This, from the wire service and picked up by the local paper.
"A MODERN MAZEPPA — A Nebraska Cattle Owner Lashed to a Wild Broncho ---
For a Week He is Carried About the Plains, Without Food or Water. ---
...When discovered the modern Mazeppa was lashed 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. ... 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 settled in Northwestern Nebraska ... 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 the latter part of May one of the cowboys who had a grievance against Burbank 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. ... he was rescued on the morning of June 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. ..."
Perhaps there are alternatives to capital punishment, sometimes more fitting to the crime? --- Oh yes. This is from the July 24, 1884 issue of The Dakota Republican. *** ***
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