The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-07

Tor tho murder OF his father 1n-law, WIN
Hill, just across the river in the Oheroke
was hung on the nth of April, 1886.
James Arcine and VIM. Parchmeal. Cher
okees, were hung on the 26th of June. 1881
for the murder of an old German names
Feigel, moro than twelve years previous.
Joseph jackson. a negro, and James
WATSON, q white man, We're hung April ~
1856. jackson for tho murder of his wife, u
Skullyville, ChoctMw Nation, March 8, 1885,
and WATSON for the murder of Henry Mar
tin. in the Chickasaw Nation, in 1882.
lincoln Sprole. white, and Calvin James
a negro, were hung July %. 1886. Sprole fol
the murder of Benjamin Clark and his Sol
Alexander, in the Chickasaw Nation, May
30, 1885.
kit Ross, part Cherokee, was hung Au-
gust 6, 1856. for the murder OF Jonathan
Davis, at Choutcau, Cherokee Nation, De-
cember 20. 1886.
T. j. Echols, James Lamb and Albert
O'Dell, all white men, and John Stevens, a
negro, climbed the golden stairs toCethe,
on January "a, 1887. Lamb and O'Dell
murdered Ed Pollard in the Chickasaw ma
tion, December 26, 1885; Echols killed John
Pettenridge in the Chickasaw nation, Feb
ruary l6, 1856; Stevens killed DIR. James Il.
Pile, Mrs. Annie Carr and her son Lewis,
on the night of May %, 1886, in Delaware
district, Cherokee nation, but for what mo-
tive no one knows.
Patrick McCarty was hung April 8, 1887,
after twice being respited, for the murder
of the Mahonsy brothers. on or about Feb
ruary II. 1856. for the purpose of robbery.
Seahorn Green and Silas Hampton. both
full-bloCdod Indians, were hung October IL.
1887. Green murdered Mark kuykendall,
Henry Smith and William Kelly, near Eu-
faula. Creek nation, January II. 1887.
Green was in custody of Deputy Marshal
Phillips on a trivial charge, and left him IN
10 ~ ~ in rh0 rpo Of thpSa man and hB mnr-
dered them during the night with an ak
and escaped. A little later on Phillips and
his posse, q young man named Whlsson,
were murdered in tho same locality by the
Barnett gang. Hampton murdered an old
man, 60 years of age, named Lloyd, in the
Chickasaw nation, December 8. 1886, for
the purpose of securing q small sum OF
money.
Owens D. Hill, Jack Crow and George
Moss. all negroes, were executed April y,
1883. Hill for the murder of his wife near
Gibson Station, Cherokee nation, June %,
1887; Crow for participating in the murder
of Charles Wilson near kulla Chaha. Choc-
taw nation, August Z, 1884, and Moss for
the murder of a farmer named George Taft
in the Chickasaw nation, November %,
1856. Sandy Smith, Dick Butler and Fac
tor Jones were implicated with Moss in this
murder.
Gus Bogles, a young negro, was hung
July 6, 1888. for the murder Of Id. Morgan
MAY 10 of the same year, at Blue Tank,
Choctaw Nation. Morgan was drunk and
Gus buckled a strap around his neck and
choked him to death for the purpose of rob-
bling him:
Jan. %. 1889, for the murder of a white man
named Thomas Pringle. in Towson county,
Chootaw nation. March 25, 1883.
Malichi Allen and James Mills, both ne
groes. wore hung April 1s, 1889, Allen for
the murder of Shadrack Peters, July 10.
1888, while attending church in the Chicka-
saw nation, and Mills for the murder of an
other negro named Windham, in the Semi
mole nation. Dec. Is, 1887.
Jack Spaniard, a Cherokee Indian. n
William Walker, a negro, were hung on the
30th of August, 1sS9-Spaniard for the MUIR
dey of Deputy United States Marshal Will
lam Irwin, near Pheasant bluff. Choctaw
nation, April II, 1886. for the purpose of
rescuing Felix Griffin. a horse thief, who
was in the custody of Irwin.
Harris Austin. JOIN Bill, Thomas Willis,
Jefferson Jones, Sam Coin and Jlmmon
Burris, all full-blood Indians, went through
the death-trsp all in a bunch, January II,
1890. Austin murdered Thomas Elliott at
Tishomlngo, Chickasaw nation, May %,
1888, just to see him kick. He remained at
large until April, 1888. and was badly
wounded by the marshal who arrested him..
John Billy, Ihos. Willis and Madison
James murdered a whisky peddler, known
as Williams, in the Choctaw nation, April
u, 1888, for the purpose of robbery. James
was to hang at the same time, but owing to
some ,extenuating circumstances in his IA
vor, was commuted to fifteen years. impris-
onment. Jones murdered an old man
nance Henry Wilson. aged about G5 years, on
or about March Is. 1888, in the Choc-
taw nation for the purpose of robbery.
Coin and Burris murdered a young Texan
named Houston Joyce on the 9th of No
vember, 1883, for the purpose of robbing
him. This murder also occurred in the
Choctaw nation.
George Iobler, a negro, was hung JAM 80,
1890, for the murder of another negro
named Irwin Richardson, at g dance in the
Choctaw nation. April 80, 1890.
John stansberry, a Missourian, was hung
July 8, 1890, for the murder of his wife,
near Eufaula. Creek nation, Oct. ID, 1889.
He killed her in order that he might marry
an Indian girl, and thus get a right in the
territory.
All these men were brought here from the
Indian country, where they committed
their crimes. and, although tried and exc
cuted here, Fort Smith or the state of Ar
kansas had no more to do with them than
New York. There has been but one
execution under the state laws in this county
since the war. \