Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1882-11-17
JERKED INJIN''.
Brave Bear Gone to The Happy Hunting
Ground via the Short Line Route.
He Dies Game. i.s lat#l
In envy Of INSANITY Crazy HoOsier
Converts His Happy Home into a
CharDel House. W.,
Jerked Bear Meat.

YANKToN, OAK, Nov. l5.-Brave Bear,
Sioux Indian chief, convicted of the muir
der of Joseph johnson, near Fort Sully on
the 18th of May, 1879, was hanged to day
in the jail yard, execution being private
The Indian was taken from the Jail to
the United States marshal's Office in one
of the upper rooms and there bound with
straps, leaving his feet free SO he could
walk to the scaffold. After his arms
ironed he called for man who could talk
Indian, and with but little delay an inter-
prefer was procured from outside and
Brave Bear had few moments private
conversation with him in the Sioux Ian
guage. He made no confession but did not
deny the deed for which he was convict
ed He asked the interpreter to send
word to his people to make no attempt to
avenge his death, to kill no horses and
omit all customary mourning exercises
He also asked that the message he had
sent to his people be conveyed to the
president of the United States that the
great father might know he had given good
advice At the conclusion of his talk
Brave Bear was led to the place of execu-
ton, just on the side of the building. He
mounted the scaffold with a firm treadand
stood upon the trap which was soon to
drop from beneath hlm and hurl him in
to eternity. His legs were securely PIN
loned by straps and buckles, rope adjust
ed about his neck and the awful moment
arrived The black cap was drawn over
his face and then most of the attendants
stepped back to the sides of the platform.
Brave Beal beginning to weaken it was
necessary for couple of officers to stand
near to sustain him. In his nervous agi-
tation he caught hold OF a dropping rope
as it swung in front of him and he clung
to it with the fingers of his pin,oned
hands and an officer released his hold and
moved the rope back out Of his reach.
| Thus be stood bound hand and foot with
his head covered by black cap awaiting
the signal which was to end in instant
death. The priest advanced to his side,
whispered few words Of prayer
and then stepped back to the edge of the
platform. The officer in charge pulled a
string, which rang bell in the marshaPs
office, when man concealed in the room
in response to the signal, jerked a rope
attached to the trigger under the scaffold
and at 1890 the drop fell and the Indian
sho' though the opening, and as the
rope pulled there was cracking sound
He struggled for few moments but the
end came quickly. Soon there was moth
ing but convulsive twitching Of the mus
cles, and in fifteen minutes from the time
the drop fell Brave Bear was pronounced
dead by the attending physicians. Fif
teen minutes later the body was cut dowr
and delivered to the undertaken, wht
caused it to be buried in the Catholic
cemetery. There was little excitemen
attending the execution. Everything wa
orderly aud the affair was consummatet
without accident. This is the first in
stance where an Indian has been hung IL
Dakota for crime against the white man