St. Landry democrat., 1879-09-13
HFOrribl@OsaiO Ssavagery.
RED PEPPER AND BRINE FOR THE
WOUNDS OF a BLEEDING Or
rHAN GIRL-WHIPPED
FOR DOG
FOR A DOG.

! l'IiAN GIRL-WHlPPED
FOR A DOG.
! Portsmouth tO.I Srccl Cincinnati Cnmmcrcial.l !
| Miss Hattie Parker is the name OF a
poor girl whose terrible suffering are
below related. She is generally called
Belle Graham, but her name is Parker,
aged about sixteen years. She was
taken from the Inirmary fourteen
years since by Mrs. Silas 5. Graham
ostensibly to adopt as her own child,
but.rcally as servant, upon whom she
could wrca1 the inhumanity of her i'll
human heart when in one of her tan
, trums. The particulars, as near as we
could get at them. of the latest out
rage on the poor child, are as follows:
Last week, while ironing a large
washing which she had previously
turned out Of the tub, a dog belonging
TO the family entered the room where
she was ironing and deposited cxcre-
ment there. Mrs. Graham entered the
! room at the moment, and, seeing the
filth on the floor she commenced Il vio-
it, who pleaded i'll vain that it must
have just occurred, and had not met her
eyes but all the apologies to Mrs. Silas
II. Graham were without avail. They
! fell upon IL heart of aSlamant. The
woman applied the whip without re
! morse, while the blood gusIled at every
! blow from the puivering flesh OF the
wretched girl, who had been stripped
! by this time and made to lie across a
! table with her back to the blows, until
she was mass of blood, when she was
! turned over and the lash applied along
; her bleeding body from feet to neck
and head.
t It seems almost impossible that the
girl should have lived through this.
There is scarcely place on her body
where one can put a finger down with
out sticking it into Il gaping wound
made by the lash. Bnt she did live.
Live for fresh tortures, which, COM
pared with what we have told, are moth
ing, and stamps the perpetrator as the
master brute OF the Nineteenth century,.
who has had no parallel since it was
fashionable for a religious sect in the
name of Jesus Christ to burn holes in
the Cody with hot pol1ers, split the
tongues and ears, dig out the eyes,
roast under Il slow fire poor deluded
sinners, who believed in communing
direct with God without the interfer-
ence of the Pope or priest
! After. this modern Nantlppe had cx
hausteu her strength in beating her
now helpless and trembling victim,
who is fatherless and mOtherless. she
plucked red pepper pods, tore them
aSunder, inserted into the bleeding
wounds and watched the writhing con-
tortions OF the suffering mortal before
her with Il grin of JOY that we eau only<
attribute to the devil and his angels in
the red glare OF hell.
The monster did not stop here; lml'
fertile brain had still other tortures III
wait as soon as she thought her victim
in a physical condition to bear up under
additional suffering. This time it was
salt and water, which was sprinkled
over the wounds of the helpless one.
The agony OF a human being under
this treatment it is almost impossible
for tongue to tell. Certainly the sutitr-
ing of mortal could be no more excrutiat-
ing and painful under any circum-
@eatment adopted by some physicians
of disease, burning the flesh Oft the
back with all iron OF white heat, is
dreadful the amount OF agony it CAUSES;
but that is as nothing compared to
strong brine, such as used by Mrs.
Graham, and poured into gaping wounds
made in the body Of the victim.
This was not all. Mrs. Graham had
still another instrument of torture, as
soon as the effects of salt and water
j should deaden and give the sufferer
sufficient rest to appreciate additional
agony in waiting for her. This time it
was a hammer or hatchet that tloomon
ster resprteu to-. lending the feet OF
the child before her forward on the
floor, she commenced pounding the toe
nails out by the roots, and her feet are
now, as is her whole hQay, horrible to
Lock upon.
The carnival of crime did not stop at
this. The she monster had still another
indignity to offer her helpless victim.
She tfied to force the eXcrement lett
there 10y the dog into hei mouth and
down her throat. The girl informs us
that it has been Il common practice
with Mrs. Graham to hunt for bed bugs,
and when any We're found to make her
eat them. It has been d common Gus
tom with the monster to whip the girl
until she bled profusely, and then put
pepper pods into the wounds, soak them
with her blood, and then CONNIE! ,.er to
eat them, On several occasions the
brute mas turned the girl face down
ward, call in three or four young devils
and have them put Gu twenty-five
lashes apiece across her naked back.
Her ingenuity in the way OF preparing
tortures is almost beyond belief.
A dark rumOr is now circulating that
two other children adopted into the
family mysteriously disappeared, and
have not been heard from, but we can
trace this to no reliable source. les-
terday the woman appeared before
Squire ellison, in obedience to a SUM
mons served Thursday, and was bound
over to the Common Pleas Court in the
sum OF $500.
DAMAGE TO THE CRor.-While the
most exaggerated reports are III circula-