The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-11
TORTURED TO DEATH
LOVE or THIS COWBOY WAS
 oNL A JEST.
Most Remarkable Dream That Was Ever Dreamt of Any Land Dreamt Out in e Chinatown Joint
 Regarding Oklahoma.


 Flirting with an Indian girl in Okla homa is a dangerous pastime if one may judge from this remarkable story that appeared in a San Francisco newspaper. Because he thoughtlessly amused himself with the affections of a halfbreed maiden near Darlington a cowboy named Willis Andale has met the most terrible fate ever dreamed in all Chinatown.
 The contemplating smoker has young Andale tortured to death by an Indian girl who fancied she had been tilted by him. The manner of her retalia- tion, the fiendishness of the plot, and the coldblooded way in which it was consummated stamp an Indians desire for revenge as most merctless and atrociously vindictive," he writes. That any girl of any race could de- liberately torture her lover to death because he did not mean to marry her that she could glory in his misery hour by hour for three whole days un- til he breathed his last. seems almost incredible, but events speak for them- selves and cannot be gainsaid. I am going to marry girl or my own race said Andale to his compan- ion one day when he was out on horseback ride with her and the In- dian girl had broached the subject or marriage with herself as the bride. An dale was testing when he made the statement. but he sealed his fate with the careiessly uttered words, You will not marry me? question: ed his companion. with gleam in her black eyes that might have warned the young white had he seen 1t; but he was not watching just then for danger sig nals of any kind.
 Why, of course not was the laughing rejoinder. The law doesn't allow a man to have two wives, you know
 Lighting the Pipe. As the smoker lights up he says: Again the Indian girls eyes flashed like heat lightning. but Andaie did not know that a storm was gathering about him. and that every word he uttered was as a nail driven into his conn. It was not true that he intended marrying white girl. He thought that to say SO was the easiest way to ria himself of the Indian girls attentions. He merely meant to show her the use lessness of hoping or expecting that he would ever become her husband. "The sense of humor in halfbreed | is not sufficient it seems, to see the point of joke where the aHectlohs are concerned. Certainly it was not laughing matter with the Indian girl l who had conceived a mad passion for l the fun-loving cowboy. And so. since if is so dangerous a pastime to nirt- l in Oklahoma at least-with an lndiah l girl. Willis Andale lies in a western | grave. and she who murdered him sits l in sullen defiance behind prison bars
 while angry threats of lynehfng no"
 and then reach her ears, the mutter- ings of a mob of the dead man fiends and acquaintances wno are no'
 willing to await the calm action Of the flaw and who fear that the slayer Of Andale will slip through their fingers
 "Andale was A cowboy working on the 'Rix x ranch in the kiowa ana
 Comanche Indian reservation. ne anu
 the other cowboys were ip the naoie
 of going to the camps of Indian fami-
 lies and taking the girls of the tepees
 out riding on their ponies. time out
 of working hours hangs heavily on the
 hands of men who have so little ulVer-
 sion as these coWooys or the reseiva
 tion. hut. according to the testimony
 of Andale's friends, none of them had
 any intention of inspiring an infatua-
 tion in a tepee dweller's breast. They
 did not realize that one of their num-
 her was playing with fire, nor dio ne
 himseR realize 1t.
 Annie Killdeer is the name of the
 girl who fixed her savage affections up
 on Andale
 Putting in More Dope.
 He puts in more dope. and continues:
 "One night a few days following the
 cowpunchers confession, made so
 lightly and listened to so seriously. Annie Killdeer asked the young man l r;l | quiesced without a presentment or evil. not for a moment suspecting that he had looked his last upon the faces
 of his cowboy friends and that the goal
 of the journey would be death in a
 dreadful form.
 | They started about dusk, the girl | seated behind the horseman. as is the | custom in Oklahoma. With all or an Indians cunning and the instinct or fiend she persuaded him to take much I longer ride than ever before, Every thing favored her plan. The evening was cool and delightful. The moon rose. enveloping them in it's soft, sil- very light The girl seemed never In | such gay spirits. She used every art known in her untutored but intuitive nature to keep Andale interested. for each mile put between them and the | reservation made the success or her plans more certain.
 "It is in truth dangerous pastime to fiirt with an Indian girl who can | not perceive a joke.
 They were crossing creek. when, | to the cowboys amaZement, his hands were suddenly and neatly pinioned by lasso in the grasp of the girl behind l him.
 "Andale struggled for freedom, but I was poWerless. In a moment he was securely bound by rope which the girl had concealed beneath her clothing. They rode on for several hundred yards the man trying to fathom the mean ing of the strange conduct on the part of his captor. the girl keeping myster- ious silence. Reaching a bare spot in the open prairie she compelled him at | the point of a pistol to dismount. Filling the Pipe Again. Then came a desperate struggle be- tween the disabled cowboy and the savage creature whose purpose in allur- ing him away that night was now only too plain to her victom. It was not long before he was flung to the ground l and tied there. face upward. to stakes that had been driven into the arth by his tormentor or a previous visit there alone.
 But Annie Killdeer did not even then tell Andale what she meant to do. You thought I was a fool she