, 1897-11-15
A DAKOTA LYNCH|NG.
COURT DELAYS CAUSE THE PEG
PIE TO GROW WEARY
OF WAITING.
About Forty Determined Men Take the
Law in Their Own Hands and Save
Further Expense and Trouble to
the Dilly-Dallying Peace Officers of
North Dakota.

Bismarck, n. D., Nov. 14.-Alex Cou,
dot, an Indian half breed, and Pau
Holy Track and Philip Ireland, full,
blooded Indians, the first of whom was
sentenced to death for the murder OF
six members of the Spicer family last
February, and has just been granted a
new trial by the supreme court. and
the latter W self-conIessed accessories
in the murder. were taken from the
county Jail in Emmons county last
night and lynched by a mob. The
lynching had apparently been coolly
planned and was carried out withou,
a break.
Williamsport, where the hanging
took place. is about forty miles from
this city, and off the railroad. The
news of the lynching was received here
this afternoon.
The men had been under the custody
of Deputy Sheriff Tom Kelley. They
were taken from him by the mob and
hanged to a beef windlass several hun
dred yards from the Jail. The bodies
were left hanging during the entire
day, as the coroner had not arrived
and no one else volunteered to cut
them down.
About forty men were concerned in
the lynching. They rod into Will
Transport late at night and tethered
their horses a short distance from the
city, in order that they might secure
them again as speedily as necessary
after the deed was done.
The Jail is a substantial stone struc-
ture and was in charge of Deputy Sher-
if Thomas Kelley. Since the confine-
ment OF the prisoners there, so great
has been the fear that they might es-
cape in some way, that one man has
watched the prisoners all night. Last
a meeting Of the lodge of Woodmen in
a building the Jail. and as Kelley
was a membeg he expected to meet
some of the members after the meeting
had adjourned. To while away the
time during the night hours he was
playing n game of 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
tho Ea\- in tho lnnk thinGinU thaf tho
persons he expected to meet had ar
rived. No sooner had he opened the
door than the mob crowded into the
corridors. All of them were masked.
and the leaders carried ropes. Kelley
at once realized that the mob had come
after his prisoners.
The lynchers were quiet but deter
mined. The leader presented a revolt
yer at the head of the deputy sheriff
and told him they wanted his prison,
ers and demanded that he open their
cells. Kelley demurred but saw that
resistance was useless and opened the
door. Two of the prisoners were con-
fined together and the other in a sep
arate cell. They had been aroused
from sleep by the entrance of the
would-be lynchers and sat up half
awake and trembling with terror.
Holy Track and Ireland were pulled
from their beds, ropes were fastened
about their necks, and they were drag
ged out on the grounds, after being told
to prepare for death.
The men were then dragged to a huge
windlass, 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 also been concerned
in the murder for which he was about
to be hanged. He answered in the af-
f1rmative. The rope which had been
fastened about his neck was then
thrown ove a cross beam and he was
suspended in mid-air. Holy Track and
Ireland were s. nearly unconscious
80 N">>'' VI IA NiaSSihS that
they did not realize what was about
to happen when the ropes about their
necks were tossed owe the same beam.
They were unable to stand. and were
slowly raised from the ground, on
which they lay. until their bodies
swung in the air and dangled from the
windlass with that Of Coudot. The mob
then dispersed, mounting their horses
and riding away
Here. come away from there,'said
Perry Patettic, as Wayworn Watson
started to enter the bar-room; they're
on to me there. Last time l started in
the b%arkeeper throwed half a glass Of
dead beer right in me face as o as
l stuck me head in the DOOR "Di-did
you have time to get your face open?"
asked Wayworn. stammering in his ex-
! rttemant