Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1884 — LASHED TO A BRONCHO. [ARTICLE]

LASHED TO A BRONCHO.

Am English Cattle-Owner Stripped and Tied to a WHd Pony. 1 Rescued After Seven Days —A Wronged Husband's Terrible Revenge. [Omaha dispatch to Chicago Herald.] M. Boussaud, a _ wealthy cattle-owner, whose herds range in the unorganized ter- | ritory of Northwestern Nebraska, has just : returned from the annual “round-up 1 * in ! that region, and relates a tale of the plains that is, in some respects, a counterpart of the orthodox Mazeppa. When Boussaud reached his ranch about the middle of June he found his cowboys nurs- \ ing a young man whom they had rescued from the back of a broncho. When discovered the modern Mazeppa was lasheh to the horse, entirely naked and unconscious. The animal was about broken down, as if from long miming and was j easily lassoed by the oowboys, who cut the thongs and released ihe strange captive. This happened about two weeks before Bo us saud’s arrival, and daring all that time the stranger had lain in a stupor. A few days before Boussaud left on his return journey to Omaha, having a little medical knowledge, he succeed, d in restoring the patient to consciousness, and his recovery was rapid. When able to talk he said his name was Henry Burbank | that he was an Englishman, and j 34 years of age. About three years ago at Falmouth, England, he formed a | partnership with a friend named Thomas | Wilson, some years Ms senior, and with | him came to America, to embark in the cat- | tie business. They cast about for awhile and finally settled in Northwestern Nebraska, where the range was unlimited, and herdtsrs few and far apart They built a comfortable ranch by a little stream, where Wilson’s youDg wife reigned as housekeeper, attended by two or three female domestics. Burbank, who is a handsome young gallant found it agreeable, while Wilson was absent riding about the range to make love to the latter’s wife. This continued for some months, until in the latter part of May one of the cowboy# who had a grievance against Burbank surprised him and Mrs. Wilson in a compromising situation, and reported it to the woman’s husband, whose jealousy had already been aroused. That night Burbank was captured while asleep in bed by Wilson and three of his men and bound before he had a chanee to make any resistance. After mutilating him Wilson has him stripped of every bit of clothing and *bound on the back of a wild broncho, which was started off by a vigorous lashing. Be fore morning Burbank became unconscious, and therefore unable to tell anything about his terrible trip. He thinks that th< outrage was committed on the night of May 27, and he was rescued on the morning of June 3, which would make seven days that he had been traveling about the plains on the horse's back, without food or drink, and exposed to the sun and wind. : Wilson’s ranch is about 200 miles from the spot where Burbank was found, but it is hardly probable that the broncho took a direct course, and, therefore, must have covered' many more miles in his wild journey. When fully restored to health Burbank proposes to make a visit of retaliation on Wilson, and in this he will be backed by Bonssaud’s men and those of the Ogallala Land aod Cattle Company, whose range is near Bonssaud’s.