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to his arms, then put a stick an inch and a half wide in his mouth, 
prying it open, and tied the string back of his head. Then, more 
barbarous than the New Zealanders, they cut places in his hat, 
and tied that also over his face, and laid his face downwards on 
the stones. They went away leaving him to die. 
After a time they came back; and, as one placed his pistol 
directly over his eye, he feeling its pressure through the hat, the 
other said, “ Don’t shoot him ; he will not go any further on his 
journey to-night.” They left again to report at the camp, proba¬ 
bly, another victim to the vile tools of slavery propagandism. 
When this young man found himself again alone, and thought 
they would not return, he commenced making an effort to extri¬ 
cate himself from his painful position. By working his boot upon 
the sharp stones, he found the rope loose enough for him to draw 
his foot out. His feet were thus left at liberty, while one boot 
was swinging on his back. By working his hat between his knees, 
he was able to pull it off his face. Then with the strip of board 
still lacerating his mouth, and hands fastened with strong cords 
behind him, he set out to find some house in the darkness of the 
night. 
He had come from Iowa in the spring, and was but little ac¬ 
quainted with the country. After travelling eleven miles, he knew, 
by the barking of the dogs, he was near a house, but was unable 
to get over the fence. The strange cries he made at last attracted 
the attention of the family, but, supposing him to be a drunken 
Indian, they did not at first come to his aid. He was, however, 
cared for by them. Elliot, who with Titus pledged five hundred 
dollars for the head of Capt. Walker, when the U. S. Marshal, 
with his usual servility, offered to send a posse for him, was one 
of the actors in this savage transaction. Other men were con¬ 
tinually shot and robbed. 
A man, who had a pass from U. S. Marshal Donaldson, with a 
load of freight, was returning to his home in the territory. The 
same evening of the day he left, he returned, robbed of his money, 
wagon and oxen, and saved his life only by a promise to leave the 
territory. The men who attacked him were encamped about two 
