Show TERRiBLE TORTURES r Treatment of Defenseless Prisoners by the Apache When the Apaches capture a White man woman or child they first strp them of their apparel tie their hands and if in a hurry lead them with a rope at a rapid rate of speed over rough trails for long distances Camping they lash their prisoner tight to a cactus for the night On the march they will tannt you in your own language asking you if you prefer a carriage to ride in During the night while you would be lashed naked to a prickly cactus the boy Apaches would shoot their arrows at you and approach and stick them into you and then approach again and pull them out of your flesh Some of these young fiends better than the rest would approach and cut off your ears When the time for your torturous death arrived they would cause a rattlenake to bite you in the lace Then they would place a quantity of burning coals beneath your feet and with pinchers tear off your fingernails This would be followed by skinning your arms and legs then taking off your scalp and slapping it in your face During all this tune the squaws would act like demons committing nameless mutilations If such a method as the above should not be adopted they would extend you on the ground and drive a pole or whittle tree through from end to end or they would hang you up by the feet to the limb of a tree and build a fire under your head The entire variety of their torture is only known to themselves and the tortures tor-tures performed by the sqaaws are such a description as to prevent their being published in any newspaper Another method of torture after mutilation is to bury the victim alive in the solid earth up to his neck and bat the head off with clubs or leave him thus helpless to die These are only a few of the many torturous tor-turous deaths inflicted by the Apaches and many persons who are exposed in their vicinity carry derringer pistols with which to blow out their own brains in case they are surprised and have time to do so before they are in the grasp of the TombstoneArizoni Democrat Demo-crat |