The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-15
REDSKINS DIE IN THE ROPE.
LYNCHERS STRING UP A TRIO FOR
A sEXTUPLE MURDER.

One of the Indians COnfesses That
Two Others BESIDES Those Lynch
ed Were Implicated in the Murder.
The Avengers Enter the Jail at
Midnight and Compel the JaiIer to
Deliver the Keys-The Indians
Dragged From Their Cells with
Ropes Around Their NecISs.
Bismarck, N. D., Nov. 14,-Alexander
Coudot. an Indian halflbreed; Paul Holy
track and Philip Ireland, fun blooded In
dians, the first of whom was sentenced to
death for the murder of six members of
the Spcer family last Friday, and had
just been granted a new trial by the su-
preme court, and the latter two self-con-
fessed accessories in the murder, were
taken from the county jail in Emmons
county last night and lynched The lynch
ing had been apparently coolly planned.
and was carried out without a break in
the programme. Williamsport, where the
hanging took place, is about forty miles
from this city, and off the railroad. The
news of the hanging was received here this
afternoon, when a mounted messenger ar
rived and announced that three men had
been lynched. The sheriff of the county,
Peter Shler, was in this city at the time
the hanging occurred The men
had been in charge of Deputy
Sheriff Tom Gallagher and they We're
taken from the control and hanged to a
beef windlass, several yards from the jail,
where their bodies were left swinging to
the breeze during the day.
There were about forty men concerned
in the lynchlng. They rode into Williams
port on horseback late at night and teth-
cred their horses a short distance from
the city that they might secure them
again after the deed was done. The jail
in which the prisoners were confined is a
substantial stone structure and was in
charge of Deputy Sheriff Kelly. Since
the confinement of the prisoners therein
so great has been the fear that they might
escape in some way that one man has
watched all night within the jail and last
night Kelly was on guard. There was
meeting of the Lodge of Woodmen In
building near the jail, and as Kelly was
a member he expected to meet some of
bly, had adjourned. To while away the
time he was pacing up and down in front
of the cells where the murderers were con-
fined.
About o'clock in the morning there was
rap on the door of the jail Kelly arose
quickly and turned the key in the lock,
thinking that the persons he expected to
meet had arrived.
No sooner had he opened the doors than
the mob crowded into the corridors All
of them were masked and the leaders car
ried ropes purchased for the occasion. The
lynchers were quiet, but determined. The
leaders presented a revolver at the head of
the deputy sheriff and told him they want
ed his prisoners and demanded that he
open the cells in which they were com
fined. Kelly demurred, but saw that re-
sistance was useless and unlocked the
cells.
Two of the prisoners were locked up to-
gether and the other in a separate cell.
They had been aroused from sleep by the
entrance of the men and sat up half awake
and trembling with terror. Holytrack and
Ireland were dragged from their beds,
ropes were fastened about their necks and
they were pulled out on the ground and
told to prepare for death. The men were
then taken to a huge beef windlass which
had been erected to suspend the carcasses
of slaughtered beeyes and strung up on
cross beam. Coudot was the first man to
be hanged 1t is reported that he was
asked before he was hanged whether
Blackhawk and Defender had also been
concerned in the murder for which he was
about to die. He answered that they had
been. Holytrack and Ireland was so
nearly unconscious from the effects of the
dragging that they did not realize what
was about to happen when the ropes about
their necks were tossed over the beam.
They were unable to stand and were slow
ly raised from the ground on which they
lay until their bodies swung in the air and
dangled from the wlndlass with that of
COudot. The mob then disappeared.