Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-15
THREE INDIANS HANGED BY NORTH
DAKOTA MOB.
HAD SLAIN AN ENTIRE FAMILY.
NOT A BREAK IN PROGRAMME OF
THE AVENGERS.
Forty Masked Men Tethered Horses
Near the Jail and at 2 O'clock in
Morning Demanded Gull
prits, Who Were Quick
ly Hanged.

Rismarck, y. D.. Nov. 1i-Alex Coudot.
1rdian halfbreed; Paul Holy Track ani
Philip Ireland fullblooded Indians. the hrs:
OF whom was sentenced TO death for The
murder of six members of tie Spicer iaII.-
fly last February, and had just been grant
ed a new trial 10y the supreme court. d.,d
the latter two self-confessed accessories la
the murder. were taken from the counts
Jail in Emmons county last night anc
lyEched by a mob. The lynching had been
apparently coolly planned and was carried
on. without a break in the programme.
Suecen and swift retribution was melted
out by the mob 10 the murderers. Will
ianspcrt. where the hanging took place, IS
about forty pliles from this city and vi.
the railroad. The news Of the hanging
was received here this afternoon, when 4
mounted messenger arrived, his horse IN Il
foam from a swift ride, and announced
thst the three men had been lynched. The
sheriff of the county, Peter Shier. was in
this city a. the time the hanging occurred
ard Il was TO him that the messenger rode.
in sIch hot haste. The men had been under
the custody of Deputy Sheriff Tom Kelley.
and they were taken from under his con-
troll by the mob and hanged to a beef
wirdiass several hundred yards from Ius.
Jail, where their bodies We're left swingins,
to the breeze during the entire day. the
cororer not having Yet arrived and no one
else volunteering 10 cut them down. There
wers about forty men concerned in the
lynching
They rode into Williamsport on horse
back late at night and tethered their
horses a short distance from the city that
they might secure them again as speedily
as necessary after the deed was done. The
jail in which the prisoners were confined
Is substantial brick structure and was
In charge Of Deputy Sheriff Thomas Kel-
ley. Since the confinement of the pris-
oners there so great has been the fear that
tney might escape in some way that one
man has watched all night within the jail,
and last night Kelley was on watch. There
was meeting of the lodge of Woodmen in
building near the Jail, and as Kelley was
q member he expected to meet some of
the members of the lodge, after the meet
time during the night hours, he was play
Ing solitaire in front of the cells in which
the murderers were confined. About 2
O'Clock In the morning there was a rap at
the outer door of the jail. and Kelley
arose quickly and turned the key in the
lock. thinking that the persons he expect
opened the door than the mob crowded in
10 the corridors. All of them were masked
and the leaders carried ropes purchased
for the occasion. Kelley at once realized
that the mob had come after his prisoners
The !ynchers were quiet but determined.
The leaders presented revolver at the
head OF the deputy sheriff and told him
they wanted his prisoners and demanded
that he open the cells in which they were
connned. Kelley demurred but saw that
resistance was useless and unlocked the
door. Two of the prisoners were confined
together and the other was 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 Holy Track and
Ireland were dragged from their beds ropes
were fastened about their necks and they
were dragged out on the grounds after be-
Ing told to prepare for death. The men
were then dragged to n huge beef wind
lass. which had been erected to suspend the
carcasses Of slaughtered beeves and
strung up on a cross beam. Coudot was
the first man to be hanged. 1t is reported
that he was asked before he was hanged
whether Black Hawk and Defender had al
so been concerned in the murder for which
he was about TO he hanged. He answered
that they had been The rope which had
been fastened about his neck was then
thrown over the cross beam and he was
raised OFF the ground and suspended in the
air Holy Track and Ireland were so near
ly unconscious from the effects of the drag
ging that they did not realize what was
about to happen. when the ropes about their
necks were tossed over the same beam
They were unable to stand and were slow
ly raised from the ground on which they Law
until their bodies swung in the air and
dangled from the windlasS with that of
Coudot The mob then dispersed, mountinl,
their horses and riding away