The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-08-05
INDIAN GIRLS CRIME.
Staked the Man She Was infatuated
With to the Ground.
CWichita CKan.) Correspondence chicago

CWichita (Kan) Correspondence chicago
Inter ocean,
Annie KilIdeer. a half-breed AraOahoe
squaw, is a prisoner at Darlington, o. t.
charged with having committed ore OF
the most atrocious crimes in the history
of the Indian country, where savage
cruelty has conceived md carried out
many forms of devilish ofenses-
Jealous because Willis Andale, her
sweetheart, had discarded her for white
girl. Annie KiIldeer staked him out on
the barren prairie in the burning sun,
within sound of a ripping brook, and let
him choke 70 death for want of water
She sat by his side, watching his agony
and haunting him with the tact that ms
proposed marriage with the white girl
would never take place
The girl has boosted openly of how sne
tortured Andale TO death, and his body
was found staked out on the plain at the
spot she indicated II was on her own
confession of guilt that. she was arrested
and is now held under guard
Andale was a cowboy, who worked on
the Big Y ranch, in the kiowa and Co
manche country, soon to be opened 10
whites. He and other cowboys had been
in the habit of going to the camp OF the
kiildeer family and taking the girls OF
the tepeeS out riding on their ponies
This was common pastime 10 them. 50
say the friends of the dead man, and the
COW punchers thought little of any of the
red maidens falling In love. But that is
and when she found that young Andaie
did not reciprOcate her affections she was
determined TO have revenge
She asked Andale to accompany her on
a horseback ride last Monday evening
about dusk. She rode on the same pony
behind him, as was their fashion. When
he was guiding the pony over Washita
creek she threw q lasSO around his hands
and had him tied fast before he knew
what was going on. Then, according 70
her own story, she took him 10 a bare
spot on the open prairie and tied MIN Iace
upward Stakes were driven into the
ground and his wrists and ankles were
tightly anchored to them. After she mad
tied him tightly near the banks of the
creef. she sat on the grass near him tor
three days and three nights All the
while he cried aloud for water and food.
The noise of running water over a fall
in the creek came plainly 10 his ears, Dul
he could not get it. She tainted MIN
about his manner Occurring and said u
would be his last
Before starting on the ride the girl had
said that she and Anda}e were going TO q
dance at the Otoe camp, fifty miles south
and might not set back for week. Thi.
OF course kept Andal6's friends from
worrying about his absence
At the beginning Of the fourth day the
cowboy could stand the heat no Longer
and he died, with her taunts ringing il
his ears The girl then returned to Oar
lingtOn and told her story She gave her
SELF up to Deputy Marshal Sneed and III
placed her in a cell to await trial II
September.
The cowboy friends Of Andale have al
ready tried twice TO get into the Jail 81
they might take her out and lyncn ner
and unless they quiet down she viii be t.
moved to the FL Reno Jail. The squaV
IS a member of the Ara pahoe tribe, ana
is considered quite beauty among hel
people She has been charged with mur
dering several white men before, but al
ways succeeded in escaping conviction