Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-11-15
LYNCHED THE INDIANS.
North Dakota Mob Does the Deed Wthou, 0p-
position from Officers.
RED MEN WE'RE IN JAIL FOR MURDER.
Dragged from Their BEDS and Hanged to a
Beef windlass- Had Murdered
Family OF Six.

Bismarck, N. D., Nov. 1i.-Alex Cou-
dot indian hnlf-breed; Paul Holytrack
and Philip Ireland, full-bloodcd In
dians, the first of whom was sentenced
Ia death for the murder of six mem
hers Of the Splcer family last February,
and who had just been granted a new
trial by the supreme court, and the
latter two self-confessed accessories
in the murder, We're taken from the
county Jail in Emmons county last
pInht and lynched by mob. The
lynchlng had apparently been coolly
MANNED and was carried out without
""@'o and swift retribution
was meted out.
.....,.>.. whore the hanging
took place, is about forty miles from
this city and OFF the railroad. The
news of the lynChing was received here
his afternoon. The men had been un-
dor the custody of Deputy Sheriff Tom
the mob and hanged to II beef windlass
several yards. from the jail. Their
bodies were left hanging during the en-
tire day, the coroner not having ar
rived. and no one else volunteering to
cut them down.
the lynching. They rode into Williams
mort on horseback late at night and
tethered their horses II short distance
from the city that they might secure
them again as speedily as necessary,
after the deed was done.
he Jail is u subtantlal stone struc-
ture and was in charge of Deputy
sheriff Thomas Kelly. Since the con-
nnement of the prisoners there, SO
great has been the fear that they
might escape in some way that one
man has watched the prisoners all
night. Last night Kelly was on watch.
There was n meeting of the lodge of
Woodmen in n building near the Jail,
and as Kelly was a member he ex-
pected to meet some of the members of
the lodge after the meeting had ad-
journed To while away the time
during 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 outer door of the Jail
and Kelly arose quickly and turned the
key in the lock, thinking that the per-
sons he expected to meet had arrived
No sooner had he opened the door
than the mob crowded into the corri-
doris. All of them were masked, and
the leaders carried ropes. Kelly at
once realized what the mob had come
after.
me lNnFntTS were quiet nut utltT-
mined. The leaders 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 confined
together and the other in n separate
cell. They had been aroused from
sleep by the entrance of the would-be
lynChers and set up half awake and
trembling with terror. Holytrack and
Ireland were pulled from their beds,
ropes were fastened about their necks
and they We're 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 carcass of
slaughtered beeves and strung up on
cross beam.
Coudot was the first man to be
hanged. It ls reported that he was
asked before he was hanged whether
Hla X Hawk and Defender had also
been concerned in the murder for
which he was about to he hanged He
answered in the affirmative. The rope
which had been fastened about his
neck was then thrown over the cross
beam and he was suspended In mid air.
Holytra"k and Ireland were so near
" unconscious from the effects of the
dragging that they did not realize
what was about to happen when the
ropes about their necks were tossed
over the same beam. They were un-
able to stand and We're slowly raised
from the ground on which they lay.
until their bodies swung in the air and
danglcd from the wlndlass with that of
Coudot. The mob then dispersed,
mounting their horses and riding away.
Sovereign In 1900.
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