Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-10
The Red Fiends.
TERRIBLE BARBARITIRs UPON THE FEMALE CAP
TIVES.

TERRIBLE BARBARITIEs UPON THE FEMALE CAP
TvEs.
The following letter from Mrs. N. g. Meeker
is published 10 The Pueblo Chieffain:
GREELEY, Col, Dec. 30.-To the Editor of
''The Colorado Chieftainh-Dear Sir: arise
from sick bed to state few facts, which
you and the people of Colorado demand. We
three captiv of the Utes-myself. Mrs
Price, and daug hter-were all interviewed sep
government to tell the whole truth of
our treatment by the Indians, and each one Of
us gave in our testimony in answer in the at
frmative against the Indians. gave in my
testimony for the use of the government to do
with it Just as they should see fit. There was
nothing said about its being suppressed on
either side. just simply gave my testimony
to the government officers, innocently suppos-
ing they knew their duty, and would
do it. also thought had done all that
belonged to me to do, by telling
these officers the sickening and most
humiliating misfortune that can befall wo-
man, and if they and the interior department.
have not done their duty by the people Of Col
orado, it is they who are to blame and not me.
On arriving home to Greeley found myself
completely broken down in mind and body,
and have bad long spell Of severe sickness,
from which l am just recovering. Yours
truly, Mrs. N. Q. MEEKER'
Cheyenne Leader.
The direct evidence from Mrs. N. @. Meeker,
that herself, daughter and Mrs. Price were
outraged by the hostile Utes, has awakened tho
people to q proper sense of the enormous crimes
committed by the hostiles. The people had
hoped, and preferred to believe, thatthe persons
of the female captives remained unframed.
But the truth is out in full, and indignation is
strong and wide spread. 1t seems fortuitous
1akka had in
Pueblo, for the government designs transport
ing the Indians over the Atchison, Topeka
Santa Fe road. in order to escape the fury of
prospective mob in Denver. But we mistake
the temper of the southern Colorado people if
they do not capture the hostiles in the band
under Gen. Hatch, and kill them instantly. 1t
is not i'm Improbable that the publication of Mrs.
Meeker's letter in Pueblo, at this time, involves
an intention to post the people and bling about
the desired result.
Newspaper men have long known all of the
inside history of the captivity of the women,
but have RETAINED from using the same in def
erence to the women themselves But now
that Mrs. Meeker has made public the story of
her terrible wrongs, there can be no harm IN
telling all.
Immediately after captivity the women were
forced, under threats of torture and slow death,
to Weld to the lust of their hideOus captors.
The women, suffering untold agony on account
of the murder of their husbands, and father,
were dazed and bewildered, and were powerless
to resist. Poor old Mrs. Meeker, over 60 years
of age, and suffering from flesh wound in the
rear portion of the thigh, became the vic
tim of Douglas, who afterward boosted of his
protecting care. Josephine Meeker was held by
Persune, and Mrs. Price by johnson. The I'M
bearable indignities were simply augmented by
other Utes, friends of the three mentioned. In
the hellish outrages the bucks were assisted by
suuaws. These female savages seemed to gloat
over the horrors perpetrated upon the white
captives of their own sex.
During their captivity the sufferings OF the
three women were indescribably horrible. The
hellish fiends renewed their crimes time and
time again. The poor women feared they
would never be delivered from q thraldom
worse than death, for death is Inconsistencies,
while there existence was living death and
an earthly hell every day.
As if all this were not sad enough, the woes
of Young Josephine are increased by condi-
ton that is believed to be horrible in the ex-
IRENE. Female acquaintance say that
knowledge thereof causes a shudder to rack the
frame of everyone who hears the sad, sad tale.
Under all these circumstances would not the
lynching of the guilty hostiles be justihable!
Would men-men, in whom pulsates the gen.
erous throbs of humanity, stop in the work of
discriminating those beings who are worse than
the brutes of the jungle, although of the hui
man form divine?" Judge Lynch has already
sufficient evidence to condemn the guilty ones
with Gen. Hatch, and we hope to have the ex-
IRENE pleasure of recording their death by the
hands of the indignant citizens. Lynching is
their Just due, and we think it is their doom.