Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-21
AN INDIAN TRAGEDY.
"A Curious Story Of jealousy and Frat
ricide from the Woods Of Canada.

"A curious SIOfy OIL jealousy ana Frat.
ricide from the Woods Of Canada.
Mr. Charles Rankin, an officer of the
Hudson Bay company, has reached
Toronto with the details of brutal
Indian murder in the Nippissing region
the murdered man being Canachintch
chief of the Temagamingues and the
murderer his brother Shargosee, the
Moose Calf The brother, with Shar-
gosee's wife, daughter, and son, were
travelling together on hunting expe-
dition in the Round lake country
Canachintch, or Cleft-in-the- Rock, had
three wives, with the youngest of whom
he suspected that Shargosee was too in
innate. AS they sat by their campfire
one night Canachintch began to sing a
favorite Indian song, which runs some
thing in this strain:
: He was my brother and loved him;
bathed his temples when he was weary
| killed him food when he lay in fever;
But while hunted he loved my love.
0. false and wicked brother
Who, while hunted. loved by love.
Shargosee felt that this song was
aimed at him, ard he ordered his
brother to stop singing. Canachintch
then addressed Shargosee's wife, telling
her that her husband loved other wo-
men, and bidding her return to her
father, the chief Karawee, who lives
near Mattawa. He also made a speech
to Shargosee, in which he upbraided
him for his conduct, and to Shargosee's
son and daughter, in which he deplored
their fathers crime, which he said
would cause them to be hated and
despised by the whole Temagamingue
nation After this the chief withdrew
from the fire and, retiring to a swamp
near by, chanted the Indian song of
desolation" as evidence that he was in
great grief Shargosee and family re-
tired also, but about daylight the former
reused his son Louis, lad of 8, and
told him that though his eyes had been
closed he had not slept for he had made
up his mind to kill Canachintch Louis
cried but his father threatened to Kill
him ALSO The father and son then APP
preached the swamp where Canachintch
was still singing his mournful song.
shargosee asked him how he felt, but
Canachintch turned his back to him, on
which Shargosee drew an axe from his
belt and struck him on the back of the
head Canachintch rolled over into the
swamp, but managed to stagger to his
feet. Hewas man of great strength,
although upward of 20 years old, and,
Selling stick of wood, cried out that
he would not die alone. He reached
forward to strike Shargosee but stumbled
over a log, and the latter struck him
another blow with the axe, splitting his
skull. The lad Louis on this ran back
to the fire and awoke his mother and
sister, who on seeing him dragging his
brothers corps toward them, vehement
" denounced him as murderer
Shargosee was enraged at this, and
dropping the body rushed at his daugh-
er, whom he accused Of having been
intimate with Canachintch. She fled
and Shargosee's wife held on to him
until she was far out of sight. The girl
recalled Mr.. Rankin's post at Round
lake that evening and a party returned
with her to the scene of the murder
They found Louis and his mother sitting
by Canachintch's body, which Shargosee
had mutilated in dreadful manner.
Shargosee himself was found next
morning in the woods and was arrested
and taken down to Mattawa jail. Judge
Doran, of Toronto, left to hold the
preliminary inquiry. Shargosee's de-
Tense is that he killed Canachintch be-
cause of his intimacy with his daughter,
but sbr and her mother and brother,
who are detained at Mattawa as wit
nesses, deny that, and tell the story as
it is given above.