idcn-
titled.
Horrible Outrage in Canadu-Ruiiians
Rcvcnging Themselves npon IA Female
! Witness.
The Montreal Gazette has partic-
ulars OF the recent outrage at St. Jrr.
ONE, Canada, upon Mrs. Barron,
who was abducted and mal,reatcd by
rntfians in revenge for her testimony
in criminal trial. One ofthc gang,
Thbau!t, has been caught and turn
States evidence. The Gazette says:
Ii appears that on the night of the
2Glh Jaruary last, (Which was a
most buistGrIus, snowy and windy
one in pursuance OF plot and COR
spirdcy between iuuT men, named
Abraham Ianclin, lsaie Grafton,
Louis Thihault AMI Jean Martin,
they assembled at the house OF Grat-
ton TO commit the deed. but it ap-
pears that the conspirators did not
know where their intended victim,
Rosaie Barron, wife OF Joseph Fou-
cault, was spending the evening, and
at about mid light the project was
abandoned for the moment, but w.th
the undcrstan ting that the deed
would be perpetratcd the following
night. Martin had made a wooden
yoke to put on the victims neck,
aul brought it to llamclin's house
The tour conspirators were bound 10y
most solemn understanding to di-
vul &c nothing on pain Of death.
I On the following night, January
9th, Homelin, Grafton and Thi-
bault left uamelin's house in sleigh
at balf-past eleven O'Clock, aud drove
to the house OF Madame Foncnlt.
whore she was peaceably in bed with
her husband, there being in the
house at the time but her tNo child
rem. aged eleven and twelve. Thu
hault remained in charge of the
sleigh, while lIamelin and Cir ttun
forced their way Into the house,
which WAS only fastened inside by a
nail over the latch. FoIcault, who
is feeble and over sixty years of age,
jumped out OF bed and was held near
Il window, while Grafton iorcibly
carried his wife, barefoot and in her
chemise, to the sleigh, "a haineau,)
dragging her along in the snow. -
There he was joined by lIsmeIin,
and the party drove off some twenty.
five acres distance 10 the stable of
Beijamin Lacasse, a farmer, where
they shut her up. On the road
Grafton got astrid1 OF her, and, Al l.
ed 10y llamrlin, tied her hands with
a rope tightly behind her back; they
shaved and pulled ont a portion o
her hair, and when she cried out
, struck her most brutally in the face
and threatened to kill her. She still
bears marks OF violence; an !, in try
ing to silence her, they tore hcl
; mouth on both sides, and so wonnl
ell her in the face that she was al
} covered with blood. On reaching
the stable. she was again dragged il
: the snow the distance OF six pcrches
and made to 90 on her knees in tn,
stable and beg pardon, and pronis,
that she would not again 20 out II
2 night.
! While Grafton was engaged il
these acts Of brutality, she bit hi
i right thumb. the marks of which ar
: still plain upon it. Blood was seel
= near the stable, and a portion of he
a hair was found the following morn
ing in the snow. She was lett il
that state without anything on he
:. head or feet, and in her night shir,
a in Lacasse's stable, in the staI! near
n est the door, the floor Of which wa
II covered with snow and ice-indeed
: the snow had accumulated around tn
q unfortunate woman, and in that stat
/. she remained until six o'clock tn
+ next morning, when she was di,
t. covered by Mr.. Lacasse on going
If feed his cattle. Mademoisolle l.,
il casse had to give her her own cloth,
d to conceal her person, and she WI
| carried to the house of Lacasse, al
! every possible care was bestowe
of upon her. Mademoiselle Foucau
a was, as may be supposed, so e.
in hausted as to be hardly y able to spea
he and cried out on seeing Mademc
of selle Lacasse: "Oh, for Gods SAX
n. come to my assistance; it is Ham
be In and his men who nave done thI
l am dying"
She was go dis1sured with bio
nd that, although well acquainted wi
on her, che could not 10 recognized u
81. til she named herself.
.st Hamelin, Grafton, Martin a
ed Thibault were Immediately arreste
ht, and the three former have be
nd committed to Jail by Messrs.
le- Montigny and Laviolette.
m Mademoiselle Foucault and
", husband had distinctly recogniz
~. Hamelin and Grafton. Thibault
d. knowledged the whole, and was
no mitted to bail to give evidence at