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back and replaced it, except such articles as were con verted to their use upon the spot. 4 namely, provisions and clothing. Thus the remainder of the week wore away without any signs of rescue, or relief from the horrible apprehensions which preyed upon all minds. On Satur day Brouillet s interpreter arrived at the mission, riding a horse that belonged to Mr. Spalding, which caused his friends there to believe he had also been murdered, but no opportunity was given for inquiring, and on the following day the interpreter left.

Having by this time exhausted the excitement attending upon the massacre, and meeting with neither punishment nor opposition from any quarter, the chiefs determined upon adding to murder and rapine the violation of the young women and girls in their power. . The first of these outrages was perpetrated upon Miss Bewley by Tamsucky, who dragged her away from the house Saturday night, and continued to force compliance with his wishes while she remained at the mission. The sons of Tiloukaikt fol lowed his example, and took the fifteen-year-old daughter of Joseph Smith to their lodge, with the consent of her father, such was the abject fear to which all those in the power of the Indians were reduced. Susan Kimball also was car ried away to the lodge of Tintinmitsi, her father s mur derer, known to the white people as Frank Escaloom. 5 Other sufferers escaped a painful notoriety ; and one young widow was saved by the mingled wit and wisdom of Stan- field, who pretended she was his wife. 6

4 Catbine Sager testified to seeing Tiloukaikt wearing one of Mrs. Whitman s dresses, and another having on her brother s coat : From Depositions taken at the Trial of the Cayuses.

"The names of the other victims of savage brutality have never transpired, nor need any have been known but for the bitter sectarian controversy which forced these matters into notice. Spalding asserted, in some lectures delivered in 1806-67, that women and little girls were subjected to brutal treatment. Elam Young, in a sworn deposition, says: "A few days after we got there two young women were taken as wives by the Indians, which I opposed, and was threatened by Smith, who was very anxious that it should take place, and that oilier little girls should be given up for wives : Gray'ssHistory of Oregon, 483.

The day after the massacre, Tiloukaikt, finding Stanfield near the house in which the women and children were confined, asked him if he had anything in the