The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-24
HURRY up ALL HE SAID
Allen Walking Shield, the Sioux In.
dian Murderer, Executed at =
u ss.s+.' Sioux Falls. -.
Special to. The Journal.

Special to The Journal H>-
Sioux Falls, S. D., Oct 24.-The hang
ing of Allen Walking Shield, the Sioux
Indian murderer, at the county court
house this forenoon, was one of the most
successful In the history of the north
west. He was brought to the scaffold
at 9:O3, the trap was sprung at 1904, and
he was pronounced dead at 9:22. Every
thing went without the slightest hitch.
Walking Shield did not finch in the
least degree. Hurry up was all he said
while the deputies were arranging the
rope and black cap.
Unprovoked Murder.
The story Of the crime for which Walk
ing Shield was hanged shows it to have
been wholly needless and unprovoked. The
victim was Mrs. Ghost Faced Bear, an
Indian woman, who with her daughter
lived at an isolated spot on Little White
river, on the Rosebud reservation. Walk
ing Shield was enamored of the daughter,
whose name is Mabel. His love for the
girl was the direct cause Of the murder Of
her mother.
| The crime was committed on May last.
Walking Shield procured a gun and rode
on horseback to the home of Mrs. Ghost
Faced Bear. He must have loiteree5 along
the way, OF concealed himself for several
hours in the vicinity of the house, for it
was not until about 10 o'clock that night
that he made his presence known to the
occupants Of the cabin.
The widow and her daughter heard a rap
at the door, and soon afterwards a shot
was fired outside the house. They were
naturally greatly alarmed, and both arose
without delay and lighted lamps in each
of the two rooms.
Soon after this had been done a shot
was fired through a window, the charge
striking the widow little back of and
below the right ear at the base of the
skull The charge went completely
through the head, tearing out the woman 9
left eye as it emerged.
After killing the woman, Walking Shield
broke through the door leading from the
| outside to the room where the body lay,
and from there went to the room occupied
by the frantic Indian girl. He demanded
that she run away with him. This request
was refused and the murderer immedi-
ately attacked her. She has since stated
that she fought him until daylight, when
she succeeded in; escaping from the house,
with her assailant in pursuit. Walking
Shield admitted to the girl that he had
killed her mother.
When the half-crazed girl escaped from
the house about daylight and was closely
pursued by Walking Shield, the murderer,
to terrify her still more, swung a lariat
around her as If to fasten it's coils about
her body. He then mounted his horse and
told her she must &c. with him. Frightened
into obedience she complied and trudged
along on foot beside. his horse until an OPP
portunity came for her to run into house
they were passing.
Walking Shield, as soon as the girl had
succeeded in escaping, rode away and for
about eight days eluded the Indian police
men. Heawas captured about o'clock on
the morning Of May 16 by two Indian po-
licemen, named Kills Two and Little Day.
The prisoner: was taken to Rosebud
agency, where he was placed in Jail, af-
forwards being turned. over to Deputy
Petrie, who took him to Chamberlain,
where his preliminary examination was
held and where yhe remained in custody
until taken to Deadwoed in September for
trial. The death penalty was imposed by
Judge John D. Garland, of the United
States court, In accordance with the YER
dict of the jury. Walking Shield was then
brought to Sioux FANS.
III one of his ScofMe asions, which was
made" to "a. McFatridg& school teacher at
Rosebud agency; aarH others, he stated in
effect, that he had han trouble with Mrs.
Ghost: Faced Bear and that was why he
killed her. To others me said he killed the
woman because she would not permit her
daughter to become This wife. This un-
questionably was the true motive.