Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1883 — ROASTED AND WHIPPED. [ARTICLE]

ROASTED AND WHIPPED.

An Old Man’s Barbarous Treatment at the Hands of Colorado Bobbers. » [Denver (Colo.) Telegram.] At Petersburg Grove, seven miles from this city, resides an old bachelor farmer named Peter Olsen, who usually kept small sums of money about his premises. At night four disguised men went to the house and knocked. The farmer asked the visitors to come in. As soon as all were inside they seized Olsen, threw him on the floor, and demanded to know where his money was. He replied that he had none. After thoroughly searching the house to no purpose, Olsen still refusing to tell where the money was hidden, the robbers got willow switches and whipped their victim on the bare feet and legs until they were covered with blood. Olsen still refusing them, they built a large fire in the back yard and carried him out, and proceeded to execute their threat to burn him alive. They placed his feet in the fire, and literally roasted them. Even this terrible treatment did not induce him to give up his hidden treasure. He was then compelled to walk back to the house, where a scuffle ensued, during which the stove was overturned, disclosing a box containing S6OO, which the robbers took and decamped. There is no olew to their identity. Olsen will probably recover.