Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-12-04

AoEsILEMAS recently arrived IN San
Francisco from Kern county. q. W Fur
ness. relates the following dreadful story:
About six months ago man named VIM.
Paytop. q man from Illinois. with his
wife. a fine looking woman, and boy
about nine years OF age. settled upon
Government tact in Kern county,, sbout
twenty miles west OF Sumner, the present
terminus of the railroad running toward
the Papamint country, and about nye
miles off the line Of the road. Last rri'
day morning Payton, with his boy, TOOK
his team and went to place hve miles
distant from his place OF residence. leav-
inc his wife at home. On bis return m
The evening his wife was missing. The
| nearest peiphbor was nearly mile from
| his residence, but Payton sounded the
| alarm az soon as possible, and search
was Immediately commenced iof sne
afternoon she was discovered IN almost
diving condition in ravine ABOUT siA
miles from her residence, and from ner
was learned the horrible story OF nef
sufferipgs. About an hour after her nus
band had left home on Friday, nve MeA'
leans or Californians rode up to the
house and asked for drink OF wasef,
and as Mrs. Payton entered the mouse 20
procure it two of the men dismounseo.
When she returned she was suddenly
seized. bound hand and foot, and placed
!, on the horse of one of the parties. Inc
whole party dashed of ut full speed,
making for ravine in the foothills some
I luiius distant. alter ABOUT three nouis
! ride, the party arrived ut o place whicn
a gave indications Of being an old camp
and where there were some extra hcrsei
and quantity of provisions. Here the
d party dismounted and tthen commenced
IS hellish Outrage. which continued INN IN.
n Sunday morning. The .narrauve Oh III;
sufferings of the helpless woman VINO nay is.
been dragged from her home to gratii!
me unnatural lust of these demons, can
d not be described, and the widest imagl
D. nation cannot conceive OF more awiu
q crime than was there enacted. NO
= once. merely, but repeatedly did each on
y of these fends'in human form suoJec
Q their weak, struggling victim to o name
d less outrage, and in addition she wa
beaten with their fists and dashed will
: their riding whips, until the blood fowet
: down her body.
4 At an early hour on Sunday morninl
D the bcOuuurele DEoho cunpb onu Ao"~Hl
the poor woman down the ravine upol
which they: had been located. gave he
several cuts with switches, started he
+ off in one direction, they riding of in an
] other. For several hours she wandered
9 blinily staggering and stumbling along
until at last, almost famished for want
food, and nearly dead from the injurie
: she had received, she fell in faint at th
s point where her husband discovered he
4 in the afternoon. The poor woman wa
y taken to the nearest residence and re
ceived all the care and attention possible
but on Monday morning, when Furnes
last saw her, it was extremely doubtful
whether she could survive the injurie
j. she had received. The country in whic
v this unparalleled outrage was perpetrste
!. is sparsely settled, but all the availabl
forces of the region was soon aieid
- search of the perpetrators Of the crime
b The roughness OF the region and II
i. ANAL mass OF the pursuing force al
such, however. that but.little hopes al
> entertained Of capturing them.-lSa
Q Union, %,