Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1881-08-04
PUGH's HORRIBLE DEATH.
BloOd-Curdllng Outrages that are Be-
yOnd Description.
Horrible and Shocking Tortnres before
Death.
His Body Eaten by Coyotes after Death.
From the Enquirer.

Thomas Key Pugh, of your city. the
frightful treatment he received at the
hands of the blood-thirsty Apaches pre-
vious to his death, and the details of his
suffering are so heartrending, sickening
and blood .curdling that no power on
earth could give anything approximating
an adequate idea of the most monstrous
and foul tragedy. While the press has
been furnished with numerous accounts
of the bloody affair. none have at all ap-
preached the awful nature of the case.
This arises partly from the fact that all
information upon which the press tele-
grams have been based has been received
by newspaper correspondents at second
or third hands. no reporters having vAit-
ed the scene of the murder in person to
see for themselves But, in accordance
with instructions from the Enquirer,
your correspondent went over the
ground, and is therefore enabled to enter
into details. that could be obtained in no
other way. A newspaper experience of
many years has brought the writer in
contact with many horrible scenes, but
he is compelled to admit that every thing
he has ever seen or investigated hereto.
fore sinks into utter insignifcance when
compared with the terrible fate of the
late Mr.. Pugh.
SHOCKING TORTURE.
Some of the details are so disgusting
that they are absolutely unfit for publi-
cation, or even to be talked about by the
most hardened wretch. 1t is impossible
to imagine how any body, even a savage
of the widest, most blood thirsty kind,
could conceive of such shocking torture
as was visited upon the victim of the
cowardly. murderous Apaches. Had he
been their most hated foe suddenly fallen
within their power they could not have
devised more cruel and sickening treat
ment.
At THE SCENE.
Invent to the place where the stage was
stopped and where young Pugh was cap
tured. There were with me some of the
party who kad found the young mans
body, AID they took me over the trail
that led to the spot where the murder
was committed. This was two miles
from the scene of capture. Every 500
yards or so there were imprints in the
ground of mans knees, and the guides
explained that at these intervals the pris-
oner had sunk down from exhaustion
and I'd dimplore his savage captors to spare
his life, or to put him out of misery by
killing him. If he pleaded for life at first,
he begged as hard for death at last, for
over the last mile of the trail was sprin-
kled copious stream of blood, and the
sequel showed that the Indians had COM
mitted such an atrocious outrage upon
their prisoner that no man thus mutt
lated could hope or wish to live a min
ute thereafter.
THE SWOLLEN BODY.
The body was found by the Mexican
soldiers on the day succeeding the mur-
der. 1t was swollen to prodigious pro-
portions, and an examination revealed the
sickening extent of the mutilations per-
petrated by the dastardly towards.
Young Pugh had been emasculated in the
most complete manner that such fright
full operation could be performed. It
was while suffering from such barbarous
torture that the demons, his captors, had
forced him to walk over mile When
he could no longer drag himself along,
the brutal Apaches filled his body with
bullets and left him.
EATEN BY COYOTES.
yy1l.. '.Lo Nro,;oo,,o ,o1a; rl ~,
Nhen a the heAlcan solulers Iound the
corpse they aug hole WIN thelr payo,
nets, the only tools tney haa, ana buried
the s"olieh' 1lslorleo remains as pest
tney coulu. heturnilig tile next cay the
Mexlcans ulscoVered thae the coyotes had
aug the oouy up ana naa striP1ed PI IL OF the
greater porVloh oi lts llesi. Inc soiolers
again mace a grave ana ia interreo IN the re-
mans IN ueceilt anu sale manner, aiter
which stone anu "a d cross were placeo IN
poslVion W ui"rA INC grave