The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1897-11-20
GOnThDlkoIlC lIlzENs
LYNCH THREE INDIANS
Murdere Of the Spicer Family
Dragged From Their Beds
to Death.
The INDIANS HAD CONFESSED
Taken From jail by Forty Men and
Hanged OH q Reef Wimdlass
In tho Early Morn
Minneapolis. Nov. ia special to
the Tribune from Bismarck, n. d.,

Minneapolis. Nov. ia special to
the Tribune from Bismarck, n. d.,
says:
Alex Coudet, a half breed. and Paul
Holytrack and Philip Ireland, full
blood Indinns, the first of whom was
sentenced to death 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 latter two self confessed accessu-
lies to the murder were taken from
the county Jail in Emmons coun-
ty and lynched by n mob. The lynch
ing had apparently been coolly plan
ned and was carried out without a
break in the program.
Willinmsport, where the hanging
took place, is about forty miles from
this place and off the railroad. The
news of the hanging was received here
yesterday afternoon by mounted mes
senger. The men had been under the
custody of Deputy Sheriff Kelly and
they were taken. from his control by
the mob and hanged to g beef windlass
, several hundred yards from the Jail,
where their bodies were still swinging
to the breeze all during the day, the
coroner not having yet arrived, and mt
one else volunteering to cut them
down.
There We're about forty men con-
cerned in the lynching. They rode in
to Willialnsport on horseback late at
night and tethered their horses n short
which the prisoners were confined is Il
substantial stone structure and since
the confinement of the prisoners there
| IN 6 rro,< hoe hoar tha fanr that fbp,.
might escape in some way that one
man has watched all night within the
Jail, and this night Kelly was. on watch.
There was q meeting of the ledge of
Woodmen in a building near the Jail
and as Kelly was a member he expect
ed to meet some of the members of the
lodge after the meeting adadjourned.
At about 2 o'clock in the morning
there was n rap at the door of the Jail
and Kelly arose and quickly turned the
key in the lock, thinking that the per-
ons he had expected to meet had ar
rived. No sooner had he opened the
door than the mob crowded into the
corridors. All of them We're masked
and the leaders carried ropes pnr-
chased for the occasion. The leaders
presented r%evolvers at the hend of the
deputy sheriff and demanded that he
open the cells in which the prisoners
were confined. Kelly demurred, but
raw that resistance was useless, and
unlocked the cells. The prisoners had
been aroused from sleep by the en-
rance of the mob and sat up half
awake and trembling with terror.
Holytrack and Ireland We're dragged
rom their beds, ropes fastened about
heir necks and they were dragged out
IN the ground after being told to pre-
pare for death. Coudet was the first
nan to be hanged. 1t is reported that
1e 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 that they had been.
Holytrack and Ireland We're so near
~ unconscious from the effects of the
dragging that did not realize
what was about to happen when the
ropes about their necks were tossed
Ner the crossbeam. They were unable
to stand and were slowly raised from
the ground on which they lay until
their bodies swung into the air and
| aangled5from the windlass with that Of
Coudet.
The mob then dispersed, mounted
their horses and rode away.