TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1860-1916
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No. 201 LETTER FROM w. STUCKLER TO J. P. NEWCOMB [June 8, 1870) Castroville Medina County June the 1870 To the Honorable James T. Newcomb Secretary of the State of Texas, Austin Sir: In compliance with your request to present a correct State- ment of Indian outrages on our frontier, in order to rouse the attention of the Government and the nation to the necessity of giving better protection to our frontier Settlers, and also with the hope of Establishing a valid claim upon the Government for property taken and destroyed, I very respectfully will en- deavor to give a correct Statement as far as possibly, but my estimation, though copied from a petition of the same nature to the Honorble Ed. Degener Reptve in Washington will not reach the amount of property stolen or destroyed by those sav- ages and will be at least one fourth behind the real estimation owing to, that our settlers are to much scattered in the County which we inhabit, also that the village of D'Hanis and vicinity has not made any report, and time proves to short to make a complete statement. The depredations committed by Indian raids since the last five years in the County of Medina State of Texas, to wit: · Peter Ketchman age between 30-40 Reuben Smith do. George Miller about 20 yrs mutild Widow Mrs Wantz betwn 50-60" mutild William Gerdes same 60 yrs. mutild Roman Crosss about 48 " Geo. Gross 18 " Val. Tully " 50 " one Mexican " 25 " Persons Murdered by Indians from 1665- 1869. scalpd mutild
Captured by Indians. betwn 1865 to 1869 A son of Herbert Weinand age 14 years Frank Gebhard age 10 " " Horses stolen by Indians betwn 1865-1870
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