Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-05-29
FIIE DEATH OF CANDY.

Disregarded-The Fatal Surprise and
Cruel Massacre.
Correspondence New York Herald.l
The day before the massacre Boston
Charley and Bogus Charley both came
into camp and made arrangements for
the meeting of the succeeding day.
They arranged to meet at a spot about
edge of the second inlet on the lake.
Early Friday morning, the day of the
massacre, lobe, Riddles squaw, came
to Mr.. Meacham and beseeched him
not to go out, as she was certain the In
dams meant to kill them. But the warn
ing was UNDECIDED. Gen. Candy said he
could not see how the Indians would
help their case by numbering them, with
so many troops on each side of them /;
it would be only precipitating a wal
which they seemed anxious to avert.
Mr.. Meacham and Mr.. Dyar shared
Riddles suspicious, but finally consent
ed to go. DIR. Thomas said he was sat-
isfied that the Indians meant no treach-
cry, and that he should go, as he felt
certain that the God in whom he trust
ed would guard over him while he went
on such a mission.
When the party were preparing to
start, Riddle called them all into Gen.
O1l1Ch > UcuU llo Ot1O oCllplClllSh,
I want you to hold me blameless if any
harm comes to you to-day, as I feel con-
fdent that the Modocs mean no good.
They will not shoot me, because / am
married to one of their tribe, but I
greatly fear they have t~reacherous in
tentions. Gems. Candy and Gillem
rather laughed at his fears, and the
party finally started on their mission,
from which two eve came back alive.
just before leaving, Boston Charley
asked Mr.. Dyar's permission to tie a
bag of provisions on his horse, a favor
which was granted. The party consist
ed of Gen. Candy, Dr. Thomas, Boston
and Bogus Charley, on foot, and Mr..
Meacham, MIR. Dyar, Riddle and his
squaw, lobe, on horseback. Gen. Gill
lem did not go, as he was on the sick
list, having been in the doctors hands
fol- the past three days.
They all walked quietly coward the
rendezvous and arrived there without
any incident of importance occurring,
put it was noticed that Boston Charley
stopped behind them a little and looked
about to see that there were no soldiers
about. Gen. Candy and the Peace
Commissioners, when they arrived at
the tent, were shortly afterward joined
by Capt. Jack, John Schonchin, Shack
Nasty Jim, Hawker Jim, Ellen's Man
and Black jim The party finally sat
down in a kind of broken circle. Gen.
Candy sat facing the west, with MI.
Meacham on his left. DR.. Thomas sat
to the left of MI. Meacham ; a little
md his squaw. Capt. Jack sat nearly
opposite Gen. Candy, with Schonchin,
Black Jim and Ellen's Man on his left,
and on his right were Mr.. Dyar, Shack
Nasty Jim, Hawker Jim and Boston
Charley. MI. Dyar was standing along
side of Jack during the conference,
holding his horse, and Mr.. Merchants
was tied a little in his rear. Bogus
Charley was not sitting down, but kept
rowing about in a restless manner MI.
Meacham opened the talk with a long
speech, in which he told the Indians
how anxious he was to arrange a peace
with them, SO that the President would
be pleased, and there would be no more
fighting.
While DR.. Thomas was speaking,
Capt. Jack got up and walked back to
where Meacham's horse was tied, and
her returning said aloud, "Heluck ?"
Care you ready? and, pulling his hand
out of his pocket, snapped q pistol at
Gen. Candy. This was the signal for
the murderers, and they Immediately
commenced their bloody work. There
was no hurry or confusion in their man.
ner !; each man had selected his victim,
and they had only been waiting the sig
nal. At the first snap of Capt. Jacks
pistol Gen. Candy got up and ran in a
southerly direction, followed by Capt.
Jack and Shack Nasty Jim, who both
fred at him. The poor old gentleman
ran about fifty yards, when he threw up
his hands and fell.
Bogus Charley, Shack Nasty Jim and
another Indian hen threw themselves
upon him, and, after stabbing him in
the throat, stripped him of everything
he had on. They did not leave a YES
tige of clothing on his body, and the
only portion of his apparel found was O
small black necktie.
Mr. Meacham rose at the same time
as Gen. Candy, to receive q bullet from
the pistol of John Schonchin, but he
ran off a short distance, about seventy
or eighty yards, and then fell, hot in
four places. His murderers then
stripped him to his underclothing and
then left him, as they supposed, a ghast-
ly, bleeding corpse. Poor DR.. Thomas
was shot through the head in the first
fire by Boston Charley, the t~reacherous
brute who had breakfasted with him the
same morning. He staggered q few
yards and fell on his knees, at the same
time asking Boston Charley to spare his
life. The iend replied by firing another
bullet through his head, and, at the
same time, Bogus Charley said to him,
".Why you no believe squa ~" Boston
Charley, after stripping the body of DR..
Thomas to the waist, ran to where
Meacham was lying and commenced
scalping him, when tie squaw lobe
shouted, "The soldiers are coming -
and the cowardly devil raj off. Mr..
Dyar was standing on Jacks right when
the first shot was fired, and he immedi-
ately turned and ran for camp, followed
by Hawker Jim, who fred two shots
after him. Dyar, thinking that Haw-
ker Jim was gaining, drew his Derringer
and, turning round, snapped it. The
pistol did not go off but the coward no
sooner saw the weapon than he wheeled
and ran back to where the rest of his
party were finishing their bloody work.
This whole scene was enacted in a very
few minutes, and before the troops got
on the ground the murderers were safe
in their rocky fastness.
The Muscles.