The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-11-19
BAD INDIANS OF ONEIDA,
Record OF Old Abe Antoine in the
Early Days OF New York..
From the Utica Observer.

49, 49, 80
They hanged old Antoine, and I'll
give EN- a chance to hang me some
day." yelled Alexander Antoine as Officer
Wilcox of Oneida dragged him into the
police station the other day. II murder
you before long. do you hear?" he
shrieked again and again as the officer
cxasperatingly paid no attention to his
rawlings, but calmly dragged the red
man to a cell. AS the heavy iron door
closed with a crash he broke out again
like a-maniac. shrieking b~lood-curdling
threats and curses.
Alexander Antoine, says the Oneida
Union, boasts that he is the grandson
of Abram Antoine, n of the f%iercest
SaVaSeS ever known in this vicinity.
Abram was born on the banks of the
S~usquehanna in 1850. His father was a
StOckbridSe Indian and his mother was
the daughter of an Oneida chief. When
n reviews the life and bloOdthirsty
deeds OF the offspring of this pair, one
cannot wonder at the savage instincts
which show in the blood of his Ogen
In 1898 Abram had some trouble with an
ndian who distributed government al
loWances to the Indians. He claimed
he had been d~efrauded. He met the
agent at ChenangO Point, at the rails
ing or an Indian house, and at the feast,
after the work had been done, dcliber-
ately shot the man through the heart
and calmly walked away. Nothing was
done toward bringing him to justice. His
most atrocious deed was the murder of
an infant child. He came home one day
and found the baby crying. He was in
an ugly mood and seized the child from
ITS mothers arms. raked back the bed
of Goals. and buried the infant in the
flames OF the fireplace. During his ca
reer he lived in Canada for some years.
A white man insulted a squaw there
and Abram resented it. He was struck
across the face by the white man. His
blood boiled, and from that he followed
his enemy until he had an opportunity
to plunge a knife into his heart in a
hotel bedroom. In or about 1910,
daughter, Mary, received at
tentlons from a young Indian in his
county. He transferred his favors soon,
however, to another dusky damsel and
married her. Mary killed her rival, for
which she was arrested, tried. convict
eel and hanged. One JOIN Jacobs, a
halt-breed, had been a witness against
her. and Abram considered him the
cause OF her death. He sWOre to kill
MIN, n Jacobs fled, and returned only
when Abram SEM him word that he
would not modest him. He was hoeing
corn IN a field with others one day when
Abram approached, shaking hands with
each. AS he approached Jacobs he said,
dye do, b~rother?" and drawing a
Knife from his left sleeve, plunged it
three times into the mans body. Abram
away and then began a life of
many narrow sea from officers of the
He had a wigwam in what is
now the town of Sherburne, and there
two whites found him one day, peace
fully making a broom. He waited. as
they advanced to capture him. until
were close at hand, and then point
ed his rifle suddenly and ordered them
They went. Inc later Abram
used to laugh as he old the story and
emphatically boosted that his gun was
empty. He grew holder as time went
on and used openly to enter villages and
towns with apparently no fear Of being
taken. At last one in whom he had con-
tidence betrayed him. He was induced
enter a trial of skill at shooting, and
When his rifle was empty officers seized
ana captured him.. He was hanged in
pupllc at MOrrisville on Friday, Septcm-
Der II, 1928.