Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-26

murderer in the Jail. He has been so cool
and so hardened that most of them
thought he would die as unconcernedly
as possible.
"Tll bet you he will just naturally give
way: those brutal fellows always do"
said Bill Furay.
Then the difficulties attending an exc
cution where the most interesting party
refused to brace up, Were discussed and
the reporter thought they ought to be
given stimulants or something to give
them nerve. ,t~~-
Yes. but what will you do when they
won't take 'stmulants." responded Bill
makes me think of time that they
had down in Missoua ten of fifteen years
ago when they had to hang four of those
nerveless fellows: bucks at that and ca
pable of giving no end of trouble"
Sure of an interesting narrative of
some kind the crowd demanded an ac-
count of that particular hanging and
Furay settled back in his chair.
II forget what year it was, but think
it SO. 1 went down to Missoula on bust
ness and was delayed week or SO. I
found out that there was to be a hanging
for which the whole town was preparing.
Four Indians had committed a partich :
larly atrocious murder, or murders. I
forget which, and had been sentenced to-
hang. An Indian is an uncertain GUS.
TONER The real noble red man, the kind
you read about, and by the way I've met
a good many of that brand myself, would
have been ashamed at the way those
redskins acted over it.
'"They might have been all right before
they We're converted. I suppose they
would have been jerked to the happy
hunting ground without any serious OBJ
jections, but the sky-pilots took t into
their heads to make them good before
they were dead, which every old pioneer
knows is an impossiblity. But they all
got religion the worst way. And that
settled it. All knew they We're bad then
and objected to death.
when the morning of the execution
dawned the sheriff thought he would re-
sort to whisky to take their minds off
their troubles. But no, they had been too
thoroughly converted and they did not
want to swing into the other world with
out knowing all about it. When he found
he could not persuade them to take
whisky, he tried persuasion but the more
he talked the more detected the quartette
| became. When it came time to begin the
march to the scafford they just col
lapsed, their knees wobbled under them
ana there was no moving them unless
they were carried on tone by one. Things
they were carried out one by one. Things
We're at a standstill.
"Suddenly Frank Conley, who was to
escort one of the bucks, had a brilliant
| idea. He dropped his hold on Lala See.
| the Indian he had in tow. Lets give
J 'em shot," he suggested. ~
| "I'd like to, responded the sheriff, "but
the order for execution says hanged
I'd like to take a shot at them myself"
| and he glared at the Indians. 40
mo l don't mean that kind of a shot
| I mean morphine" responded Conley.
The sheriff grabbed the suggestion and
turned to the doctor. 1t lacked just 10
minutes of the time set to spring the
drop,l The doctor said that was plenty OF
time and even if they worked a few min
utes overtime there wasn't an execution
er.s union any nearer than China. So he
took the Indians one by one and gave
them a shot. They thought it was part
of the performance and submitted.
"The effect was simply miraculous.
Those Indians were changed beings.
They laughed and danced around and
were impatient for the finals. The buck,
Lala See proceeded to show how he
would act when the rope was around his
neck and finished with an air dance pan