The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-03-15

Here | repaired with two OF the men,
before darkness set In. TO keep guard.
and left the other two men AZ inc nea"
OF the portage. We took TINS neces
sary precau.ion, for we did not hho"
the whereabouts Of the Indian we
were in search Of; and II was qui'e
nos,ible that he might be on the move
during the night, either up or down
| the river.
The night passed without seeing or
hearing anything To cause rs anxiety
and at the first streak OF dawn we ate
a hasty breakfast and proceeded 10
drop quietly down stream, always
lkeepinr in the shadow OF the branches
as much as possible and never round
ing "A point before scanning careiuiiy
the stretch OF river ahead OF us. Con
siderable fog hung about the edges Oh
the water and helped materially 10
conceal our movements
At one OF the points the man IN inc
how went ashore 10 peer ahead ne
hastily returned with the INFORMANT
that the party we were III searcn -
was nj that moment not quarter OF
mile from us on the same side Oh Tue
river. making his morning lire.
This was pleasing news, Tor ~ IL
much more satisfactory TO hunt LOT
nerson Won see than for person you
do not see.
We had now only to go ashore pun
the canoe up on the beach. lie down Oh
IN, point. watch his movements an'
devise way TO capture him.
The handouts and leg chains wer'
oiled and worked several times 10 III
sure rapidity in swapping them on.
at She-ma-pan continued to crouch owe
, n The new-inadc fire. evidently warinih
In himself before going to his fish ne
as rh;s ,ve Judged was his intention.
all we saw no pot on the lire Tor MS prea'
led fast.
From our position we could commai
the his every movement; ana WIN ~
nad pairs of eyes watching, nothing
e n capped Us. =.
18th one thing in our favor was. ne ~
the evidently made away with MS dogs
ned they would have scented Us ere no
st. As the light wind that was graauai
,out clearing away the fog came from do'
that he river and directly from our pia
,nlv Of concealment to his camp
and Possibly part of his insanity was u
chill he imarined the dogs were human
;ncs and had killed and eaten them.
and Ouite suddenly. as if the thought
al that very moment just entered
~ an brain he got Up. went down To
man bcaeh. turned over his canoe. pushe
~ III. INTO he water. got in and padc
lnces down stream.
was %othinr could have happened II
:. OPPORTUNITY for us'than this iiio''
mo- n ms part. for he had not taken MS
20 is ar even an az. We saw him enter
,drcd canoe with absolutely nothing put
latter paddle. ),
N ex- Two things we were sure OF y
,,t,-. l.,,-;r.r tn. way he did: First. tina
!, less had gone to visit his net for sonnet
!, hr.alfast on and second tn
d;,ns ,vas no. far away. And it behoov'
a no, TO be up and doing.
III he i. once detailed one man I
.harrc main al the canoe and await the
. four to paddle down 70 Us; WITH inc .
where Of the party | hurried through
~. and hush to She-lna-Ean 8 camp.
the distance from the water
AZ had 81 ~. brow Of the river bank
guide. which the camp was pi'chc" "as
iced To thirty yards and on the uppei
read of the beaten path over WNlch ~
to and fro TO tie beach was = GU
locali- stuntcd trees and WILLOWS =
st seen about halfway over the SANDS
ed in spring landslide.
nm. Here | placed two OF my men
lace in instructions to move only after
cult. as passed their ambush and was
zen the Min, az clambering the crest
!. and IL LII. ~ that moment he would b.
, stream in arms length of US above.
!. on the II appeared to me that we M
boy had been very few minutes IN :
ment when our mar move III
TO be an around the point below us, an
ion Of a paddling up to his landing-Pia
, plenty aware Of the presence OF those
US to APP to receive him.
not to NJ man and l were lying
party un- each side Of the path' on .oi
hill we'll hidden in the WHO
sini were blueberry shrubs. we aiio"'
as it was ma gran TO he almost over us
post. we snrang up. He made motion
ing even and Ace. hut the men from
slide cache were already behi
II jerked To secure him between " :,
With cold work of moment. Poor ieii
tea. as 1t looked ut us with such mop
n not to preston when the handcuns
Ike might iusted; but he made no eifor'
the river single pistol-shot was
bring down the canoe, and we
= sense Of our man to the camp. where
known an placed on log. with man
Ike at 1--WE side to guard him.
! occasion On looking about. evidence
wanting to confirm the story
balism. for we saw the skull,
his victims hung up on po
X same way the Indians do th'
IN hear; the larger bones OF
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