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FI IiST VFAR.ftiA ** •'I MtMKK I’OU KLL \\l HI-* J AM- ^ I TKI5UIIHA UK VI KV. S-eIliH Hotme Broken Into at Night bythe Brutal Assailants. ,KJftourreplavlast.17 \ — V I'ROK Iin Kivr.1:\ ! *-'^n evtl j«thetori«iorof t savioffstrngra:I the: froi«ieorge Powell, living a milt* south of I as the city on th** old K nun baa r farm, in a ; the hull**-* ow ned by William Mason w;ts at- ^Tatacked by masked moi on Satunlay 'night after Ik* ami bis family had retired. The house is situated on the hlnff of the riwr in a selt;jult;*stcr*ii sj»ot about a ijiiarter -»f a mile from surrounding abode-, i i.i* d«forh of the house werebroken ojen and two men entered with . nir . tub-. knives and revolvers, and when j tjlfcpuweil r*.-»'|u protect himself and family j aiLs he was brutally assaulted. hi- left arm f rail j broken and hi head and Insly terribly* ks.-i MiDiidoi no. There wa- in tin* house,l 1 * f i*ts | onil) lM*sidi * Towell, hi* wife, two children. I I \h* •; ind, wdio sixty years old.; j ? mid hep M Wi n Sutherland. Ihe;.^,men placed i‘ vor.«*r~ at tin* head.- ol the : a lo* women and eomn voided -ilenec, threat- a l*j eriing to kill them if they raised a cry. j *n h Broken glass «:i- thrown into the IhmI jMrs. Sutherland, the men beating her|r^ (j5fviii order that tie* gins- would inflict fuyf f*wounds. ami • truck her across fun, ' the hodv w thaciuh, then with tt revol- le!ilt; \# r again**! her he:* 1 made her -wear she : redi Would not liav* them arrested or appear °Wand; rnaiowthinla* again* I them I lie children and Mrs.J'uweJi wer. treated in a h»:r manner. {jjat . I'owe 11 and Mitherland were dragged to r|iei 1 tin* porlt;*h and with pistols at their heads ; {**11, were made lo *w«ar not to 0|* n their pos*1 heads in ngard t«* the affair. Slither- l(*nsland was hadly h**i(t**n ami up to noon to- 1 May had not had his wounds ^ MiesKe.l, Mrs Bow I 11 escape* I and *w im-1 (|(4|ainiug tin* rivei ' amc Up through the Imt-| yea,turns cm the opposite side, and arriving i payat police headrpiarlr r at 1 o'clock in the prosmorni ii: ga\ •• t he alarm. The men made ; I n clt; I 'ow ell take his household goods from menthe hoit « threatening ii lie did not they railr would hurn him out. '1‘lie grsnl.M were j imp*taken to thr lt;•oumioie adjoining (ireen-wimmI school house and a small tent pitched that afioided hut scant proteetion | 0i:pf|against Iasi night’s storm to a woman of three scon* years and a sirk child. Mrs.; j( Sutherland sat upon the steps 'ni the market house this morn- ,oUjn^t hoinele-s, friendless. without mim money or food. llei taded eye', from \11 1 w hieli tears triekcled, looked pitifully up j his lt;from the depth-oi In r black sunboimet; he i^ her time - eared face ami trembling limbsiu!M the -t. rv of time and hardships, andI litI »eeaI...i l ii'imikills voice tol.l the Htorv ol I tlVUI
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Terre Haute Daily News
Terre Haute, Indiana, US
Mon, Sep 30, 1889
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