The Dickinson press., 1897-05-22
Thinks He Has All the Facts.

fession secured from Holy Track i'm.
plicates five men in the crime-the
four who have already been mention.
ed in connection with it and the In
dian Defender, who was the last to
be arrested. Holy Track states that
Defender is a relative of his, and
that he wished to save him. hoping
that when he tried to exonerate
Black Hawk and Coudot they in re-
turn would exonerate Defender. But
Wells unearthed too much to allow
the boys to stick to their story and
Holy Track finally admitted that it
was no use to keep any of the facts
from him and gave the complete de-
tails of the affair. His confession as
given by the Cannon Ball correspond
ent of the Mandan Pioneer is as fol.
lows:
son the Goth of last December
Black Hawk, Coudot, Defender and I
stole and killed two cattle. We trad
ed quarter of each to Caldwell for
whisky and the rest we sold to farm
ers. We stole altogether nine head
of cattle and always traded some for
whisky to Caldwell, and the rest we
sold. Finally we could get no more
cattle, they were too poor, and Black
Hawk suggested that we kill some
white people and get money. We
planned to kill a family below Vino.
ma, but there were too many men
there and we were afraid. Black
Hawk said, Il know a man with lots
of money near home and they are all
women there but one old man, we
will kill them Tuesday Tuesday
was very stormy and Black Hawk
said we will put this off till next
Monday. But Black Hawk had not
been dividing the cattle money fairly
and I said to the others when he had
gone, lets fool him and kill them our
selves and get the money. They
agreed and said, think I can get
Philip Ireland to help us instead,
which did. On Wednesday we killed
them all. first shot Mr.. Spicer, and
Philip pounded him with a shovel,
and then Defender stabbed him as he
fell with a pitchfork. then went
and shot Mrs. Spicer and stabbed her
with pitchfork, and Defender hit
her with an axe. Coudot attacked
Mrs. Rouse. but she hit him wit b
something and knocked him
senseless then she went into another
room and got a hoe to defend herself
with. I went to kill her then with
the butt end of the gun, but she was
quick and hit me with the hoe, again
1 went at her but maybe she would
have killed me with the hoe, if it had
not caught in the stove pipe wire.
1 knocked her onto lounge and she
laid there as 1 thought dead, but Cou-
dot who had come to said she is moi
dead yet, so I finished her with an
axe. Defender meantime killed the
two babies. Philip killed old Mrs.
Waldron with a club as she rocked in
her chair. We got altogether about
$5 in money besides the clothes and
jewelry. There was no outraging oi
women, the doctor was wrong about
that" 9
The officials are satisfied now that
they have the story Of the murner as
it happened. It was believed al
along that the four Indians were i'm
plicated, and the man defender hal
been under suspicion.
In conclusion the Bismarck Trib
une says: "The jury Of 48 person.
called by Judge Winchester for tn
Emmons county term Of court il
June has been drawn, and it is likely
that twelve of their numb or will b.
summoned to try the case of the Spi
Ger murderers-or at least part o
them. AS there are five persons VIII
will be tried. and no doubt part o
them will demand separate trials.
will try the population of Emmon
county to furnish jurors who will b
acceptable to both sides. Under tn
law, executions of criminal case
must occur in the county where tn
criminals are sentenced, and if al
five of the murderers are tried in EN-
mons county, there is likely to be
large batch of hangings in that ordi
narily peaceful neighborhood.
The five above named had a hear
ing on the 18th and are held without
bail, for trial in June.