| Show rugged ohio pioneer was tortured by indians but escaped the firey stake when nature fashioned simon kenton the rugged pioneer who enjoyed snuffing out indians she threw in a heaping dose of toughness enough for five men asserts a writer in the cleveland plain dealer he was the nemesis of indians when a tribe captured him one day they knew they had something of course they would put him to death but before adding that they wanted to make the most of their opportunity to reach camp they tied lied him on the back of a fiery unbridled colt and drove it through the prickliest pric kliest of the forest brush brus h when the party arrived jentons Ken tons face and limbs were bloody and raw next they tied him to a stake beat him with branches pelted belted him with stones and applied hot torches to his body they kept this up most of the night intending to wind up their orgy by burning him at the stake in the morning they untied him and made him run a gantlet with the strength that remained lie he dashed between the two lines of ng ted skins who beat him with switches clubs and even tomahawks when he reached the end he dropped to the ground unconscious the indians then displayed how unselfish they were by turning him over to other ohio tribes he ran the gantlet seven times was tortured at the stake four times and each indian took advantage to lay the punishment on hard but although his body was battered and he was felled time and again by tomahawk blows and burned with torches he lived and finally made his escape when his wounds had healed he set out again hunting and killing indians |
