The New York herald., 1873-10-03
IN EXPECTATION.
Waiting for the Curtain to Rise ON the
Last Scene, Last Act of the Tragedy
The Gnllows Ready-Charncter Of the
Cuiprits and Their Degrees of Guilt.
Fort KLAMATH, Oregon,
Via JACKSONVILLE, Oct. 2, 1873.

Via JACKSONVILLE, Oct. 2, 1873.
The preparations for the execution Of Cap
tain Jack, Sconchin, Boston Charley, Black
Jim, Barncho and Sioux are now completed,
and by about three P. NJ, New York time, on
the day of the publication Of this despatch
the murderers of General Candy and DR..
Thomas will have expiated their crime on the
gallows. I say about three p NJ, as although
the execution will take place at about eleven
A. M. here, we are really four hours later than
you are in the Eastern States. Nobody
il this section of country has the
who cannot even lay claim to the
want Of knowing better and pleading ignor-
ance e our laws and customs. For the past
twenty-five years the Modoc tribe have
mingled with the whites, and to far greater
extent than any other Indian people in this
quarter of the State, and have thus become
more civilized and obtained better
KNOWLEDGE OF RIGHT AND WRONG.
Captain Jack, although rather poor Eng
lish linguist, has been trading with the whites
for the past twenty summers, and not year
scarcely passed away without his putting in
an appearance in Yreka at the fair with a
large portion OF his tribe. So forcibly were
these visits impressed on his imagination that,
in speech he made to me in the lava beds in
the latter part of February, he made use of the
expression
II want to live like white man to go
into store and buy things"
Captain Jack knew perfectly well what
crime he was committing when he shot Gen.
eral Candy, but everything had to succumb
Hooker Jim and the Curly-headed Doctor had
so stirred up the tribe that unless he led them
on TO murder they would select some other
chief of more bloodthirsty intent.
JACKS 8 SISTER IN DEFENCE OF HER BROTHER
was talking yesterday with Mary Jacks
sister, and, savage as she is, the approaching
fate of her brother affects her very much. She
is deep in her denunciation of Sconchin
and the Curly y-headed Doctor, and
insists that it was only through their
persistent and determined action in haran-
guing and otherwise writing blood in the
minds of the tribe that Jack, in order to
retain his ascendency as Chief, was obliged to
take the lead in the execution of their fiendish
designs. No one entertains the slightest pity
for Sconchin, as in every deed of blood he has
been foremost and used his influence to incite
the younger men of the tribe to further atroci-
ties In November he led the murderers on
Lost River; in February he endeavored to
incite the tribe to murder the visitors to his
camp in the lava beds, and, lastly, we find
him
THE NsT1GAToR AND MAIN CoNsPIRAToR
in the plot to murder General Candy and the
Peace Commissioners. AS next in rank in the
tribe to Jack, he accepted the task Of dispos-
ing Of Meacham, the chief of the Peace Com
mission, and, although Providence interposed
and saved the life of his would-be victim, it
was through no fanlt of Sconchin's that
Mr.. Meacham was not added to the list of the
slain on that fatal day.
Black Jim and Boston Charley will also
suffer without exciting the pity of any, as they
justly merit the punishment they will receive.
Boston Charley is, in my idea, one of the
worst of the whole party. He was going about
before the massacre as the messenger be-