Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1897-11-17
TWO OAcCOMPLICES IN LUCK
p,,ck Hawk and Defender, in
Jail at Bismarck, Escape
a Like Fate.
Granting of a New Trial Said to
Have Brought Matters to
Climax.

BISMARCK. Nov. 15.-Alec Coudot,
Indian halfbreed; Paul Holy Track and
Philip Ireland, full blooded Indians;
the first of whom was sentenced to
ioath for the murder of six members Of
the Spicer family last February and
had Just been granted a new trial
by the supreme court, and the lat
fer two self-confessed accessories
in the murder. were taken from the
county Jail in Emmons county during
the night and lynched by mob. The
ynching had been apparently coolly
planned, and was carried out without
break in the programme, and sudden
and swift retribution was meted out by
the mob to the murderers.
Lynching Occurred at Williamsport.
williamsport, where the hanging
took place, is about 40 miles from this
city and off the railroad. The men
we're under the custody Of Deputy
Sheriff Tom Kelly and they were taken
from him by the mob and hanged to a
beef windlass several hundred yards
from the Jail, where their bodies Were
swinging to the breeze during the day,
thecoroner not having arrived yet, and
no one volunteering to cut them down.
There were about 40 men concerned in
the lynching. They rode into Will
amsport on horseback late at night
and picketed their horses outside the
city, that they might secure them again
.speedily as necessary after the deed
was done.
The Visit to the Jail.
Deputy Sheriff Kelly had been ex.
pecting visitors, and at o'clock when
there was rap at the outer door Of the
jail he arose quickly and turned the
sey in the lock, thinking that the per-
sons he expected to meet had arrived.
No sooner had he opened the door than
inc members of the mob crowded into
the small Jail corridor. All of them
were masked and the leaders carried
ropes, purchased new for the occasion.
Inc lynchers were quiet but deter
mnad. The leader presented revol.
yer at the head of the deputy sheriff
and told him they wanted his prisoners,
ana demanded that he open the cells in
winch hey Were confined. Kelly saw
taat
Resistance Was Useless
anu unlocked the cells. Two of the
prisoners were confined in one cell,
suu lne other in separate cell. They
aau oeen aroused from sleep by the en-
rance OF the men, and sat up half
wake and trembling with terror. Holy
- aiack and Ireland were pulled from
~ .u0.r oeds, ropes were fastened about
msir necks and they were dragged out
" 'ne jail building, after being told to
prepare for death. The mob had more
..anslaeration WI for Coudot, since the
"aer TWO had confessed their crime,
u' ooudot had not, and the mob de.
, sssd to learn from him whether the
"0 others are guilty who are
Under Arrest for the Crime.
~. ue sel.confessed murderers were
hass across the space intervening
~ os'"een the Jail and the windlass, up
which they were hanged without
tb.n tbiony, reaching that spot more dead
NIL alve. Coudot was allowed to
il A de made a slight resistance, but
ma, was futile. Coudot was the first
h. an 70 be hanged. 1t is reported that
who,s was asked before he was hanged
bas b9'ner Black Hawk and Defender
for ,aa a,so been concerned in the murder
and nich he was about to be hanged,
RON. answered that they had been. The
h;s hs'' winch had been fastened about
4s neck, was then
Thrown Over the Cro.sbeam
,n.. u ne wss raised off the ground and
hnss hseaaed In air. Holy Track and Ire
-0 were 20 nearly unconsQious from