Eureka Reporter | 1904-10-14 | Page 2 | Bound to Tree

BOUND TO TREC young oregon man victim of reverse of R va out of spite it Is thought and evi denly in order to put M kelly of kel so wash out of the way so as to pre vent his marrying a young woman who had refused the attentions of a less successful suitor kel ey was seized gagged and buckled bound by wire to a treo in a dense wood and abandoned to die for a per od of four days from monday until friday last when he was d sc and released saturday the auns woman enose preferment for kelley had nearly caused his death procured a marriage I 1 cense and late fie same day the couil were married ke ley is almost a physical wreck but from the scraps of story which he has agn en in intervals of conscious ness it aou d appear that last monday he started from the home of a friend to go to kelso en route to kalama wash the county seat to procure a marriage 1 nse on the way he was se zed bound and bl nd folded by two persons one of whom was d as a woman he was then trapped to the back of a horse and taken to the woods where be was bound to the tree and compelled to suffer ulment enable cruelties thursday a note was found on the door pot of one of kelley s friends stating the man s pred cament and whereabouts and his friend at once proceeded to the place and released him the perpetrator of the crime Is said to be a man who has for several months endeavored to force his atten eions upon the young woman