Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-04-28
INDIAN IS ARRA|GN[D
George Soldier Believed to Be
Solely Responsible For Ma
Sha-Che's Murder
NO EVIDENCE OF A PLOT
Prosecution Will Rely Upon Testimony
of Reputable Witnesses to Establish
Fact of Soldiers Guilt-Jealousy
and Whisky Responsible for the
Tragedy.
Special to Times-Republican

Special to Times Republican.
Cedar Rapids, April 2S. George
Soldier. the Indian accused of the muir
der of Ma-Sha-Che, the granddaughter
of Chief Push-Ton. E.-Qua will be ar
raigned in federal court here this al
ternoon before commissioner j. y.
Stewart Soldier has secured Des
Moines attorney named Mulvaney to
depend him and considerable interest
in manifested as to what the line of
defense will be.
Yelled accusations which threaten to
disrupt Muskwaki tribal ties, have
been directed against a squaw as an
abettor in accomplishing the death OF
Ma Che, the pretty Indian GIRL
whose distigured remains were found
by a farmer in a ravine near Montour
April IA, month after her mysteri-
Gus disappearance from the Tama res
ervation That jealousy and hatred OF
a dangerous rival, ranking I'm wom-
ans heart, gave impulse to ierce
desire for revenge and a determination
to strike triumphant blow no mat
ter what the cost, We're emotions thal
led to the formation of a plot to en-
compass the death of a-Sha-Che, by
arousing the jealousy of Soldier 1of
the girl, is solution of the mystery
that has been offered. Whisky was the
instrument of destruction, chosen by
the rival to accomplish her end, and
Soldier the medium, declare accusers.
That there exists no foundation for
such accusation is declared by those
who had witnessed the fatal romance
from it's beginning when Soldier wed
Ma Shat Che, to the end when the
beautiful girl was found murdered
and the branch of guilt placed upon
her estranged husband.
Mad jealousy inflamed by liquor was
responsible FOR the crime, they de-
clare. And no hand other than that
of George Soldier had ever been rails
ed against Ma-Sha- Che.
The evidence woven by federal au-
thorities against Soldier will be that
testimony of reputable citizens. 1t IS.
believed that Soldier hoped to eyade
the penalty of law by emulating Frank
Earl's tactics with regard to Indian
testimony. But federal authorizes
claim to have effectually blocked that
avenue of escape.
Married When Thirteen.
Ma-Sha Che, the belle of the Indian
countryside, was a pretty miss OF thlr-
teen when wooed and wed by George
Soldier, a brave, with many winning
graces and that which is even more
appealing and irresistible to the femi-
nine heart-a past. A strain of pale
face blood flowed in Ma-Sha-Che's
veins. say the old men of the tribe.
Incompatiblity fastened an es-
arrangement and the girl and her hus-
band sought new companions Soldier
married the 15-year-old daughter Of
Poweshiek, but he could not overcome
his first love for Ma-sha-Che.
He made advances to her and was
repealed. Time and again he pleaded
for reconciliation but was greeted with
scorn and contempt until one day in a
store at Tama. the girl listened to her
tempter.
Motive of crime-JeaIousy.
On March 4, Ma-Sha-C Soldier
and Poweshiek met on Mill race bridge
near the reservation, and held high
revelry About shutdown Ma Sha- Che
and Soldier started down the track and
that was the last ever seen of the girl
alive. 1t is believed that they had
planned to elope, and the girl repent
ant, upon recovering from the effects
of the liquor exercised her better iudg-
ment, and upon refusing to fulfill her
part Of the plan was murdered by her
jealous lover.
Earlier in the evening farmers had
seen them crawling thru wire
fence. Screams and a pistol shot
heard by neighbors was attributed to
drunken Indians returning from town.
A farmer in his field observed the form
of skulking Indian disappear in the
gathering darkness. A week later a
shawl of bright color worn by the In
dian girl was found in haystack near
by.
While crossing ravine on the farm
of Levi Armant on Friday, April IA,
the mutilated remains of the muir
dered girl was found by George Cor
ley.
United States Marshal Healy was
summoned to conduct an investigation
which resulted in the arrest of George
Soldier on warrant charging him
with the crime.
After an autopsy and inquest over
the remains, the coroner's jury at
Tama rendered verdict that Ma Sha-
Che came to her death feloniously and
that George Soldier committed the