The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-07-03

people hurrying back from Red Clot d,
stating the government had placed price
on Crazy Horses head and that Red Cloud,
the great Sioux chief. had given orders TO
his people to slay Crazy Horse wherever
they found him. The Sioux were even
then on his trail Alarmed at this intelIi-
gence. as well he might be, Crazy Horse
fed TO the bills and thence back into the
mountains OF the Big Horn.
The facts about the final surrender ana
death of Crazy Horse have never been pub
lished. They we're too discreditabie TO the
government of the United States and its
officers to be allowed to see the light OF day
while Mckenzie and Crook lived.
After Crazy Horse fed to the mountains
Louis Bordeaux, a haif-breed interpreter,
and Mr.. Bear concocted scheme for
capturing Crazy Horse by treachery. They
established communication with him and
held out to the chief the inducement OF q
full pardon IL he would come in. Lieuten-
ant ]. III. Lee, an officer then OF the army,
was sent from Fort Robinson to Crazy Horse
with message that the commanding officer
at Robinson wished to see him. 1t is said
Lee guaranteed Crazy Horse safe conduct in
and out OF the post If he would come. Lee.
Bordeaux and Mr.. Bear accompanied the
chief. He was unarmed. alone, and had
to go right through Red Clouds camp
where he expected 10 be murdered. Still
putting down the curtains to conceal the
inmates they drove rapidly through the
Indian camp The Indians did not know
who was in the vehicle and the passage OF
an ambulance through their camp being OF
common occurrence, it was an hour before
the Indians found out Crazy Horse had
passed. Then they followed in hot haste,
hoping to overtake il before it reached the
fort. But the driver knew the danger and
made good time. distancing all pursuit.
When they arrived at Robinson they
drove the ambulance straight to the guard
house and Crazy Horse was taken in. He
believed he was entering the commanding
officers house until he saw the cells and
barred windows about him. In an instant
he realized that he had been entrapped
like a rat, and drawing his knife, the only
weapon he had, he bid every one stand
aside and let him pass. Captain kenning-
ton. officer of the day, told him he could
not pass out. and placed himself before the
chief, who assaulted the officer with his
knife. This was the signal for the guard
to take a hand in the murder, and
sentinel No. l, over the door to the prison,
presented himself in the doorway and came
to a charge bayonet at the chiefs breast.
Crazy Horse tried to slip by the sentinel
and thrust the bayonet aside. just as he
reached the door another sentinel appeared
and ran his bayonet into the chiefs side,
pinning him against the cheek OF the door.
Some ef Crazy Horses friends had arrived
by this time and tried to save him, but it
was too late. So quietly had the bayonet-
ing been done that few of those present
even knew what had occurred until the
chief began to stagger and finally fell
to the ground. Medical aid was
called and Crazy Horse was taken
to the hospital. The wound IN his
side was not as large as ones little finger.
but from it his life blood was fast ebbing
away. The fact of his being MORALLY
wounded was kept a secret for fear of the
Indians from Red Cloud agency, who had
now thronged the post in great numbers.
1t was given out that Crazy Horse was
merely prisoner in the hands of the gov
ment. At midnight of the day on which
the great chief was wounded he grew
rapidly worse and was in great pain. He
died at IL O'Clock, midnight. His body,
after he was dead. was given to his Indian
followers. who reverently carried it hun
dreds OF miles to the Missouri river, where
they buried it, but just where it lies no one
but the Indians themselves know, and they
will never tell a white man.