Sauk Rapids frontierman. [volume] (Sauk Rapids, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1860, 1857-08-20

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aal o llAlls tysrs IN sxo lIndiia lRsl
|ss. \ BfsSd I ne h 'l, between
s'wan River INA I'M u, N VI
Iday sweating Il about clock, by tile
cisizsns NJ Little r Ils, swan Riy, w ma
vieI0nies ior niiird sriing man " sti dI
HIsaks supposed ~ bs n peddlsr, under
CIV n lol!Iowing circumstances. These,
indians And the half bre edtattacked him
With stones beaiing Him a 4 shocking
manner ana I'M him but before they
hsd got iar, mel ~ Indian With 4 bottle
~ whisksy who treated thsp. While
sanding there they hsaird sthe groans 81
lfle man and WI nt buck and dispatched
Him and buried him hnder TIE sand w
|shalloxl that y pun of his head and his
feet could ~ sseiil Bill for two Indian
women Who sav ihsm IA tlie act 81 bury
linz thesbody thsys might not have been
Iimlned iately detected. These women
nt once gave the alarm ~ the Mission
Station, Il NY place, aha JehnaQa and
Iolhsr indians WIN nm ,iI| n;
went IND arrested the three tobkk them
~ Grow Wing, and delivered athem 10
1.-THE whites there, who took them "a ~
Little Falls and put them into tho hands
|ofs Mr Pue, the Sheriff of Morrison
County He Bound them, g,ot 4 team.
and started on down. with the idea d
taking them 10 st. Paul, and delivering
them over ID the authorities there. HE
proceeded with the prisoners KS q little
below Platte River, when he was over
taken ~ several teams loaded with mnn
who wrested The prisoners, holding the
Sheriff until the former were put into
other wagons. when I'll turned back ID
Swan Rirers a ifer Nh had iaken sup
Iper, they went about half way 10 Little
Ealls PM u pole pn The branches 81 Two
trees, which they found sufficiently close
Together for ~ purpose. dlroy ,is i wagon si
which contained the prisoners under the
pole, put i board across the hind end 81
Ithe wagon, on which the Indians were
Eplaced standing, adjusted q rope. around
the neck Of each, after which Inc horses
were started suddenly the eulprit.
iell md after . INV 81 gies lifs b..
Ecagne extinct
they we're n lowed 70 hang there IN
lit morning when the party returned I'd
1.-The spot, cut them down and buried
1.-The bodies. The HalEbreed deaiedsun-
| 81 the last moment TINT lie participated
flin lhe mard then owned ihat he struct
| the first blow and ncknowled sed the
Justice IF the punishment about to "
lindicted upon him, raging The Saviour
|Eto lorglyc him One of TIE Indians
when \ st y foE,s \ M put around his neck
lfsiis degggst forward Us il anxiisa.us II
| rob others 81 the deed The Half.brees
seemed M realize his sitnatiod, but I'M
Indians bore il Ill with The most stoiica
llindi ference. n seems 4 man by. hi
mime VI lkisk Who Eus.s been auaosit
fhs Indians q o 81 mora d, 81 I, hui
1been susp tes d of ilstig 80 Inai
inns ~ commit dispred ations upon IL,
ssI,ites Ghn panied ths .la ,iiEIIIi
l5slown aiad was taken h6cIx with Hui aal
tlpn Platte Riyss.saad WA given d ID
dsrstaad tls she mig t share he fate 3
|Itls three othess bat while Inc part,
1weIt out ihe execltion he mad,
l sssaps and came dawn III sam,
4 ne A as y atab, and the MI
inofai1s 4 fida went On down. |,
/ ISt.a P I Norshrup. of Swan River
prsaais|s 4 III zena III ssa.nk olhes amer
1 /! q lssa in that MY This II as M
/ sy IS l y l'ahislksy u s nj " III II,
Gott ~ n n all NJ a W much inist ksn
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