The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-30
SITTING BULLS DEATH.
The Old Indian Full of Cunning UI
to the Time of His Demise.

Omitting the peculiar train of eireum-
stances which led UP to the necessity
of making a prisoner of Sitting Bull
the incidents that surround the history
of his tragic death can be briefly re-
told here He had two log cabins at
Grand river, large and q small one
one upon either side of q, wagon road
that passed between them.
Ere the sun had risen on the day
which was to be the last in the career
of this remarkable Indian, he was
laSIeep in the larger of the two, when
there boldly appeared between them.
well mounted and armed. forty-three
for the most part, of the special Sioux
Indian police force from the agency,
acting under orders of the agent, TO
make the arrest. One of them" Bull
head''-was a first lieutenant, three
Others -Shavehead.' Red Toma-
hawk and Little Eagle'--were f G
second and fourth Sergeants One
hundred and fifty warriors and women,
more or less crazed with the ghost
dance" idea, made up at the time the
sleeping camp of Sitting Bull
! Ten eager men entered one cabin and
eight the other; impatiently the re-
mainder held the horses in the road
| the party in the large house. He said;
"AlI right, | will go with you; Will
put on my Clothes" and was permitted
| TO dispatch his wife across the way 10
fetch those he desired TO wear He
was also allowed to direct one Of the
police to repair TO his corral and bring
him his favorite pony saddled
company his caDtors to the agency
BY all these preliminaries the
willy old Indian meant only to gain
time, and he succeeded in his object
Before he had completed dressing
himself, he commenced roundly abus-
ing the police for disturbing him, and
this he continued as they took him
without his cabin Finding there that
his followers were congregated in num-
bers, he became still more excited.
Coward that he was this gave him
courage and believing the tables to be
turned he first refused to go and then
called upon his warriors to rescue him
These latter the brave police kept press
ling back as well as they could and en-
deavored by reasoning with them to be
allowed to take away their prisoner
without molestation. AS the excitement
came to its highest pitch, Lieutenant
lBullhead and Sergeant Shavehead
stood one upon either side of Sitting
Bull, with Red TouahaWk in his i'm
mediate rear to prevent his escape II
that direction Meanwhile Crowfoot
Sitting Bulls son. kept haunting his
father for allowing himself to be taker
by a handful of men in the midst Of
his own camp and outnumbering the
enemy three to one. This was more
than Strike-the-Kettle and Catch-the-
Bear, two of the old chiefs most ar
ldent adherents, could withstand with
out striking a blow to free him They
forced their way through the excited
crowd and Catch-the-B Bear fired an6
shot Lieutenant Bullhead in the rtgh
side, but before the latter fell to the
ground he too fired, and shot Sitting
I Bull in the left side. and the latter. il
failing. received a second shot in TIT
fright cheek. Sergeant Shavehead wal
Ishot and mortally wounded by Strike
Ithe-Kettle A private of the police
"Alone Man" then shot and killed
Catch-the-Bear whereupon the hgh
became general-hand to hand at clos
quarters. But by a display of indom
table courage and superiority of dis
cipline, the police soon prevailed, anC
lcharged their $50 savage antagonist!
into piece of woods near at hand
Returning, they gathered the dead ant
wounded into one of Sitting Bull;
lcabins. which they held until a body
Iof troops arrived from Fort Yates
where the agency was. a few hour;
Elater.-Great Divide