The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-07-09

her, and during MI the terrible suffer-
| ing of this awful wound the child was
forced to beg and do camp work.
! While up in Grant county, this state,
they were in camp near a farm that
was we'll stocked with chickens. When
night came on McNey made Cora 90 to
the hen rOOst alone to supply them
with fresh meat Forced to obey, she
started, and on :. wing at the place
captured four hens. As she started
/ away one of the hens squalled so lust
ilv that McVev heard it, and the child
fully tcrrorized, dropped one hen and
/ with the other three in her arms made
n break for the camp. For permitting
| the hen to cry out, McNey bound
| the child hand and foot, bucked
| and gagged her. then deliberately
! thrust his pocket-knife into the Quiver
! inc flesh six times. This, said the
/ child, placing her finger on the scar on
! her face, lis one of the gashcs.' Then,
| pushing back both sleeves, number of
sears were revealed that made the
writer's blood fairly turn cold. Wounds
were then disclosed on the lower limbs
that were fully four inches long, and
so many were they that the flesh had
the appearance of being welted and
scanned Mrs. Powell says the body is
! in the same condition all over
See this knot on my elbOW?' point
ing to a swelling on the right arm :;
this is where he hit me with a club
and broke my arm. He had to get a
doctor then" continued the victim,
''but that was the only time he ever did
anything to help me. Pointing then to
the left elbow, she exhibited another
knot that was made by club, the blow
dislocatng the elbow, which was
pulled back by McVey. "Oh, that is
nothing-just look here"' continued
the child, as eXclamations of horror
were made by the scribe. Parting her
hair, a healed wound was disclosed that
extended two inches across the head.
Here Mr.. Powell explained that when
the child was recently examined by a
physician twentv-eight sears were found
on the head alone, all of which were
made BY clubs. To show how thick
these wounds are, the hair was parted
in a half dozen places. each spot show
ing where the scalp had been broken.
As we'll as the child can remember,
two years ago she determined to make
her escape, and one day, when she was
threatened with a whipping, an Oppor
tunity was waited for and a dash made
for liberty.
The camp at that time was five
miles from Portland, Jay county, Ind,
and that town Cora tried to reach. She
succeeded, and just as she was begin
ming to think she was free she was re-
captured by an old gypsy woman, who
was in town telling fortunes. Being
returned to camp she was beaten un-
mercifully, and, to add horror to hor-
ror, McVey again tied her, stripped the
feet of shoes and stockings, and stand
ing the then almost dead child up III
the wagon, nailed one foot to the wagon
bed, the nail being driven through the
left foot The incarnate fiend, still not
being content, struck her blow across
the instep with the blade of the hatchet,
laying the flesh open to the bone, and
then left her in this condition for more
than an hour. If the scars did not
carry out this assertion the people would
not be asked to be believe it. One day
when McVey and the woman O'Connel
had separated from the band, they
went into camp alone, near Richmond,
this state. As usual. Cora was turned
out to beg. McVey was sharpening
scissors, neIlding umbrellas, and doing
such jobs of tinkering as he could se-
cure. THE woman was "doing the
town. and it so chanced that Cora saw
her enter livery stable in company
with two men. Not knowing it would
incur the wrath of either, the child told
McVey what she had seen, and McVey
in turn raised merry war with the
woman. At this moment the three
were in the wagon, and the woman be-
came so incensed that she drew a small
revolver from her dress-pocket, and
fired at Cora. The ball struck her
plump in the forehead, between the
eyes, but by some happy circumstance
it did not penetrate the skull, glancing
off and lodging under the skin an inch
from where it entered. 'See, here is
the place." said Cora, as she turned
back her bangs; and, sure enough,
there was the bullet-hole, the powder
in the skin and the scar that was made
by the surgeons knife short time ago.
On one occasion McVey stripped his
captive. and after bringing pan Of
water to a boil dashed it against her
lower limbs, scalding them tllr the flesh
dropped off in places. AT another time
he tied her to a stake with the intention
of burning her TO death. but changed
his mind, and amused himself by cut
ting off one Of her finger-nails. Her
hands all over shows where he bit out
| pieces simply for the sake of making
her appear wretched when she would
hold them out for aims. The atrocities
visited on this helpless child are with
out parallel in the annals of crime, and
| to hear her recite her awful exper.