DeSoto County Louisiana Archives News.....A Diabolical Outrage. (Attack on Susan Ridgway) September 9, 1871

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Ouachita Telegraph (Monroe, LA) September 9, 1871
Ouachita Telegraph (Monroe, LA)
Saturday, September 9, 1871
Page 1, Column 5
                           A Diabolical Outrage.
  Last Sunday night, between 8 and 9 o'clock, two men visited the residence of 
Mr. R.F. Ridgway, about 12 miles southeast of this place, with the avowed 
purpose of killing or whipping his wife.  They saw her in the yard and 
immediately seized her by the throat.  One of them attempted to cut her throat; 
but in the struggle Mrs. R. threw up her hands and the fiend's knife struck her 
head, cutting a quantity of hair from her head.  They then threw her to the 
ground and choked her until she was insensible and left her for dead.  Her head 
and neck were badly bruised.  Her husband was in the house, but she did not 
have an opportunity of calling to him, so quick and sudden were the movements 
of the would-be assassins.  She is still alive, although at last accounts she 
was in a critical condition.
     We do not know that there is any clue to the perpetrators of this fiendish 
act.  We hope, however, there is; and we do hope they may be ferreted out and 
have that punishment meted out to them they so richly merit. - Mansfield 
Reporter.

Additional Comments:
The 1870 De Soto Parish Census shows Richard Ridgway married to a woman named 
Susan.

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