The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-11-15


MINNEAPOLIS, MINI. Nov. l4-A
special to the Tribune from Bismarck.
N. D.. says; Alex Coudot. Indian half
breed, Paul Holy Track and Philip Ire
land, full-blooded Indians, the first of
whom was sentenced to death for the
murder of six members OF the splcer
family last February, and had Just been
granted a new trial by the supreme
court, and the latter two self-confessed
accessories in the murder were taken
from the county jail in Emmons county
last night, and lynohed by mob.
The lynching had been apparently
coolly planned and was carried out
without break In the programme.
Sudden and swift retribution was met
ed out by the mob to the murderers,
Williamsport. where the hanging took
| place, In about forty miles from this
city and off the railroad. The news of
the hanging was received here this af-
ternoon, when a mounted messenger
arrived. his horse In a foam from a
swift ride, and announced that the
three men had been lynched. The sher-
III OF the county, Peter shier, was in
this city at the time the hanging occur
red and 1t was to him that the messen-
ger rode In such hot haste.
The men had been under the custody
OF Deputy Sheriff Tom Kelley and they
were taken from under his control by
the mob and hanged to a beef windlass
several hundred yards from the jail
where the bodies were still swinging TO
the breeze during the entire day. the
coroner not having yet arrived and no
one else volunteering to cut them
down.
There were about forty men concern
ed In the lynching. They rode into Will
Transport on horseback late at night and
tethered their horses short distance
from the city that they might secure
| them again as speedily as necessary af-
ter the deed was done. The jail In
which the prisoners were confined 10 a
substantial building and was in charge
of Deputy Sheriff Thomas Kelley. Since
the confinement OF the prisoners there
In so great has been the fear that they
might escape In some way that one
man has watched all night within the
Jail and last night Kelley was on watch
There was meeting OF the lodge Of
Woodmen In building near the jail,
and as Kelley was q member he ex-
pected to meet some Of the members of
the lodge after the meeting had ad-
journed To while away the time dur
ing the night hours he was playing
solitaire In front OF the cells in which
the murderers were confined. About .
o'clock in the morning there was a rap
at the door of the Jail and Kelley
arose quickly and turned the key In the
lock. thinking that the persons he ex-
pected to meet had arrived No sooner
had he opened the door than the mob
crowded into the corridors. All Of them
were masked and the leaders carried
ropes for the occasion. Kelley at once
! realized that the mob had come after
his prisoners.
The lynchers were quiet, but deter
mined. The leaders presented a revol-
yer at the head OF the deputy sheriff and
told him they wanted his prisoners anu
demanded that he open the cells which
they were confined in. Kelley demurred,
but saw that resistance was useless
ana uNlOEktU l1e Cells Two IIlbbuelH
were confined together and Lhe other
in separate cell. They had been
aroused from sleep by the entrance Of
the men and sat up half awake and
trembling with terror. Holy Track and
ireland were dragged from their beds,
ropes were fastened 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 the carcasses OF
slaughtered beeves and strung up on
cross beam. Coudot was the first man
to be hanged. II Is reported that he
was asked before he was hanged wheth-
er Black Hawk and Defender had al
so been concerned In the murder for
which he was about to be hanged. He
answered that they had been. The rope
which had been fastened about his
neck was then thrown over the cross
beam ana he was raised of the ground
and suspended In the air.
HOLY Track and Ireland were NO
nearly unconscious from the effects Of
the dragging that they did not realize
what was about TO happen when the
ropes about their neoks were tossed
over the same beam. They were un-
able 10 stand and were slowly raised
from the ground on which they laid un-
tll their bodies swung In the air aud
danPled from the wlndlass with that or
Goudot The mob then dispersed.
mounted their horses and rode away.