Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1897-11-18

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Bismarck, N. D., Nov. 15.-Alex
Coudot, Indian half breed, Paul Holy
tract and Philip Ire1ahd d, - full Bloc ed:
Indians, tie first Of u ON wa sen fenced
to death for the murder of six members
of the Spicer MISUNDERSTANDING, and
has just been granted new trial by the
supreme court. and the latter two self
confessed accessories ID the murder,
were taken from the county Jail in EN-
mons county, Saturday =, night and
lynched BY mob. The lynching had
been apparently coolly planned and was
carried out without break in the pro-
gramme and sudden and swift retribu-
tion Wasmsted out by, the; mobeto thes
murdercrs:s NNillianasport, =wtlere ths,
hanging took place, is about 40 miles
from this city and off the railroad.
The men had been under the custody
Of Deputy Sheriff Tom Kelly and they
were taken from under his control by
the mob, and hanged to q beef windlass
several hundred yards: from the Jail,
where their bodies were still swim ging
to the breeze all during Sunday, the
coroner not having yet arrived and no
one else volunteering to cut them down.
There were about 40 men concerned in
the lyncling.@ They rode into Will
$liamsport on;hoseback late at nightand5
tethered their horses5a 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 stone structure and was in
charge of. Deputy Sheriff Thomas Kel-
ley, Since the confinement of the pris-
oners therein 50 great has been the fear
that; they. might escape EinF some way
that one man has watched all night
within the Jail, and Friday night Kel-
ley was on watch. -, -
At about two O'Clock in the morn ING ing
there was a.rap at the outer.door ii the
jail and Kelley arose quickly land
turned the key in the lock, thinking
that some persons he expected to meet
had arrived: } No sooner!hatl he opened
the door than the mob crowded into the
Corridors; 'AHs- Of them were masked
and the leaders carried ropes purchased
for the occasion. Kelley at once real
lied that. the. mob had come after his
prisoners. The@lynchers 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 which they were confined in.
Kelley Edemurred but Saw that resist
ance was useless and unlocked ! the
cells. = - + ~s}>~~> '.~t1 T
Two of the prisoners were confined in
one cell 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.
.Holytracks and Ireland were dragged
from their beds, ropes were fastened
about their necks and they were
dragged out on the grounds after being
told to prepare for death. The men
were then dragged to o huge beef wind
lass which had }beens erected to sus-
pend the. carcasses of slaughtered
beeves and strung up on q cross beam.
Coudot was. the first, man TO be
hanged. It is reported that he was
asked before he; was hanged whether
Black Hawk and Defender had also
been concerned in the murder for which
he was about to- be hanged, He. an
,swered 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. Holytrack and
Ireland swere7sos 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 same beam.
They were unable to stand and were
slowly raised from the ground on which
they lay until their bodies swung into
the air and dangled from the windlass
with that of Coudot. The mob then
dispersed,< mounted their horses and
rode away. ~: I'll i = ;:s,s
1.-THE crime for which the men were thus
executed by the mob was the murder of:six
,membersSof the Spfcer family nearWfrlona.
last winter: The bodies of Thomas: Spicer
his wtfes &daught Mrs:t, Rouse and. her
twin ci,ildren and ofz MRS. Ell len vyaldron,
his mot her-in=law, were found 1t tie Spicer
honne. all ..horribly mutilated& Paul Holy
track. and Phillip ireland, two =of 'the.nen;l
who! lynchedsH ha q sa ady: confesssd|
having assiStedsin Che murde rs.s Theirnar-
tiyessSas. Sc sreN6l ting as TO arouse dndig=
nation to Ever he4f & The confession of the
two impli Heated: CpAdot,. the third OF thevic
Tins last night and two other Indians,
Black sHaWk and George Defender, who
areSat present sconhned, in the JAN in this
city. to which fact Is due their escape from
the fate Of their comrades. The Indians