Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-12-20
SITTING BULLS DEATH.
1t is Now Claimed That He Was Murdered
i'm Cold Blood.

i'm Cold Blood.
1t is now being claimed that Sitting Bull was
murdered in cold blood. Corporal Gum of
the eighth cavalry, who was with the troops
that went out in the support of the Indian
police. says that the Indians did not like Sitting
Bull. Every Indian at the agency, except Bulls
immediate followers, was jealous of the latter's
prominence as chief, and only too glad of an
opportunity being afforded under the govern
ment protection to shoot him dead. Continu-
ing, Corporal Gum saws: Lieut. Bull Head of
the Indian police went to Sitting Bulls house,
opened the door and commenced reading the
warrant for his arrest. Sitting Bull and his
two sons, one a lad of twelve, were the only
persons in the shack. He carried arms like ali
Indians The boy came to the door and gave
cry OF alarm on seeing the house sur
than Bull Head without ''n' moments 1% pfs
hesitation, and before any resistance was Of
fered, fired at Sitting Bull the ball piercing his
breast. AS ne was staggering he managed to
draw his revolver and fired one shot while fall
ing. the bullet lodging in Bull Heads thigh
Sitting Bull fell about six feet away from the
door. His horse was standing near the house
and Red Tomahawk jumped upon it and flew to
the troops with the news that Sitting Bull was
killed. Crow Foot. the boy, was next killed.
and he fell across the body of his father. The
combat was then hand to hand, Sitting Bulls
enraged followers rising up from the brush like
magic. But few shots were fred. Guns were
dubbed, the stocks were shattered to splinters
and the barrels badly bent. The Indian police
soon found themselves handicapped and sought
refuge in Bulls deserted shack, leaving out
side four of their own dead and nine Of the
hostiles including the old chief. Shortly after the
troops appeared on the scene and the hostiles
hastily retrested.'
WHAT SITTING BULLS NIEcKs SAY.
Wilmington evening paper prints an inter-
view with Mrs. Viola Leonard, who lives there
with her sister, both claiming to be nieces of
Sitting Bull. Mrs. Leonard has all the char
acteristics of an Indian, and has lived in Will
mington, Del, for eight years. Her husband
| Il mulatto. Mrs Leonard, who claims that
| she can prove her identity, says: my uncle
body, understand, viii be brought TO WASH
ington within the next few days. I have writ
| ten to the Secretary Of the Interior for per-
mission TO see his body, but have not yet got
an answer, although expect one daily"
She further says: Our people have been
| robbed, ruined and prosecuted by the white
people, who have driven Us from the lands
| which were formerly ours, and, not content
/ with this robbery, they have now killed nv
| uncle in cold blood This country was owned
| by our people before any white men came. Now
| they have killed the chief, taken his body, and
white men come to his family to look about his
history. You shall hear nothing His history
/ will be published and the world win get H.. NV
| uncle was killed without cause or provocation
/ and ii is natural that we should feel strongly.
have two brothers yet living in the Sioux ter
| ritory. Many others Of my family left the
Sioux territory like myself and are now scat
tered over the country"
During the interview the woman was fire.
quently interrupted by now of tears.