Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-12-18

they mad obtained, first rolling large
stone against the door, which opened
outward, to prevent its being opened.
AS soon as the murderous gang was out
of the house, Phebe, herself covered
with blood from her wounds, fastened
to remove hef fathers body out of the
chest, hoping that he WAS still alive. Her
mother was wandering from room to
room, moaning and weeping. The bound
boy stood as immovable as stone against
the wall where Edward Robin had
| placed him with the terrible threat half
an hour before. He was still afraid to
stir. Phebe's mother rendered a little
aid in removing her father from the
trunk. He was stiff and paid, and ap.
parently dead. Phebe got him upon the
bed, and was overjoyed to hear him
groan. She pried his jaws open with a
pewter spoon--a rude tablespoon, still in
the family, with the teeth marks of
Henry Reynolds upon its handle, and
poured few drops of water in his
mouth. He began to revive, and while
Phebe was putting forth every effort to
staunch his wounds and to aid his resto.
ration, her mother, who had been aim
lessly wandering about the house, totter-
ed into the room, and, dropping to the
floor, covered her eyes with her hands
and Historically exclaimed:
ooh, Phebe Phebe! The house is on
fire! The house is on fire 1t is on fire
in three places! And can't put it out,
if it burns down over our heads!"
The bound boy still stood motionless
by the wall, as if he were nailed to the
spot, and could not be induced to move.
Phebe was compelled to leave her father,
as the volumes of smoke then began to
come from an adjoining room warned
her of another impending danger. The
Tories had set fire to some fax and to
two straw beds. Phebe extipguished
the fire, and then tried to make the
bound boy run and alarm the neighbors,
but he would not stir. By persistent
effort the brave girl, herself covered with
wounds, and her clothes saturated with
blood, brough her father back to con.
seriousness, and then, consioning him to
the care of her mother, who had grown
more composed, she started out to give
the alarm. In her relation of her ter
rible experiences of that night to her
children and grandchildren more than
half century afterward, she dwelt with
noted the growing of the cocks as she
started after help, and said to herself,
it must he nearly morning." This,
she thought, indicated how cool
and collected she was after the frightful
scene she had just witnessed. She
alarmed the neighbors, and doctor was
summoned from Goshen. A party started
in pursuit of the Tories. 1t was found
that Reynolds had 80 serious wounds,
inflicted by swords and knives, but not
one of them had reached vital spot
! One OF his ears was nearly severed from
bis head, and 1t was bound back as near
ly as possible to its place. but the manner
in which it healed disigured him for
life. One OF MS arms was so badly
cut that he never recovered its Use.
Phebe had two serious wounds, one in
| the breast and one in the head. The
others were painful but not dangerous
decorations. 1t was several weeks before
Reynolds and his daughter were again
able to get about, and their escape from
the death that was intended for them
was so wonderful that the people for
miles around focked to see them. The
bound boy never recovered from the
fright he experienced that night. Brain
fever followed, and he died, begging
THAT his head should not be cut off. Mrs
Reynolds gave birth to her child the day
after the assault of the Tories. 1t lived,
grew to womenhood, and is we'll remem-
bered in Sullivan county as the wife OF
DR.. Blake Wales, one of the pioneer
| physicians Of this part of the state, and
the prcgenitor of large and prominent
family. Caleb Reynolds, the child who
WAS kicked so brutally by one of the
Tories, grew up, and was soldier under
Jackson at the battle of New Orleans,
and was killed in that engagement.
The Wings who set out in pursuit of
the Tories overlook them in the noun
tains, and only two OF them escaped
alive. Kelley, the leader, was killed, as
above stated, by a young man named
June. The property that was found by
his side was the coat in which Henry
Reynolds had been married Is years be-
fore. The coat was returned to Rey-
holds, but he refused TO touch it after it
had been in the possession of Tory, and
ordered it TO be burned Edward
Robin escaped to Canada, and years
afterwsrd sons Of his returned to Orange
county TO search for booty that their
father and others of the Smith gang had
hidden in the mountains. In 1888,
Henry Reynolds removed 10 Sullivan
county. and settled in what WAS known
as the Mutton Hill neighborhood, being