St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-20
he were sound lawyer and deeply learned
in legal jurisprudence.

he were sound lawyer and deeply learned
in legal jurisprudence.
INDIAN MURDER.
Morning came. On the outskirts of the
city several of the Chippewas were on the
lookout from the top of the remains of a
hotel in lower town, which had been de-
stroyed by fire. The Sioux lived on the west
side of the river, and when they moved
across in their canoes to come to the "out
ft," the Chippewas, who had secreted them
selves the night before, were signalled as to
tower, and another signal was given when
the Sioux landed on the shore. When they
entered the ''outft,n still another signal was
given, when, in an instant, the Chippewas
opened fire into the ssoutit,'' killing sis
ter of sold Betz, ''1a well known Sioux In
dian character in St. Paul in early days,
and whose wound was dressed
by DR.. Goodrich, assisted by /. p.
Wright, wounding several In
dams and Kidding the building with balls.
Then went up one of the most unearthly
yells ever heard in even an Indian country,
and all the Chippewas rushed for the ''outft, y
no doubt instigated by the burning magma
ton of reeking scalps. Theodore Borup and
David Cakes (the latter dead), who were in
the store at the time, in the midst of the i'm
min ent danger that surrounded them, step
ped to the front, and confrontingth the savages,
charged them with cowardice in thus attack
ing and killing innocent women and chill
dren. This brave conduct on the part of
these two men held in check the Infatuated
devils, and they took their departure, Had
Judge Goodrich responded to the instincts of
his noble dog it is possible this Indian at
tack would have been avoided, for the judge,
finding a body of Indians secreted close to
his room. would at once have concluded
they were there for no good purpose, and
proper measures would have been taken to
have them sent away.
N A BAD PREDICAMENT.
In the midst of the excitement, a half
breed named Antonio Findlay, who was in
the ''outfit'' at the time ran to the rear end
of the building and climbing out of win
dow, paused a moment to view the situation.
In front of him was apparently death from the
savages; below him was 25 feet of space
with jagged rocks at the bottom. While
hanging on to the window sill in this position
the idea of being shot in the rear made him
shake so that he let go his hold and down he
went Bruised and battered, and frightened
half to death, he limped off and thus escaped
the brutal bullets of the Chippewas, one of
which graZed his foot before he leaped from
the window. A white man followed Findlay
out onto the window sill, in the same way
and at the same time, but viewing his peril
Gus situation he scrambled back in again in
to the window, and still lives to recount his
narrow escape from death
IN HOT PURsUIT-AN INDIAN KILLED.
Well, Immediately following this murder,
as it was nothing else but murder, mounted
troops were called for by Gov. Ramsey. and
in response Lieut.. McGruder, from Fort
Smelling, with body of dragons, made
their appearance, and accompanied by the
Governor started in pursuit of the flying
Chippewas, who fed toward the ST. Croix,
their old hunting grounds. Coming in sight
of the sayages the soldiers fired without Or
ders, so it is alleged; an Indian fell, was
scalped, and the balance secured as pris-
EaOners. In 1858 we visited Fort Smelling
and saw the scalp of this Indian,
then in possession of 1t. McGruder,
who subsequently took a prominent part
with the South in the Civil war. This was
the same McGruder who had possession of
one of the guns which pointed down Penn
sylvania avenue during the Inauguration of
Mr.. Lincoln. If, at this time McGruder and
some of his companions had turned their
guns upon the people of Washington, there
is no telling what would have been the re-
suit; and if the Indians had gathered their
forces at the time of the pursuit and made
an attack upon this pursuing party, they
would have wiped them out of existence, and
been also able to have seized the city itself.
But they didn't think of that, or if they did,
they were afraid to act, and the whites were
saved from terrible scene of carnage and
bloodshed.