Tombstone epitaph. (Tombstone, Ariz.) 1887-current, 1921-09-18
WARREN GIRL eRurALLv q
BEATEN IN ATTACK

Wuiseu, perhaps dangerously lnJufS1
as the result of brutal attack in
which she said her assailants .riaS
cut out her tongue and threatened to
cut off her finger, Miss Sadie Cham.
pion. daughter of Mrs. NJ. D. Van HUI
len. of Gold Gulch, Warren, was found
last night lying in the brush several
miles from the Van Hulen home.
Miss Champion was found by Mack
Snyder, a neighbor and her fiancee,
who saw her wounded horse, without
rider, return limping to the Van Hulen
corral The girls face was battered
and laoerated and her body danger
ously bruised where she said her as
sailants jumped on her with their
feet
The Van Hulens and some Of their
neighbors keep cows and do a small
dairy business. Yesterday evening,
Miss Champion and Mack Snyder
started up the gulch to get Miss
Champions horse. Rex. AS the horse
was not found where they supposed it
to be Miss Champion suggested that
Snyder return to the house where he
had work 10 do and she would go on
until she located the horse. She did
not return, but the wounded horse
came in at about O'Clock. Snyder
got John ConIey and the two went out
in search for the girl She was found
lying On her face in the brush.
After she had been carried TO the
house. Miss Champion badly, injured
and hysterical, told her story. a story
Of such amazing brutality that it is
thought she may have been slightly
delirious in telling it. She implicit
ed a neighbor, a Slovenian. who has
not been on good terms with some Of
the other residents of the neighbor.
hood and who has been charged with
having shot some of their cows. She
she came upon this neighbor and two
Mexicans She said that they had one
of John Conley's bulls roped and tied
down, the body OF one OF Snyders
heifeTs packed on to burro, and an
other dead heiter. one OF Van Hulen's,
lying on the ground. When they saw
her she said tt..' ore of them fired at
her and wounded her horse and she
fell.
The injured girl told an incoherent
story OF how the MeZicans and the
Slavonian grabbed her and ferocious-
ly attacked her. She said that two
wore black masks over their faces
and that she succeeded in grabbing
one OF them off, and that she had
brought it back with her, but the
mask could not be found. She said
that they tried to cut off her tongue
and that one of the Mexicans threat
ened to cut off her finger TO get a
fine diamond ring. but was prevent
ed by the others.
Several stitches were taken in Miss
Champions tongue and mouth where
they had been lacerated, and her bod
fly injuries would seem to indicate
that she had been brutally beaten.
Examination of the wounded horse
that returned to the corral indicated
that it had been injured by barbed
wire and not by a bullet wound
Search was made last night for the
roped bull and .the slaughtered heif-
ers, but they were not found.
Posses Of deputy sheriffs and arm
ed civilians were ont all night in at
tempt to capture the Mexicans that
Miss Champion said had attacked her
They went over the ground where the
girl was found and searched the coun-
try where she said the heifers had
been slaughtered and the bull tied,
but found nothing. The neighbor, the
Slovenian, whom she implicated in
the. attack, was found at his home.
He had made no effort to escape and
said that he knew nothing of the &C.
currence. The investigation will be
continued today, and it is believed
that with further questioning Of Miss
Champion, after Gle has had time to
recover somewhat from the effects Of
her injuries, the matter win be clear
ed up.