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Show A (.i-odf- lor TWr 11 Y-r. Miss Je-wii.- Laet'Ujt-w. who 13 ina.kity ; a sliurx vL-it to this city. &ay The sein Fnuicisi.t) dill, has a romtuitic history. She in the st-1 -daughter of Gen. Liireato. ; a n.-lirvd Mexican otiicvr, who Uruauie u , titizeii of tht L nitevi States oumy ycuns i ago. iiiss Juaie w:ts titulfn from her rarents iii lbTl by the H:uii:to tribe of Indians uf nortiieru Khiho. For thirU-en yeurb ber parents were unaware .f Iht where- ! aLMjuts, uiid many times had jfiven her' up tur denii. The matter was broiiglit to 1 the atU-IilU'M of tile L'uiU'd Staleo j;ov-j ermiJi-iH and a -iearcii b.-Tu. CI en. Sheridan was the man (k-k-cti-d to look : up tin-cast;, and alter a pruli-n.ctt.-d in-1 Vfstiittion, in which the uViuruui-nt at ' 'u.ihiii)luu e.end-d many thousands of dollars, and during which uiauy livtu 1 were U-st. she was rescued Aug. 7, lbt4. ! The guide wliom Gen. Sheridan wii-ployed wii-ployed during his Bearch was the famous Do&h Kensington, a great Indian bcout and fruiitieuinn. iMiss L;u-omber is a woman perlmps 20 , yeais of age. and although givutg no evidence evi-dence of careful education, is Ljuite intelligent, intel-ligent, and is nut in any wise reticent about relating the hintory of her captivity. cap-tivity. Wlien she im-ivcd at the age of 18 one of the chiefs of the Bauittos decided that he would make her his wife. She indignantly indig-nantly refused, declaring that bhe wished to go back to her parents. in order to force her to marry the copper colored captain tho Indiana re- i sorted to easy methods of torture, but, finding it impossible, gradually increased the dose. Asevidenceof the ordeal which she. sull'ered Miss Lacomber now exhibits sixteen wounds, the result of knife gashes, on her person. Finding they could not prevail upon her to comply, the barbarians forsook their brutal methods, and for the remainder of her stay contented con-tented themselves with keeping a strict watch upon her movements. After being rescued Miss Lacomber went to her home only to lind that her father had been killed by Mexicans along the Rio Grande for participating in clearing clear-ing some renegades from Texas. |