Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-05
FORT KLAMATH.
The Last Of the Modoes.
A Highly Moral Spectacle.
Hanged in Sight of Their wives and
Children. e+A

Hanged fn sight of Their Wives AND
Children. s@A
JACKSONVILLE, OREGON, Oct. 4.-Iour
correspondent left Fort Klamath this morn
| ing at 1920 o'clock, and by herd riding az
rived here few moments ago. The fol-
lowing is report of the execution OF Jacz
and his band. Boston Charlie and Blacz
Jim were led on the scaffold first aud Schon-
chin next. They trode on it with appar-
ent indifference and iron nerve, having evl-
deu.ly resolved to die as brave as they have
lived. Jack went easily up the stairway,
but looked
Wretched and Miserable.
The flsnaeles had been struck off but their
arms we're securely pipioned with cord.
Atprecisely 9:45 A. NJ. the interpreters, Capt.
o. q. Applegate and David Hill, explained
to the culprits the nature of the order TO
be read to them by the Adjutant, and az
10 A. NJ. Adjutant Kingsbury read the or
ders promulgating the sentence of the com
mission and the Presidents order therein,
with the orders of the Secretary of War
and the department commander in the
premises.
The two reprieved prisoners, Barnchs and
Slatux, yet stood on the ground in front OF
the scafold, shackled and guarded. Dur
ing the reading, the pinioned victims were
seated on the platform of the scafiold with
Their Feet ON the Drops,
listening anxiously, but OF course not urs1Cr
standing word of it. The reading occu
pied ten minutes. Then the Adjutant
read the order of comm utation in the case
of Barncha and Slatux and the poor fellows
were taken back to the stockade evidently
happy at not accompanying the others to
the happy hunting grounds.
The Chaplain then offered an earnest
prayer for the souls of the culprits, which
was listened to attentively. At 10:l5 the
the fatal nooses were placed around their
.necks, under the direction of Capt. Hoge.
1t was necessary to cut off little of jacks
long hair which was in the way Of the rope.
Capt. Hoge then bid farewell to the prison
ers and the black caps were placed over the
heads of the culprits. 1t must have been
Am Awful Moment.
At 1920 they stood on the drops and the
rope was cut by the assistant at a signal
made with Capt. Hoge's handkerchief. The
bodies SWING round and round, Jack and
Jim apparently dying easily, but Boston and
Schonchin suffering terrible commissions.
Boston and Schonchin repeatedly drew up
their legs, but the two others seemed to die
almost instantly. At 1928 their pulses
were felt by Capt. Hoge, and as l write
they are swinging lifeless in the air.
As the drop fell with a terrible, deadly
thug, the four poor wretched human be-
iDgs fell into eternity, and half smothered
cry of horror went up from the crowd of
over five hundred Klamath Indians who
Witnessed the awful spec acle. Walls of
deep and bitter anguish went up from the
stockade where the rv4 --- r-ser
Wives and Children
of the poor fellows had fair view of the
shocking scene. The cofins, six in number
had been placed directly in the rear of the
gallows, two of them destined to be unoc-
cupied. The order committing the sentence
of Barncha and Slstux only arrived at 1890
P. NJ. last evening, and the preparations had
been made for them likewise.
Military Authority Superior to civil.
An application was made this morning,
by the sheriff of Jackson county, for the
custody Of the Indians indicted by the
Grand Jury, to Gen. Wheaton, but it was
refused.