Bisbee daily review., 1907-05-24
'DRUNKER BRUTES
 ASSAULT WOMEN
Alone on Stage with Railroad Graders, Two Have Hor-
 ible Experience,

There lies sick at the home Of Benja- min Franklin on Seventh street in this city. comedy middle-aged col ored woman, wife of the chef of the Vicker hotel al Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico. Mr. Franklin is one of tnc best known and highly respected col. ored men of Douglas and yesterday afternoon he called at the editorial rooms of the Dispatch and related a tale Of brutal treatment accorded his guest at the hands of white brutes while en route to this city that should send the perpetrators of the crime tf' prison for life. Out of respect to the poor woman. her name is withheld, but she can be seen at the Franklin home.
 It seems that about three months ago she and her husband were hired in EI Paso by MT yickers of MocteZuma to work in his hotel. the man as chef and the woman as housekeepeT. A week ago the woman was taken sick and it was decided that she come to Douglas for medical h-eatment 1t was impossible for her husband to get away, so she had to make the stage journey alone to Nacozari, via Cumpas, a distance of over loo miles. Every. thing went well with her until after leaving Cumpas, where the stage was boarded by a gang of half drunken railroad graders. The coIOred lady and a Mexican woman were the only female occupants of the stage which was a large one drawn by six horses.
 Soon after leaving Cumpas the men commenced to drink mcscal. and de- spite the protestatiOns of the two wO- men they were forced to drink the vile stuff. The men continued to get more ugly and familiar, and when both women were in Q semi-state of mtoXica'ion they were assaulted in a most brutal manner by the white devils. notwithstanding The protests Of thS colored woman that she was an invalid
 When the stage arrived at Nacozari the white men tumbled out pen melt and left the exhausted and half stupe. fed women to care for themselves. When the driver was complained to regarding the treatment they had ra- ceived in the coach while en route. the women were told that they were "d-d lucky to get oG as easy as they did"
 All.,c:-sI the sick woman had a note from MT. Vlckers that was sup posed to secure ,ner accommpdations at the hotel at Nacozari, she was turned from rfIe door and after a deal of trouble found refuge in a Chinese restaurant. Then she was seen by a colored woman of that town who after hearing the story of her awful exper> 'ence In the stage coach, cared for p.e sufferer that night and saw thSt she got away safely on the trStu next morning, she arriving hera Tuesday. From the colored woma>I in Nacozari he traveller learned 0f Mir. Franklin and sought his hovie out on arriving iere, where she now lies, critically sick. as stated before. The Mexican woman disappeared at Nacozari. and | she d<d Hot come to Douglas with hel l co-dpsnion In misfortune.
 l To make a bad matter worse, aftel l the woman had been repeatedly as saulted, by the worse tdan brutes, the! 1 stole her money and threy bottle O medicine she had with her away. For 1 tunately she had Q small sum conceal ed about her person that the men dit
 not find.
 Mir. Franklin intends to notify tn
 womap's husband by mail today O her frIghtful experience while comtni here, but 1t is doubtful if any thin can be done 10 bring her assailant
 to justice. Ii is plain from the facts nere sta'
 ed that it Is unsafe for a woman [
 travel alone by stage in the state c
 Sonora, and it is to be regretted l this Instance that some Arizona COW
 bows were not on hand to deal on ] i,,e+sca to those miserable. brutal raj
 road graders.
 MT. Franklin said that the unfortl
 naie woman was resting somewha
 easier last night, though she Is almos
 nervous wreck.