Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-10-18
THE LAST OF THE MODOCS.

Captain Jack, Black Jim, Bostor
Charley and Shonchin, were execniet
at Jacksonville, Oregon, October Bird
The following particulars of their ex
ecution, we copy from the Memphis
/ Appeal: sers fa -4re5.
THE following is a short report o.
the execution of Captain Jack and hi:
band. Boston Charley and Black
Jim were led on the scaffold first. and
Schonchin next. They trod on it with
apparent Indifference and iron nerve
have evidently resolved to die as brave
as they lived. Jack went easily up
the stairway, but looked wretched and
miserable The manacles had been
struck off, but their arms were securely
pinioned with cord. AT precisely
forty-five minutes to nine in the morn
ing the interpreters-Capt. o. C.. Ap-
plegate and David Hiel explained to
the eulprits the nature of the order to
be read to them by the adjutant, and
at ten o'clock, Adjutant Kingsburry
read the cfder promulgating the
sentence of the commission, aud the
Presidents order therein, with the or
ders of the Secretary of the War de-
partment and commander on the prem
ises. The two reprieved prisoners,
Barnach and Slatux, yet stood on the
ground in front of the scaffold, shack
led and under guard during the read
ing: The piniOned victims were seated
on the platform of the scaffold, their
feet on the drop, listening anxiously
(but of course not understanding
word of it, to the reading. The read
ing occupied about ten minutes !; then
the adjutant read the order of commu-
tatiOn in the cases named above, and
the poor fellows were taken back to
the stoekade, evidently happy at not
accompanying the others to the happy
grounds. The chaplain then offered
an earnest and fervent prayer for the
souls of the culprits, which was list
ened to attentively AT fifteen min
utes past ten o'clock the fatal nooses
were placed around their necks, under
the direction of Captain HOge. 1t
was necessary to cut off little of
Jacks long hair, which was In the
way. Captain Hoge then bid farewell
to the prisoners, and the black caps
were then placed over the heads of all
the doomed culprits. 1t must have
been an awful moment. At ttwentymin-
utes past ten they stood on the drop,
and the rope was cut by the assistant,
at signal made with Captain Hoge's
handkerchief. The bodies swung
around and around, Jack and Jim APP
parently dying easily, but Boston and
suffering terrible convul-
siOns. Boston and Schonchin repeat
ediy drew up their legs, but the two
others seemed to die almost instantly.
At twenty-eight minutes past ten their
pulses were felt by Captain Hoge,
and as | write they are swinging life
less in the air. As the drop fell with
a terrible deadly thud four poor,
wretched human beings fell into eter-
nifty, half-smothered cry of horror
went up from the crowd of over five |
hundred Klamath Indians who wit
messed the awful spectacle and walls !
of deep and bitter anguish went up
from the stockade, where the wives |
and children of the poor fellows had |
a fair view of the shocking scene.-
The coffins, six in number, had been
placed directly in the rear of the gal
lows, two of them destined to be un-
occupied, and the order committing
the sentence of Barnacha and Slatux !
only arrived at half-past ten o'clock /
last evening, and preparations had been
made for them likewise. An applica-
ton was made this morning by the
sheriff of Jackson county for the Gus
tody of the Indians indicted by the
grand jury, but it was refused by Gen
eral Wharton"