The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-12-13
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Near one OF the villages in this
county, as our reporter was informed
yesterday, there dwells singular per-
senage about whom and his wife, or
supposed wife, there seems to hang q
mystery. The man is a supple, wiry-
s limbed, dark-hsired specimen who
aims to be an Indian, and calls him
slf White Eagle. He has, until re-
gently, been living about mile from
the hamlet in question, but short time
ago moved into its precincts and lives
in an old tumbie-down frame building.
The woman who is with him, and who
passes for his wife, is young and
handsome white woman apparently
about twenty-five years of age, and has
all the time until thew
moved into the village, when she sud-
denly found her voice and hearing.
White Eagle, who has the appearance OF
being an Indirn, Mexican or negro,
claims that he married his wife in Mex
100. During the six or eight months
prior TO his moving into the village
White Eagle and his wife subsisted
principally on birds and squirrels he
killed, with perhaps a chicken, picked
up now and then from the poultry yards
In the noighborhood. His wife did
nothing, and was rarely ever seen off
their premises, and when she was acct
dentally met she seemed like some shy
ana frightened bird. Fastening to re-
turn to her home. What adds mystery
TO the mystery is tho fact that Little
Eagle, as White Eagle calls his
wife, has found her tongue and
voice since they moved into the town.
ana seems to be a young woman not
only OF a fair, plain encucaton, but of
considerable refinement in manners and
Intelligence. She seems very much
afraid of White Eagle, and like star
tied fawn is always looking about for
his appearance when she Is talking to
any one out of his presence. She win
nave but little to say of her past life,
and, indeed, seems to know but little,
so the impression prevails that she was
stolen when child from her parents or
guardians. She says her given name is
Emma, but retains a strange silence, in
seed, seems frightened when asked her
surname. Instead of remaining at
nome. as formerly, she now does
all the work, doing washing and
scrubbinR and such household
work as she can get from tho village and
farm folk around. White Eagle does
nothing save to hunt occasionally, and
ne - very expert with his shot gun,
Keeping his harder well stored with
ducks, quail, squirrels and occasionally
prairle chickens. Emma, or Little
Eagle, is tall, fair-hairad, bne.eyed
somely young woman, with q sweet ok
preston and gentle manners, and is
Hortally afraid of White Eagle. White
Eagle IL about 30, and although as law
AS the proverbial Indian, he has consid-
cradle skill with his hands, and is a
seadshot with his rifle or shot
gun. lilo says he is an
Indian, but there is little
doubt of his being negro. Ho is very
dark copper color and his hair is dark
lsnc curly.
White Eagle, as before stated, will
talk very little of her auteceiants, but
she has been heard To speak of her
mother and OF brother, who she saws
- school teacher. She is under Il @
deepest subsection to White Eagle.
whom she believes TO be an Indian. and
there Is no doubt but he treats her very
cruelty. She occasionally admits, when
cut at work, that she has no comforts nj
nome, and seems to dread the hour
when she must return. She says she
was IL when she married. Her con
sitl0n eXcites for her much sympathy
IN the community, for it Is believed that
she was wrested from her friends when
she was quite youug,and perhaps forced
70 marry the man White Eagle, no
abe has not the slightest suspicion of
being a negro, and II is also belle cd
shat she thinks White Eagle is her mas
Ter. An effort will he made to gain her
eoniidence and make her understand
that SHE'LL DO projected from the
violenre Of the negro, so that, ii pos
nhle, she may be rescued from his
clutches.