Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-05-30
EARLY HAxeases AT VICTORIA.
Victoria Colon'st.

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The first person hanged on vsncosyef
Island xss an Indian. who had nahoe'
"a Hudson Bay Company > snspnelo a.
Christmas Hill. nesr where SanAilulan,
farm is nov. The eulprit and MS TRENDS
showed fight, but Governor DonRbSs
walked into the hostile camp, seized tue
man aud bad him strung 1p as wsfh-
inc 10 all murdeTously inclined saVages-
This vas IN lsJA
About the same rear the Cevlcn ans
rsbellsd and q naval force Was landed
and sent against them. they selzs1
the offenders, hanged all who deserved
Il and punished others IN varioss ~sys
and there was no more trouble Win
that tribe until ArehIe-wan. Lesser
Coxichan chief, in 1853, murdered =
white family, fed 70 small island WIN
about 20 followers, intrenehed nlmseii
there and declared var against the
whites. The guDboat Forward. com
nanded by Captain Lasceiles. was SEN
against tse rebels They nred ana
killed one of the sailors. The gnnooai
raturnsd for heavier guns ana sheiieu
the Notifications, after which the ma,
riues aud sailors landed and captured
Arehis-wan and five of his cand and
brought them 20 Victoria Tor trial
They we're convicted OF murder and
were all hanged, on a beautiful sunne'
morning, ia the space IL front OF tns
police barracks. Several other Indians
we're hanged in the same space within
the next few years, and then came tn'
law which made executions private.
The most notable cases since loH
were those OF George Bell and Thomas
| SchoOley, both white men. Bell was
coal miner, aud worked on the day shii
IN the Vancouver Coal Comp ny
| mines. He had for wife an Indian
woman, and for a nsighbor anothe
coal miner. who worked on the nlgn
shift. 80 that as one went 70 work th'
other came from it. An arrangement o
the BOX and Cox" order sprang mp be
tween Bells Indian wife and the neigh
bor: but in the result the wronQed THaI
discovered all, and gave the neignoo
two hours ia which to leave t9wn. III
latter went TO Departure Bay, whittier n
was followed some days Afterwards b,
Bell and shot down. he was then beat
en- with the butt OF pisfJl and hacke'
with knife until bis body lost all sem
blance of humanity. Bell was brough
to Victoria, tried, convicted and hange
from the same pallows from whic
I.emon v i'll be suspended on Saturday
The case of Schooley was a very pecu
| liar one. He was one of the origins
locators of the Hope silver lead, nm
was supposed to be very wealthy, whe
he courted and won the hand of Mis-
PormaA, pretty young English cir
daughter Of ex-oouncilor Harry F0rmaI
who kept bar at the corner of Fort an
Wharf streets. After marriage Sohoole
took TO drinking. and one dark wint'
evening, while his wife Was sitting
dinner in her fathers house, with hs
ehild on her knee, he appeared at q
door of the room and fired revolver
her. She was unframed and fled fro
the house. Schooley then fired twice
Forman, shooting him through the har
and baak. Forman and the rest of d
family ran to neighbours. Schools
barricadsd himself in the house Al
fred at all who approached, until abo
3 o'clock in the morning, when repoI
or ON the Colonist crawled through wi
dow and seized the murderer as he ID
on the floor in drunken stupor. FC
man died the next day. and Schooley "
: convicted aud hanged sson afterwar
on the same scafiold that had been pi
pared for Bell.