Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-06-12
FROM SCOUT TO RENEGADE.
Eyentful Career of Sergeant Kid, Now n
Fugitive from Justice.

Eventful Career of Sergeant Kid, Now n
Fugitive from Justice.
The Apaches' sixth article of the dec
alogue says: ''Thou shalt kill him who
has slain thy father, brother, cousin,
aunt, or any blood relation" and it was
religious obedience to the tribal law
that made the first sergeant of scouts
at San Carlos the Apache renegade,
Kid. That was in 1886, 1 believe. An
Indian had killed the grandfather.
uncle or some other relative of the first
sergeant of Al Seiber's company of
scouts, and the first sergeant asked
leave of absence in order that he might
STAY the miscreant in accordance with
the established and pious custom of his
people.
Now, Al Sieber was an excellent
scout, beloved by his men, but he comes
OF a race that kills blithely at COM
mand of the man who has more gilt
braid on his coat, and holds it wicked,
savage and altogether unlawful to kill
at command of ten centuries of ancest-
ors, backed up by whatever god or SUI
preme being those ancestors had the
ingenuity to invent. Wherefore Chief
of Scouts Al Sieber refused leave of abb
sence to the first sergeant and lectured
MIN concerning the enormity of his
purpose.
Tribal law and inherited beliefs were
superior to military discipline in infiu-
ence upon the mind of the first SER
gsant, and so he went away and killed
the bad Indian who had killed his re-
speeted grandfather. When he re-
turned San Carlos, the chief of scouts,
hn sv,4o
tent and placed him under arrest for
being absent without leave. The SER
geant handed his carbine and belt to
Sieber, who tossed them upon the cap
tain's cot, and stood before the white
| soldiers with his heart full of rage and
humiliation, for an Indian scout is
prouder of his uniform and his ser
geant's stripes than a Pullman porter
is of brass buttons and whisk- broom.
The sergeant's comrades were gath
ered outside the tent, and supposing
that some mysterious but disgraceful
punishment was to be put upon the
sergeant, were much excited. They
fired into the tent, and when Sieber
and Capt Pierce threw themselves
prone to escape the fusilade the ser
geant recovered his carbine, ran out of
the tent, leaped upon a horse behind a
comrade and fled. Sieber seized a rifle
and ran out, but was shot in the leg be-
fore he could fire.
The mutinous scouts and some other
Apaches fled towards Mexico, but were
pursued so closely that they doubled
on their tracks and returned to San
Carlos. They killed two white men
before they got back. Several were
arrested, and the non-military run
Always were given their liberty in
return for their testimony against the
scouts who had assisted in the two
murders Some of the scouts were
| hanged for the murders. When Kid
was caught he was sentenced by a
military court to imprisonment for
mutiny and desertion, but the civil
authorities of Arizona demanded him,
and he was delivered up for trial on a
! charge of murder. While being taken
with others under guard to Yuma, Kid
and the other prisoners managed to
free themselves, seized their weapons
killed the guards and escaped. Kid
has been hunted ever since, and in his
fitting along the border no doubt he
has followed the Apache fashion of
| committing homicides.-San Francisco
Examiner.