Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1912 — INDIANS MALTREAT A MAN [ARTICLE]

INDIANS MALTREAT A MAN

Colorado River Tribe Imprisons a Smithsonian Institution Collector, v Who Finally Escapes. San Bernardino, Cal.—Capt James Bartlett who for years has traversed the desert collecting specimens for the Smithsonian Institution, has arrived here with his face and body cut and bruised and telling a story of having been attacked by Colorado

River Indians who thought him aq evil spffiKT “When I appeared in their village," said Captain Bartlett "the Indiana were terror-stricken. They seized me and threw me into a hut about which they placed a guard. Their warriors worked themselves into a frenzy with a religious dance., “I learned that they thought I was the ghost of another Captain Barb lett, a rifle expert formerly connected with a powder company, who died several months ago in Los Angeles. It seemed that white men had read in the papers of the rifle expert’s death, and, thinking it was I, had told the Indians that I was dead. “When night came the guards about my hut relaxed their vigilance and 1 made my escape.”