The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-08-22

mhNl VT hAs sum ne OF. raul fTeSS, OF
the 14th contains the following statement
OF Wo-wi-nap-a, son Of Little Crow, con-
corning the death of his father:
am son of Little Grow; my name in
Wo-wi-nip-a; l am l6 years old; my father
had two wives before he took my mother.
the first one had one son, the second one
| a son and daughter; the third wife was INV
mother. After taking my mother, he p1t
away the first two; he had seven children
by my mother; six are dead; am the onIy
one living now; the fourth wife had four
children born; do not know whether any
died or not; two were boys and two were
girls; the fifth wife had i've children--three
OF them are dead, two are living; the sixth
wife had three children; all Of them are
dead; the Oldest was boy, the other two
| were girls; the last four wives were sisters
Father went to st. Joseph last spring.
When we were coming back he said he
could not fight the white men, but would
go below and steal horses from them and
give them to his children, so that they
could be comfortable, and then he would
60 away off.
Father also told me that he was getting
old, and wanted me to go with him to car.
ry his bundles. He left his wives and 9TH
er children behind. There were sixteen
men and one squaw in the party that went
below with us. We had no horses, but
| walked all the way down to the settle
ments. Father and / were picking red
| berries near Scattered Lake, at the time
he was shot. 1t was near night He was
hit the first time in the side, just above the
hip. His gun and mine were lying on the
ground. He took up my gun and fired it
! first, and then fired his own. He was shot
the second time, when he was firing his
own gun. The ball struck the stock of his
gun, and then hit him in the side, near the
| shoulders. This was the shot that killed
him. He told me that he was killed, and
asked me for water, which / gave him.
He died Immediately after. When l heard
the first shot fired, 1 laid down, and the
man did not see me before father was
killed.
A short time before father was killed, an
Indian named Hi-u-ka, who married the
daughter of my fathers second wife, came
to him. He had horse with him-also
gray colored coat that he had taken from
a man that he had killed to the north of
where father was killed. He gave the coat
| to father, telling him he might need it when
it rained, as he had no coat with him. Hi
u-ka said he had horse now, and was GO
ing back to the Indian country.
The Indians that went down with us
separated. Eight of them and the squaw
went north; the other eight went farther
down. / have not seen any of them since
after father was killed. / took both guns
and the ammunition, and started to go to
DEVILS Lake, where | expected to find
Ii
Creek | saw the tracks of two Indians, and
at Standing Buffalo's village saw where the
eight Indians that had gone north had
crossed.
I carried both guns as far as the Sheyen-
ne river, where l saw two men. I was
| milton down. After that travelled only in
the night, and as had no ammunition to
kill anything to eat, / had not strength
enough to travel fast. / went on until I
arrived near DEVILS Lake, when staid in
one place three days, being so weak and
hungry that could go no farther. | had
| picked up a cartridge near Big Stone Lake,
| which l still had with me, and loaded
| fathers gun with it, cutting the ball into
slugs: with this charge l shot wolf, ate
| some of it, (which gave me strength to travel
and 1 went on up the lake until the day l
| was captured, which was twenty-six days
! from the day my father was killed.
A TRAGEDY IN Rock ISLAND, ILLINOIS.
| We are called upon to-day to record one
of the most brutal murders that probably
ever occurred in this city. 1t took place
on Sunday afternoon about o clock, on Il
linois street, just opposite the old castle
house, and in one of the most populous
portions of the city. The name of the MUIR
dered man is Geo. w. Sinnett, a young
man about twenty-one years of age, who
was residing with his father, J. II. Sinnett,
| and the name of the murderer is Daniel
Thralkild, about thirty years of age. Both
the parties have only been residents here
| for few weeks, and were from Iowa, but
| originally from Kansas. Nothing is known
| of their previous history. The Sinnett ia
mily have the reputation of being peacea-
| BILE, and attending to their own business.
| The quarrel originated with the children,
| which the grown people took up and made
their own. Thralkild and wife told their
children to stone Sinnetts children when
they came for water. The old lady
Sinnett went into the house of Thral-
kid to expostulate with them about such
conduct, when a quarrel and high words
| arose between the women, and Mrs. S.
was forced to leave. Young Sinnett then
went to Thralkild and tried to have him
interfere and have the children do bet
ter, when they got into a fight in the
much desperation-one party being down
| and then the other-and it was about an
equal thing. Some one separated them,
when both started for the house, S. go
| ing to the front and T. to the rear, and
both entering the house. I'VE should have
stated that both families occupied the same
house, After they both had entered tho
house, each to his own apartment, broth
er of George, the murdered man, went to
Thralkild's room for the purpose of pur-
suading him from carrying the matter fur
Their, and while there brother-in-law Of
| L.
out to her husband, "Shoot him ~ "Shoot
Fhim! The brother pushed his brother
in-law out of the door and closed it, and
while doingso, Thralkild jumped out ofthe
window into a small building used as q
coal house. About this time young Sim
netts father advised his son to go to the
barn and take horse and leave for time,
at least until Thralkild cooled down.
The young man left the house and pro-
ceeded towards the barn for the purpose of
complying with his fathers suggestion, and
when nearly opposite the coal-house,
Thralkild took deliberated aim with Colt
S-inch army pistol, and fired. Young
Sinnett Immediately fell to his knees, when
his father rushed to his assistance and
raised him up, and at the same time
Thralkild fired another charge from his
revolver, which grazed the breast of the
old man, when he ran into an alley. The
young man who was shot partially rallied,
walked some two or three rods and fell,
| no halt