Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1884 — LASHED TO A BRONCHO. [ARTICLE]

LASHED TO A BRONCHO.

An English Cattle-Owner Stripped and Tied to a Wild Pony. 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 territory of Northwestern Nebraska, has just returned from the annual “round-up” 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 nursing a young man whom they bad 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 running, and was easily lassoed by the cowboys, who cut the thongs and released the strange captive. This happened about two weeks before Boussaud’s arrival, and during 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 succeeded 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 34 years of age. About three years ago at Falmouth, England, he formed a -partnership with a friend named Thomas Wilson, some years his senior, and with him came to America, to embark in the cattle business. They cast about for awhile and finally settled in Northwestern Nebraska, where the range was unlimited, and herders few and far apart. They built a comfortable ranch by a little stream, where Wilson’s young 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 cowboys who had a grievance against Bur-bank 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 chance to make any resistance. After mutilating him Wilson had 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 was therefore unable to tell anything about his,terrible trip. He thinks that the Outrage was committed on the night of May 27, and he -was rescued on the morning of Jiune 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 direetcourse, 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 Boussaud’s men and those of the Ogallala Land and Cattle Company, whose range is near Boussaud’s.