The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-09-16
IBAPAH HELD
FOR PARRICIDE.
Motley Assembly in Eureka Court
Room.
tragedy OF TIE PLAINS
INDIANS TESTIFY IN INDIAN
MURDER CASE.
lsneelal 70 The Rerald1

- I-EEkA. sept. ia ulIty Whltei
! blood-stained sonlbrero. a Win
i chester rife with a broken stock
ana half a dozen swarthy Indians were
,be star attractions this morning at
che preliminary examination Of iba-
nah the young Indian charged with
Killing his father. Lucky Joe. at Indian
-sBeh. in the Deep Creek valley, In the
western part Of Juab county. on the
,srh day OF last month. The charge
was murder, and Justice OF the Peace
Burns held the accused 10 appear be-
fore the district court at Nephi on
Oct q and remanded him o. the Gus
tody Of sherln Cronin. who viii take
him to the county jail at Nephi.
A Motley Crowd.
Tarlton Martin. plainsman and pros
hector who arrested Ibapah at the
scene OF the crime and placed him In
tha custody OF the sheriff Of Tooele
county. arrived here yesterday after
noon with Greasy Jim, the only eye
witness 20 the killing. and Dave Eagle,
an ecclesiastical looking red man. who
VAS dressed In a badly battered Prince
Albert coat and "a shirt that had once
been white. The trio had driven $50
miles through the alkah dust or the
desert and 10 was hard al trst 10 dis
tnguish white man from the red. Thls
morning there came from Skull valley
a small regiment more of the red men,
headed by Dick Mooneye a venerable
chief who says he Is 30 years old ana
looks 20 be about 90. Dick Is intelli-
sent and speaks very good English.
lie acted as interpreter ana Nolun-
teered the Information that he had
known the dead Indian FOR nifty years
before he was married, and he was no
good" Ibapah pleaded not guilty 10
the charge Of murder and sat through
out the trial with the stoicism or MS
race. occasionally rolling and lighting
q cigarette He had no counsel and
much OF the evidence admitted was OF
a hearsay nature. Mr.. Martin testified
that he saw the Indian, zoe, before the
killing occurred, and that he was not
drunk. He described the three wounds
on the head Identified the hat and
broken rifle as belonging TO the dead
man. and told Of arresting lbapah,
whom he took first 10 the ranch or w.
j. Faust and later 20 Tooele city. lie
said Ibapah told him he killed his IA
Their. and repeated Ibapah's language.
as follows. Il came up behind him;
he had gun under his arm, / Jerked
gun away from him ans walked around
in front of him and Told him 10 he
stu He made motion 20 draw knife
and hit him with gun. He fall down
and 1 strike him twice more"
Story of Killing.
Sheriff CrOnin testified to bringing
the prisoner from Tooele City, and
that Ibapah told him he killed his
father. The sheriff was followed by
Greasy Jim, whose appearance does
not belle his name. Through Chief
MoOneye. the interpreter, Jim testified
that Joe Lucky" was drunk and had
fired two shots at lbapah's mother and
one al his sister. little girl Thai
Joe was a dead shot, but missed his
targets because he was drunk and they
were running about. lapah's mother
called on him for protection and h'
took the gun away from his fathe
and told him 20 be quiet. Joe de
Clared he would not keep quiet, ant
someone had 20 die. and that ne woul'
KIN Ibapah. Then ibapah hit him viii
the gun three times. The dead maj
didn't seem 10 have a friend amonl
the Indians. all OF whom declared hin
10 be- a bad fn1uu.'
Deputy County Attorney Bowen con
Quoted the case and did not make I
severe arraignment OF the prisoner
nor did ne insist that the homicide b
held for trial, but said that IL ap
pearrd that there had been muel
drunkenness and promiseuous shooting
by the Indians. and unless some penal
Is was Imposed. the aborigines Nigh
go 20 the extreme. The court lmme
dlatrly stated that On his opinion IN
evidence showed that a crime lad beel
committed, and held the prisoner q
the district court. IL is probable tia
the county attorney win Investigate
the selling OF liquor % the Indians
The district Is remote from here. Ii
the extreme western part Of the cOunt
and near the Nevada state line