, 1884-06-08
AN INHUMAN WRETCH.
He Securely Binds His Wife Hand
and Foot
And Spends an Afternoon in Cruelty
Torturing Her.
The Woman Finally Rescued and
Her Husband Arrested.

Last night at about IL O'Clock vii
liam Heath, a hack driver, while driving
in the western portion of the city was in
formed by some parties who came hur-
rldly up from the Crow Creek bottom that
a murder was probably being committed
in a grout house which stands about mid
way between Sixteenth and Seventeenth
streets over the hill in the bottom and
that help was needed and he was request
ed to go at once for an officer. Turning
his horses toward the business portion of
the city he drove swiftly toward the CEN
ter of the city. Meeting Captain Smith
he hurriedly told him of the situation and
pushed on for more assistance. Smith
WITHOUT WAITING o ASSISTANCE
or any other officer to go with him at once
pushed down to the place indicated to the
assistance of any who might be in danger
of being murdered. When he reached
the house he heard terrifying cries eyi-
IDENTIFY from one who was on the point of
being killed. Smith spared no time but
made for the door of the house and
effected an entrance. He was at once con
fronted by a most v%illianous looking
half-breed Indian with Il carbine drawn
ready for instant use, while neal by him
on the floor was an Indian woman, her
hands and feet bound and her head and
arms completely covered with blood. Al
though the miscreant with the carbine
drawn made ready to fire, yet quicker
than a flash Smith drew his revolver and
had the man covered before he had time
to fire.
In the meantime Heath, in his ride for
assistance, had found Officer Sullivan and
taking him into his hack drove at a break
neck speed to the scene of action. They
were close at hand when Smith
IRIS CONFRONTED HALF-BREED
in his den, and while Smith did not know
that he had assistance, yet as a matter of
the two persons named were close by
ready to lend a helping hand had it been
necessary. As soon as the fellow saw that
Smith had the drop on him he wavered a
little, when the officer dealt him a power
full blow with his revolver which sent him
to the wall. Sullivan and Heath then
took a hand in the matter and the Indian
was instantly disarmed and secured. The
three then turned their attention to the
poor bruised and apparently half lifeless
woman, who lay weltering in her own
blood upon the floor. She was bound so
completely hat she had no use whatever
of her hands or feet. The large rope
with which her hands were bound was
wrapped round and round her bare arms
so tightly that it was the work of nearly
twenty minutes before the suffering
woman could be released. Her head and
face was beaten and cut in a horrible
manner, and she was
DIsFIGURED ALMOST BEYOND .RECOG-
milton.
The wretch who had perpetrated the
~rascally deed was at once taken up to the
calaboose, while the poor woman was
taken into the hack and driven at once to
DR.. j. j. Marston's Office, where her
wounds were dressed by the physician.
The carbine, a quantity of ammunition
and several other little articles were found
with the half-breed, and they were all
gathered up and taken to the City Hall.
Among these effects were two or three
papers, one of which proved to be a mar
rage certifcte, which showed that Lorois
Laceno and Helen Morrison were married,
January I, 1884, but the reporter who ex-
amined the certificate did not notice
at the moment where or by whom
the marriage ceremony had been per-
formed. After THE LEADER repre-
sentative had seen this certificate
other articles captured and also the ugly
looking rope with which the woman had
been bound, he went into the ~calaboose
and took a peep at the ~viscious looking
brute who had been locked in one of the
cells of the calaboose. One look was suf-
ficient to satisfy the curiosity of the re-
reporter. 1t is, of course, apparent that
the
MAN AMI WOMAN ri MARRIED,
but at the late hour when this affair be
came known, it was impossible to ascer-
tain very much concerning the couple.
1t appears, however, that they have
lived in the grout house where the affair
took place, with another family, and from
them it was learned that the inhuman
wretch had tied the woman and beat her
on the head with his carbine as often as
he chose to from about 4 o'clock in the
afternoon until found at before described.
After the wounds of the woman were
dressed she was taken to the City Hall
where she now is. She tries to speak a
little English but makes a sad failure Of
it. There was but one word she could
say last night the meaning of which could
be understood and that word was
"Papoose." What significance this has
is more than has as yet been a%scertained.
Further facts and developments in this
mysterious and brutal case will probably
be learned to-day.
A Dark Ho rise.