The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-10-28
Indian Hanged for Murder Of
SweetheaTt's Aged Mother.
SHOT HER THROUGH A WINDOW
Then Carried OF Daughter % His Brsnche
but GAYS Himself Up a Week
Later

WcstoVers -. LAX, OCT. B.-Aileh
Walking Shield. a fuii-biooded Sioux In.
dian, was hanged at Sioux Falls Satur.
day because the white mans civiliza-
ton estranged his sweetheart, and be-
cause his attempt to elope with her
ended neither his way nor her mothers.
Walking Shield wore till his death
long, native hair and wrapped a guady.
vermillion blanket about him when he
slept I'm his teppee; so he didn't under
stand why Mabel Ghost-Faced Bear
wore strange clothes when she came
back from Carlisle Indian school, and
why she looked over his head when he
sought to claim her.
But he tried the white mans way
went at dead of night to get her and
carry her away into the Bad Lands.
But IT went wrong. for her mamma.
Mary Ghost-Faced Bear. intercepted
him and he shot her, and now is dead
that his sweetheart might have retri-
button.
LOVERS IN EARLY DAYS.
Ten or twelve years ago. when Walk
ing Shield was but reckless. stalwart
boy, the Indian maiden admired his
prowess and the two became friends.
Walking Shields native restlessnes3
found vent when he robbed the store
OF Sylvan Winter. the post trader at
Lower Brule agency. With tools pass
ed to him by the Indian girl, he sawed
his way from the jail. He ran to safe
ty amid the bullets OF the guards, Jump
Ing from side to side in zlgzag fashion
as an Indian does when trying to avoid
the marksman's aim. They ran behind
him to the river, mile away. Though
weak and painting. he leaped into the
Missouri. and with the bullets sending
up jets OF water about him. struck out
for the shore mile away. Eventually
he gained IT, made his way till OPP
posite the White river. when he SWAN
the river again and Joined his friends
on the Rosebud Reservation.
Walking Shield was now hero
among the Indians and the officers did
not rearrest him, fearing an uprising
Six years ago he and his brother were
put In the Deadwood jail for stealing
cattle. His brother committed suicide.
and one night Walking Shield struck out
for the foot hills, and was not recap
tured
While these adventures injured his So
cal standing among the Sioux In no way
nor the affection Of the girl for him. they
were not pleasing to Mrs. Ghost Faced
Bear Mabel was told In the ''ki-yi talk
never TO see her lover again. Red blood
runs under red skin as well as white. and
Mabel Ghost Faced Bear whispered to
Allen Walking Shield she would go with
him to some far hunting-groun
Walking Shield rode 10 the cabin lodge
one night, but Mrs. Mary Ghost-Faced
Bear expected him and the girl was lock-
ed I'm her room.
MAIDEN SENT AWAY
The next day Mabel was taken to the
agency and the outgoing stage carried
her away to the Carlisle Indian school
II was three years after when she came
back. She was a different girl. Half
civilized now, she shuddered at Walking
Shields deviltry
She would have none OF him. Walking
Shield went to his teepee and smoked long
at pipe OF kinnikinick. 1t was Mrs.
Ghost-Faced Bear who kept the girl from
him. Mrs. Ghost-Faced Bear must u.
pushed away. He decided to wait.
The night of May last the skies were
black with tumbling clouds. The gurgI-
ings OF the approaching storm drove the
red men to their tents But Walking
Shield did not sleep. At midnight ns
saddled his bronco, and rode away to the
cabin-lodge OF Mary Ghost Faced Bear.
In front OF her door he stopped. The
lightning flashes and explosions OF thun-
der excited his petulant blood and no
was soon half crazed. Suddenly he litteu
through the door.
There was a startled cry within, and
a moment later the Indian saw in n fash
OF yellow light the woman's face at tho
door. She flung IL shut. bolted IL and
hurried away. Walking Shield fired
through the back window and the woman
fell dead.
A moment later Walking Shield was
rousing the girl he sought. Somebody
shot at me as / passed the eepec,' ss
painted. Your monther hss gone for ins
police
But what was that no.se?" asked the
girl as she passed her mother. gasping
on the floor
Its nothing; just the splitting Of tns
lightning" he urged he stepped OUT
side and closed the door.
II won't go. I want to know who shot,"
demanded the girl
For answer the powerful Indian Gluten
ed her about the waist. lifted her TO the
pony's back and rode away down the
nearef& gulch. But a week later he gave
himself up.