The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-10-24

70 ga.- o.. t.sScaty. Count, S-1 =. =
:c,. 4. her ssIsacni'tzz ssr.- -s,sied ny
th. stn.i-, ..r .n- H|si +. -'Hic-Ts Az
rH,s Dawn H ho snt II. re-. aos
women are fs-,,.S"G b, sh- >c.re
Th" accounts received recently through
nilii,Fy and other -u,u7c,r, cf the iawl,ts
De- y ~ /, nj IN sy;..s prT;s Of New Mex
lee, ar fully '-EohUr4t.-d hy IA. testimun,
or n resident @. hat territory who passed
through this cIiy 4 law ~ ago, on hi.
wty east This gentleman Tssiaes In Lilo.
coin cruniy, where cIsiy j. in /, state ui
anarchy, and who're binda # sneving mis-.
creams piupder ard ravish ard murder
thou ind n, 'ut hsving m tde himself
oiious T. the ouIiaSs ~ his ap;,eals
L. the mil;iar, f.r Irr,gcti II. he j .re moi
rem,in th ne in tie aaser.. of all
eva g.,y.EuG4rnt. art . came east with
the inientiun OF - yng away until order
cai y Restored. lie says taat i his name
should ~IsesF in .sTi a. al inl. rniaut re-
gsTding the ndItiOn oi society 10 thai
country and th, fact Of his having given
such information should ever b, come known
there, he would pay the Pc atty OF his in
discretion with his life ~ithin forty hour
after his return TO his ranch He describes
the Greasers as the most vindiciive race OF
people on the face of the globe. They
never think of redrcssine a wrong or an
injustice by recourse TO Law, but
RESORT TO ASSASSINATION,
and men sre shot down in the dark and the
civil officers dare not besiIr themselves 10
appreheud the perpetrator, lest they meet
with the same summary vengeance. lie
says the accounts given by the command
ing officer at Fort Stanton of the depreda-
tions of the band of cut-tbroats styling
themselves the "Wrestlers" have not been
overdrawn. This particular band numbers
nearly one hundred hellions, each one OF
whom carries an improved rife, a pistol,
and u bowie-knife, and a belt full of anu
milton. The day before he left his rheep-
ranch to came East, the "Wrestlers''
swooped down upon a ranch on the Rio
r ,nito, owned by a man named Bartlett.
Upon the ranch il a small grist mill. This
they set fire to, and il was totally destroy
I'd. They then visited dwelling occupied
ly the two millers, and sitter tying the men,
carried their wives BY force into the brush
near bv, and stripped the clothing from
their bodies. For several hours these help
less women were successively outraged BY
the band of miscreanrs, who, late in the
night, left their victims in, as they sup
posed,
ADYING CONDITION.
One Of the women, however, recovered suf-
6cient strength to crawl to the houeo of Mr..
Bartlett, which she reached at o'clock in
the morning. The other woman was after
ward found in the brush, in a pitiable and
half-crszed condition, and suffering intense
ly from cold. Within the last sixty days
one hundred murders have been committed
and at least
FIFTY WOMEN HAVE BEEN OUTRAGED
TO the point Of death. The inhabitants ~
the vlilsge OF Antslo pc have fed IN -
msy to The nounsain- ard are hiding in
cxves and among the rocks All business
is s.,s,snded. and the man who goes on;
upon the reed takes his ,iis in his hama
The people have Appealed in vai1 TO the
military a, Fer, Startcn. ne officer in
command Is begging of The higher au'hori-
,'es Tor permission g. attack Inc bsn1i'ti,
Dat "nder the scf of Congress approved
Ju'e is, 1873, no pari Of tie arms can be
enPioysa ss p,sse o,mi:o Us Tor the Pur-
poe oi executing The Laws or assisting the
cis,i authorities. The rob5 rs seem,d to
uader.ssud the position the troops are
plso<d in, and take advantage of II TO prey
upon the citisens.