Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-11-12
Indian Criminals on Their Way to Da-
kOta for Trial.

Deputy United States Marshal Charles
A. Gray, of Dakota, passed through st.
Paul yesterday, en- route for Yankton,
having in charge Brave Bear, a petty
chief of the Yanktonnais tribe of Sioux,
who is as Thoroughbred a villain as
ever scalped PROSTATE body or stole q
rivals wife, and he is particularly ex-
pert in the latter accomplishment, by the
way. The doughty Sioux was shackled
and hand-cuffed, and the precautions
we're wisely taken, for he is noted as
much for his escapes as his murders.
The writer has known him for some
years, and Is constrained to admit that
he knows of nothing to his credit. His
appearance is singularly in his favor, as
his features are regular and his smile
pleasant; but give him taste of liquor
or scent of blood and he becomes a
devil incarnate. He was wont to boast,
when counting his coups in the dances
of his tribe at Standing Rock, of having
exterminated a family at st. Josenh,
Pembina County, and would gloat over
the neatness and dispatch with which he
buried his knife in the bodies of his VIC
Tins, three of whom were children.
He speaks q little English-that is, he
will do so when apart from all other
Sioux-and told. the writer one day,
when he was In confidential mood,
that he was naturally kind-heatted, but
when he had taken whisky, or when ex-
cited by battle, some wicked spirit took
possession of him and made him ire
Sponsibly savage. He was arrested for
the st. Joseph murder, but broke Jail
and joined his tribe at Standing Rock.
He was afterward rearrested by Capt.
Tom Custer, at Fort Lincoln, but again
escaped, and did not turn up for some
time. In 1877 Lieut.. Kislingbury put
him in the guard at Fort Yates,
but he again got away, and this time, it
is presumed, joined the hostiles. But
there wasn't grub enough for him there,
and it is represented he came near hav-
ing the top of his head blown off by the
husband of squaw he tried to steal, so
he hied to fresh fields and pastures new,
and added to his record by the murder
of man named johnson, at Fort Sully,
shooting the poor fellow as he stood in
the door of his shack. Not many months
ago he returned to the vicinity of Stand
ing Rock, and Louis Agard, Henry Mar
tin and other ranchmen, catching him
in the act of stealing horses, corralled
him. Louis Agard snapped pistol at
his head six times, but none of the cart.
ridges would explode-more's the pity
and after sober second thought the
captors concluded to take him to Bis
marck and turn him over to the United
States aRthaFitjas put lh i siaf 1t id arsdd
for Johnson's murder, but the Court de-
Gliding that it had no jurisdiction, he will
he tried in Yankton next month, at the
same term in which Crow Dog, muir
derer of Spotted Tail, will be arraigned.
Brave Bear claims to be son-in-law of
Sitting Bull, which is probably fiction,
though he may have borne such a rela-
ton for time, as, when the writer
knew him, he had four wives, none of
whom had enjoyed the felicity of his
espousal more than month. He has
one Nemesis, whom he fears greatly, in
the shape of middle-aged Uncapapa
squaw, deserted by him for bach of
younger brides, but unwilling meekly to
accept the one-sided divorce and apt to
make a large hole with knife in his
copper-colored hide if opportunity
should serve.-St. Paul Pioneer Press.