The Hickman courier., 1873-10-11
ExECUrfoN OK CAPT. JACK.
Four uodoc Braves Hung.

Capt. Jack, with the cid chief Soon
chin. aud the young warriors Black
jim and Boston Charley, were exeeu-
ted at Fort NsSamath last Friday, by
order Of Military Court Martial, Tor
he murder of General Clnby aud the
Peace Commissioners.
Capt Jack aud the OLD chief Soon
sehin protested their innocense to the
ls,t and urged that ,hey attempted TO
pursuade the young warriors Of The
tribe in favor Of peace, and against
numbering the Peace Commissioners, or
aDy Of the white settlers, but the young
braves rushed them into the troubles.
After The speeches Of Capt Jack and
Seonehin
BOSTON CHARLEY CoSFEssED.
Boston Charley then expressed
desire talk aud said
You all knew me during the war
but it seemed 10 me that l had two
hearts. one Indian and Que white.
am u bov set you all know Of what l
am guilty. Although a boy, | feel
ike a man. When | look each side
Of me think Of those men and women
Sconehiu. am not afraid 10 die. i
think am the only man ID the room.
| fought in ,he front rank with Shack
nasty, Steamboat, Bogus and Hooker
jim | am whole man, not half woman.
I killed General Candy, assisted by
Steamboa; Frauk and Bogus. Bogus
said DO you believe these eommi =
-~.os--.- - - A. r --:st
us?' | said: l Leiieve So. He said
L don't believe so; they want to lead
US into some trap. said All right;
I 20 with you Captain Anderson re-
members when Bogus came into camp
in the evening and when | came in the
morning. | would like to see all my
people, and tell them good by to-day.
would like to go to the stockade; feel
that if crimiuate other parties it
would not amount to anything.
SEE IT TOO LATE, Now,
that our chief men were not at the bot
tom Of that affair, aud they did not tax e
such a prominent part to massacree as
the young men. l am young-I know
but little When | see anything with
my eyes know it.
Boston was then asked
WHY THEY KILLED CANBY
and the commissioners. He said tia,
All the presents they received had no
influence on them. and they suspected
Candy aud the commissioners Of ftreach-
cry and got up a big mad.
Boston then made long harauguc
in which he tried to show that Jack
had no share in the massacre, and that
he had worked very hard in keeping
the young men quiet. He appeared
to lay all the blame on Bogus, and also
said that Bogus slept in white camp
the night before the massacre, in order
to disurm a'~su>p >piciOns Gen. Canby
might have had about their intentions.
Bogus thought Canby, Mescham, Gill
lem aud Thomas we're powerful men,
and that their death would satisfy them
When they saw Dyar coming in place
Of Giilem. they decided 10 kill him al
so. W hen Bogus came. IN the even
ing before the massacre, he told Rid
dies squaw he VS. going To Kill the
four. and she said, "a o and Kill them.
I am telling what know TO be true;
nothing more.
TuE EXECUTION.
Boston Charley and Blaek Jim we're
led on the scaffold first, and Sconchin
next. They tread on it with apparent
Indifference aud iron nerve, having ey>
i-ave If5ed- JACK %5Sf- reSsi7S ~ IN n
stairway, but looking wretehed and
miserable. The mauacles had been
struck off, but their arms we're securely
piuioned with cord.
TIE ROPES CUT.
It must have been an awful moment
At 10 20 they stood on The drop The
rope was cut by the assistantat the sig
ual made with Capt. Hoge's haudker-
chief The bodies swung round, Jack
and jim apparently dying easily, but
Boston and Sconchin suffering terrible
couyulsious. Boston and Sconchin
repeatedly drew up their legs, but the
two others seemed to die almost in
stantly. At 10 . their pulses were
felt by CapPxn Hogc, and, a. l write,
they are swinging lifeless iu the air.
THE HoRRIFIED SPECTATORS.
As the drop fell with torrib dead
ly thug, four poor human beings fell in
to eternity, and half smothered cry
OF horror went up from the crowd Of
FIVE hundred Klamath Indians who
witnessed the awful spectacle. Walls
Of deep and bitter anguish went up
from the stoekade, where the wives
and children of the poor fellows had Il
fair view of the sickeuing scene.
The Siamese Twin, Eng-IEiS