Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-12-07
GOOD INDIANS.
FIVE APACHE MURDEREn GONE TO
 GLORY.
The GalIows Cheated of Three of its Vic tims-The others meet their Fate HerOically. Incidents of
 the Occasion.


 HerOically. Incidents of
 the Occasion.
 For the past several days busy men have been engaged in thc jail yard constructing and adjusting the gallows upon which the five Apache Indians convicted of murder at tho last term of court were to be hanged. On We'd nesday evening everything was found to be in perfect order and tests of the strength and operation of the instru- ment of death proved good workman ship and careful preparation.
 The old arrangement of S drop plat form was discarded, and the Brooklyn plan was adopted, whereby the sub jects stand upon the ground and at the signal rope is severed and the heavily weighted countcrpoise in stantly draws up the condemned crim- inals with quick movement that dis locates the neck and produces almost instant death. By its uso the slow strangulation so often witnessed is inn possible. When all was completed, the counterpoise was charged with seventeen hundred pounds of quick silver in iron flasks, to offset the weight of seven hundred pounds of aboriginal humanity, and slack of thirty inches gave the weight a sui ficent impetus to accomplish the de- sired result in the most expeditions and humane manner.
 But while the busy workrnen pound ed away and cracked their ghastly jokes during the preparations, the condemned Indians in thS adjacent cells were made fully aware of the nature of this unusual activity and ex- hibited a keen interest in what was transpiring without the Jail
 On Wednesday the interpreters from San Carlos arrived and through them the death warrants were read to the doomed Indians. Later on they were visited by the Catholic priest-Father Monfort-and several Sisters of St. Joseph, and the serious question of preparation for their inevitable doom was discussed. Two submitted to the baptismal rites, but the old chief, Con Sha, utterly refused the proffered ministrations and preferred to die in the Indian faith which transforms the brave warrior into a solid rock, be- cause of his firmness; the sGuaw into bear because of her uneven temper, and the pappoose into fish-probably because it is only a little sucker. Con Sha been spurned the well meaning ministrations and his anger at the sympathy expressed by the kind Sis ters was quite vicious.
 The doomed Indians retired that night as usual, and they kept up their customary songs until they dropped apparently into a sleep. The guard sat in the corridor, reading Harper's Magazine to pass away the dullness of the waning hours, occasionally peer ing through the grating of the cell to see that all was right within it's dimly lighted interior. The inmates were apparently asleep, with their blankets drawn over their heads in Indian fash ion and quiet at last reigned through. out the gruesome edifice. The guard took his lunch about half-past twelve o'clock, and peered into the cell sever al times without finding anything amiss.
 About two o'clock Thursday morn ing he was summoned to the grating by one of the younger Indians, who excitedly told him that the old In. dian-Gon Sha-was dead. The guard at once gave the alarm and when as sistance arrived the cell Was entered and it was found that not only Con Sha had cheated the gallows, but Shat As-ki-say-la-ha and Pah-sla-gos-za had accompanied him upon his journey to the spirit world. The two former were the murderers of Diehl and the latter of Jones, as hereinafter set forth
 It was found that the Indians haC torn strips from their breech-clouts and passed them around their necks they then tied a secure knot by giv ing an extra twist, whereby, wher once drawn tight it could not bt loosened, even if the victim felt so dis posed. The ends of the string wers then taken by the hands of thu suicidal aborigines and drawn tightly with sudden jerk, and strangulatior followed Neither of the Indians moved during this process of self des truction and to all appearances they calmly slept beneath their blankets until the alarm was given by theil comrades.
 The evidence of Dr. A. s. Adler, be fore the coroner's jury, was that deatl had taken place between four and fiv' hours before he was called shortly after two o'clock, and therefore th' fatal knots had been tied between nine and ten o'clock on the preceding night,
 THE HANGING.
 The fatal Friday morning opened