FIRST EDITION.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1125, 14 December 1883, Page 3

FIRST EDITION.

The following appeared in eur Second Edition of last issue : WHITE MAN BRUTALLY TORTURED BY SIX NEGROES. ■ ♦

New Orleans, October 4.—At Province, Natchitoches parish, on Sunday night, six negroes, section hands on the New Orleans and Pacific Railroad, and Ned Bradfield, or Bradford, sat down to play a game of cards. Luck was in favour of Bradfield, who succeeded, during the progress of the game, in winning all the money of the other gamesters. The losers, incensed at their losses, became violent in their demonstrations against Bradfield, and insisted on his returning the money he

had won, Naturally ho refused. An ntl nipt was then made to take from him bis money. Hu resisted violently, and so nngen-d his assailants that in their rage they threw the unlucky winner upon a log fiie 'and held him down over the Maze, holding him by each leg and nun. Br.idfiehl in his agony managed to wrench himself from the grasp of the negroes, but not till he was terribly burned. Hie hair and scalp, one hand and arm were completely burned away. In this mutilated condition he managed to walk several miles in search of assistance. Remedies were applied, but the man died in great agony on Monday. The facts of the munh r were kept concealed until yesterday, when warrants were issued for the •rn sl of the perpetrators. They are known to be a desperate gang, and are believed to have killed their section boss a few days before the assault upon Bradfield, although upon preliminary examination for that crime they were discharged, it being imposible to secure evidence against them.