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TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1860-1916
Mr Hudson desires to be addresesed
through me at this Post in any future communication
I ha\'e the honor to be Very Respectfully Your Obdt Servt DONALD JACKSON Act Asst Surg, U.S.A.
[Endorsed] Fort Clark May 1868
Ranson of Indian Prisoner- by Hudson
No. 176 LEITER FROM H. J. RICHARDS TO E. M. PEASE Castroville Medina Co. 18th May 1868
To his Exelency the governor of the State E. M. Pease Sir:
On the 27th of January 1866 a party of Kicka- poo Indians atacked three boys from this County who were encamped while hunting their worksteers on the Hondo, N.W. of Castroville. Augustus Rothe who was well armed saved himself but G. Jacob Miller seventeen years of age, was mur- dered after having suffered nameless tortures, and Hubert Weinand, the son of Mr Hubert Weinand, D'Hanis in this Co. at that time thirteen years old was taken prisoner, and remains to this day in captivity in the Camp of the said Kickapoo on the Rio Sabinal near Santa Rosa in Mexico. Some time ago I received information from Mexican resi- dents at Santa Rosa, that besides the said young Weinand, sev- eral other white children from western Texas, are held prisoner in the camps of the Kickapoo and Lipan and the de~cription of one girl about thirteen years of age answers to identify a child i-tolen by Indians on the Llano. This poor girl hacl implored my informants to save her. A wealth:'-· Mexican from Monclo\·a has pledged himself to buy young Weinand and to send him hack to his parents, and while I am writing-, his father came
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