Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-11-18
rHE CRIME AVENGED.
,,..rers Of the spicer Family Strung
Up by MOD.


Bismarck N. D., Nov. 16.-Ale1
coudol an indian half-breed, and faul
IoIvtrack and Philip Ireland, 1uli-
Mood Indians, the first OF whom was
sentenced to death for the muruer Vi
civ members of the Spicer family las.
February, and had just been gIan'eu
a new trial by the supreme court anu
the latter two self-confessed Accessories
in the murder, were taken iro" I'll
county Jail in Wood county last h'eh'
and lynched by mob. ,.
The lynching had apparently oeen
ooo,v MANNED, and was carried OUT
without break. Sudden ana SWIM
retribution was meted out. Wiliians-
mort where the hanging took place, Is
about 40 miles from this city, and on
the railroad. The news OF the ivhch-
inc was received here this afternoon.
The men had been in the custody OF
Deputy Sheriff Kelly. They were
taken from him by the mob and haneeo
TO a beef windlass several yards from
the mil. Their bodies were lett hang
inc during the entire day, the coroner
not having arrived, and no one else
volunteering to cut them down.
About 40 men were concerned IN the
lvpching. They rode into Williams.
mort on horseback late at night, ana
tpthered their horses short distance
from the city, that they might secure
them again as speedily as necessary
after the deed was done. The jail Is
substantial stone structure, and was IN
charge of Deputy Sheriff Thomas Kelly.
Since the confinement OF the prisoners
there, so great has been the fear that
they might escape in some way, that
one man had watched the prisoners all
night. Last night Kelly was on watch.
There was meeting of the lodge OF
Woodmen in building near the jail,
and as Kelly was member, he expect
ed to meet some Of the members OF the
lodge after the meeting had adjourned.
To while away the time during the
night hours, he was playing solitaire
in front of the cells in which the muir
derers were confined. About O'Clock
there was a rap on the outer door OF
the Jail, and Kelly rose quickly and
turned the key in the lock, thinking
that the persons he expected to meet
had arrived.
No sooner had he opened the door
than the mob crowded into the CORR
doris. All of them were masked. and
the leaders carried ropes. Kelly at
once realized what the mob had come
for. The lynchers were quiet but de-
termined. The leader presented re-
volver at the head of the deputy sheriff
and told him they wanted his prisoners.
and demanded that he open their cells.
Kelly demurred. but saw that resist
ance was useless, and unlocked the
door. Two Of the prisoners were con-
fined together, and the other in seper-
ate cell. They had been aroused from
sleep by the entrance of the mob. and
sat up, half awake and trembling in
terror. Holytrack and Ireland were
pulled from their beds, ropes were fast
ened about their necks, and they were
dragged out on the ground, after being
told to prepare for death.
The men were then dragged to huge
beef windlass, which had been erected
to suspend carcasses of slaughtered
beeves, and were strung up on a cross.
beam. Cudol was the first man to be
hanged. 1t is reported that he was
asked before he was hanged whether
Blackhawk and Defender had also been
concerned in the murder for which he
was about to be hanged. He answered
in the affirmative. The rope, which
had been fastened about his neck, was
then thrown over crossbeam, and he
was suspended in midair. Holytrack
and Ireland were treated in like man
uer and the mob then quietly dispersed.