WINNEMUCCA'S BRIDE STONED TO DEATH
Naches, the Piute chief, informs us that a courier who left Camp Bidwell four days ago reported old Winnemucca is alive but speechless, and liable to die at any moment.
His young wife, who he married last July, ran away but was followed by Winnemucca's friends and taken back to his camp.
She escaped a second time and was again caught when Ocholo's Indians, numbering about 60 braves, held a council and decided to kill her. They took the woman and year-old child - by a husband who died some months before she married Old Winnemucca -- to a rocky bluff and stoned both to death.
Naches sys that it has been customary with the tribe to sacrifice squaws who are suspected of bewitching men and making them sick by stoning them to death; but the excuse Ochoho's men give for killing this woman and child is that she threatened to burn down a white man's house.
Winnemucca Silver State
Alexandria Gazette, Alexandria Virginia, 19 Oct. 1882
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Naches, the Piute chief, informs us that a courier who left Camp Bidwell four days ago reported old Winnemucca is alive but speechless, and liable to die at any moment.
His young wife, who he married last July, ran away but was followed by Winnemucca's friends and taken back to his camp.
She escaped a second time and was again caught when Ocholo's Indians, numbering about 60 braves, held a council and decided to kill her. They took the woman and year-old child - by a husband who died some months before she married Old Winnemucca -- to a rocky bluff and stoned both to death.
Naches sys that it has been customary with the tribe to sacrifice squaws who are suspected of bewitching men and making them sick by stoning them to death; but the excuse Ochoho's men give for killing this woman and child is that she threatened to burn down a white man's house.
Winnemucca Silver State
Alexandria Gazette, Alexandria Virginia, 19 Oct. 1882
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WINNEMUCCA'S BRIDE STONED TO DEATH
Naches, the Piute chief, informs us that a courier who left Camp Bidwell four days ago reported old Winnemucca is alive but speechless, and liable to die at any moment.
His young wife, who he married last July, ran away but was followed by Winnemucca's friends and taken back to his camp.
She escaped a second time and was again caught when Ocholo's Indians, numbering about 60 braves, held a council and decided to kill her. They took the woman and year-old child - by a husband who died some months before she married Old Winnemucca -- to a rocky bluff and stoned both to death.
Naches sys that it has been customary with the tribe to sacrifice squaws who are suspected of bewitching men and making them sick by stoning them to death; but the excuse Ochoho's men give for killing this woman and child is that she threatened to burn down a white man's house.
Winnemucca Silver State
Alexandria Gazette, Alexandria Virginia, 19 Oct. 1882
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Naches, the Piute chief, informs us that a courier who left Camp Bidwell four days ago reported old Winnemucca is alive but speechless, and liable to die at any moment.
His young wife, who he married last July, ran away but was followed by Winnemucca's friends and taken back to his camp.
She escaped a second time and was again caught when Ocholo's Indians, numbering about 60 braves, held a council and decided to kill her. They took the woman and year-old child - by a husband who died some months before she married Old Winnemucca -- to a rocky bluff and stoned both to death.
Naches sys that it has been customary with the tribe to sacrifice squaws who are suspected of bewitching men and making them sick by stoning them to death; but the excuse Ochoho's men give for killing this woman and child is that she threatened to burn down a white man's house.
Winnemucca Silver State
Alexandria Gazette, Alexandria Virginia, 19 Oct. 1882
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