Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-10-08
LAST ACT IN THE M0DOC DRAMA.
Execution Of Four OF the Murder
eTS,
Two Of them Reprievsd at the Last
Moment. &.
aid for the Memphis Sufferers.
HON < EWS.
Hanging of the MOdOes.

JACKsoNvILLE OREGON, Oct. 4.-The
CORES pondent of the Associated Press left
Fort klamath this morning at 1880
O'Clock, and by hard riding arrived here
late this evening, with the following re-
port Of the execution OF Capt Jack and his
band Boston Charley and Black Jim
were led on the scaffold first, and Schon-
chin next They trod on it with apparent
indifference, having evidently resolved to
die az bravely AS they lived. Capt. Jack
went easily up the stairway, but looked
wretched and miserable. The manacles
had been struck off, but their arms were
securely pinioned with cords.
At precisely 9:45 A. NJ, the interpreters,
Capt. o. G. Apologize and David Hill, eX-
planned to the prisoners the nature of the
order to be read to them by the Adjutant
and of 10 o'clock the Adjutant, Kingsburg
read the order promulgating the sentence
of the Commissioner, and the Presidents
order theron, with orders of the Secretary
of War and the Department Commander,
in the premises. ...-.
The two reprieved prisoners, Barncho
and Slolu yet stood on the ground in front
of the scatfold shackled and under guard.
During the reading the prisoner victims
were seated on the platform of the scatlold
with their feet on the drop, listening anN-
iously, but of course, understanding not
a word of it. The reading occupied ten
order and Communication in the case of
Barncho and Slolu, and the poor fellows
were taken back to the stockade, evidently
reioiced at the thought of not having to ac-
company the other prisoners to the happy
hunting grounds" -n.
The chaplain then offered earnest and
fervent prayer for the souls and culprits,
which was listener to attentively. At 1918
the fatal nooses were placed around their
necks, under the direction of Capt. Hoge.
1t was necessary to cut Oft y little of
Can't Jacks long hair, which was in the
way of the rope. Capt. Hodge then bid
farewell to the prisoners, and the black
caps were placed over their heads. All the
culprits at 10 o'clock and twenty minutes
stood on the drop and the rope was
cut by the assistant at the signal made
with Capt. Hodges handkerchief The
bodies swung round and round, Jack and
Jim apparently dying easily, but Boston
aud Schonchin suffering terrible conYul-
sions. Boston and Schonchin repeatedly
drew up their legs, but the other two
seemed TO die almost instantly. AT lO.2S
o'clock their pulses were felt by Capt.
Hodge, and as this is being written they
are swinging lifeless in the air. AS the
drop fell with terrible, deadly force, the
four poor wretched human beings fell into
eternity, and the half smothered cry of
horror went up from the crowd of over five
hundredIKlamathI Indians, who witnessed
the awful spectacle. The walls of deep
and bitter anguish went up from the
stockade where the wives and children Of
the poor fellows had fair view of the shock
ing scene. Collins, six in number, had
been placed directly in the rear OF the gal
lows, two of them destined to be unoc-
cupied, as the order of committing the
sentences of Barcho and Sioux only ar
rived at 1875 o'clock last evening and the
preparations had beed made for their exc
cution with the others. An application
was made this morning to Gen. Wheaton
by the Sheriff of Jackson county, Oregon,
for the custody of the Indians indicted by
the Grand Jury, but was refused