Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1826-09-08

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Our informant states that T" "a band oil
Winnebagoes were encamped about
fourth OF a mile from the place where
Mitod was making sugar. About two
days alter the murder was committed,
the principal Indian OF the band came to
Prairie do Chein and gave the Informa-
ton, thai French family had been mur.
oered and burnt, by the Sioux Indians
But from the contradictory accounts
which he gave, he was suspected to be
enc of the murderers Lieut.. Scott, of
the army, was despatched to examine
The truth OF the report, and on arriving
al the place, he found the cabin in which
the deceased had lived, burnt to the
ground, and found the man, woman, and
three children, lying on their backs, with
sticks OF wood ucross them, their limbs
burnt of, and their bodies almost con-
sumed also trunk, known to belong
10 Milod, outside OF the cabin, broken
open, with fresh blood on il, aud child's
shirts beside it. He also found, on The
palh leading from the cabin to where
tie Indians were encamped, several ar
ticles known to belong 10 Milod, scat
tered along as though they had dropped
from blanket, by accident, while car
ryiag them off. These circumstances ap-
peared SO strong against The band OF In
dams encamped at that place, that Col.
Morgan, at the request OF the III Magistrates,
sent some soldiers under Lieut.. Scott, to
assist the militia in experimenting them.
Alter being brough, TO the fort, the In
tiians, about twenty IN number, we're ex-
amlned, and two of them committed to
Jail, from which they made their escape.
The Indians eSamined denied any
knowledge of the murder; but stated
thar or three days before they cross.
ed the river, some OF the women had been
to the Frencbman's and had got in an
apron, some sugar and -four, and that
they had crossed The river only on the
day OF the murder, that two days alter,
one of them returned to the cabin with
some ducks to pay for the sugar and
flour, and found the people as before de-
scribed. Since the escape OF the In
dams from Jail, Information was receiv-
ed from woman of the Winnebago
tribe, that the two who were in Jail, to-
gether with FIVE other Winnebagoes,
were concerned in the murder.
Son or about the Goth OF May last,
Col Morgan, then commanding Fort
Crawford, at Prairie du Chen, on the
Mississippi, received orders by mail TO
abandon the fort, and to repair with the
two companies under his command to
Fort Smelling, ST. Peters, and by the
same mail he received another order an
sicipatiug his having removed, and Or
elering him back to Prairie do Chcin,
with two additional companies, to appre-
heud the Indians who committed the
murder on Mitod, and remain until fur
,her orders. Two additional companies
have since arrived. The Winnebagoes,
with the seven supposed murderers,
were, in the beginning OF the month,
met on the WIconsn, with large band
oil their nation, going to Prairie do
Chem, as they said 10 hold council, but
not TO deliver up the murderers, still
saying that it was not the Wnnebagoes
VIM ndh tuO Gbd ti0t
they had made the supposed murderers
8 Hiss a cross, and swear like the French
people, and they say they are innocent.
s. Grea, danger is apprehended from
the Wiunebagoes, by the citizens OF
Prairie du Chem, il the troops abandon
she fort. Ii is probable thai all the in-
habitants tina, are known 10 the Indians as
American citizens, will be obliged in
sha, case, to leave that place Tor safety.
81 Prairie du Chem is the depot of ali
the Indian goods Tor the trade OF the up.
per Mississippi, where the Winnebasoes
(who inhabit the immediate vicinity
can al any time supply themselves, by
pluudcr, with ammunition and other me-
cessayies for several years."
Herald.