The National tribune., 1895-07-25

troit TO Kentucky, numbering and torturing to
his hearts content. For time his headqusr-
ters was at Ssndusky, where the Wyandotte
chief Zhaus-sho-tok Half King) was soon COM
petely under his control. lie ranged in every
direction, and it viii never be known how
many fell under his tomahawk or gave up
their lives at the stake under his direction.
Disguised usually as an Indian, many hardy
frontiersman was killed who little knew that
man of his own color had plotted his death.
The most noted cases recorded in the pages of
the early history of Ohio were his attack on
Bryant's Station, now Lexington, KY, the
massacre of the Moravian missionaries near
Coshocton. O., the attack and killing of part
of the forces of Capt. Clark. and the cruel death
inflicted on Col. Crawford and nine of his men
who were captured in the expedition against
Sandusky.
Col Crawford was stripped of all his clothes
and then beaten with sticks and the fists of the
Indians. lie was then tied TO a stake 10y rope
attached to his wrists so that he could walk a
few PAGES around the post. Crawford implored
Girty by the remembrance of former kindnesses
not to kill him, but the renegade only laughed
in the old warriors face. The Indians then ap-
preached ANA discharged guns point-blank at
Crawford. The guns were not loaded with ball.
and the shooting was done TO blow the powder
into the skin, at the same time tearing and
burning il. DIR. knight,who escaped, said that
at least ~ guns were dlsCnargcQ ab l1AWlOru.
fire had been kindled meantime and long
sticks placed across it. When they had burned
through ut the middle they were caught up and
the burning ends applied 10 Crawford's body.
He then begged Girty TO shoot him aud put him
out of his misery. Girty approached him and
fired squarely into his face, but the death that
was longed for was not in the gun: for it, like
the others, contained no ball. This Girty
thought was a capital joke, and turning TO Dr.
RuiC lad bnv La 10 4
treatment, swearing that it should come the
following day.
The squaws then got slabs of wood and car
ried them TO the place where the Colonel had
sunk down in his agony, and heaped the Goals
from the fire upon him. He arose and began
pacing the narrow limits allowed him by the
rope but the squaws placed the Goals on the
ground, and he soon fell again. He was again
hesped with burning brands. and in short
time expired in agony. This act occurred in
June, l7S2, and when the news was spread abont
it is said Washington himself wept at the death
of the brave Colonel.
Girty then withdrew TO the retreat he had
provided on the Maumee, and for time gave
himself up to maraudiug the settlements in the
valley. He next took an active nart in the war
between the Government and the Indians of
the Northwest Territory in 1890. in 1871 he
was in the forces that opposed the Americans
at Dunlops Station, near Cincinnati lie was
also at the defeat of ST. Clar's forces in north
ern Ohio.
He was at Girty's town when Gen. Anthony
Wayne started on hisexpeiiiion into the North
west in 1894 which ended gloriously in the
battle of Fallen Timbers on the Maumee, be-
low Defiance, where he almost exterminated
the 1000 Indians under the command of Little
Turtle, the Missessago chief Girty Elliott and
Mckee all hovered around this battlefield, but
at a safe distance.
turned again TO his island retreat on the
Maumee, where il is believed he died. shortly
after the attack his rendezvous by the
settlers in 1916. II is questioned whether any
country ever produced so brutal. depravcd and
wicked a man as Simon Grty the Renegade.