The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-22

bleeding, Little Turtle fired two ar
rows into his body, pinning him to the
earth. Then, in a transport of fiend-
ishness, he took. Roberts own pistol
and shot him, the bullet lodging in his
backbone. Not quite satisfied that he
had made a good job of it, he stopped
over the PROSTATE boys body, and.
running his knife around his head.
lifted sixty-four square inches of his
scalp, trimming it off just back of the
ears.
Believing his victim to be dead by
this time. the chief abandoned him, but
others of the band, in passing, hacked
him with their knives and poked holes
into him with their long lances. All
the others in the train were long since
dead, killed outright, and their bodies
mutilated.
After the savages had completed
their work they rode, whooping and
yelling. away, and the troops that had
witnessed the whole affair from their
vantage ground came upon the scene
TO investigate and learn whether the
Sioux had been properly met or not by
the i'll fated men of the caravan The
officer in command was very properly
court martialed and dismissed in dis
grace from the service. He never gave
any satisfactory reason for his out
rageous and cowardly conduct
The only part the troops took in the
affair was to bury the dead When they
attempted to put young MCGEE under
the ground they found very lively
corpse, despite the fact that he was
scalped and had received fourteen DIS
tinct wounds, any one of which would
have terminated the life of the ordinary
man.
After interring the dead the soldiers
fastened to Fort Larned, thirty miles
OF Mt vxyh ~,Io
under the care of the post surgeon. 1t
was three months before he was able to
be moved from there.
Barrett, the owner of the caravan.
who had remained in Leavenworth, on
hearing what had befailen his property
put in claim for big damages from the
Government ds.was awarded a sum
which made him independent for life,
but he persistently refused to 10 any
thing for the sole survivor.
McGee's claims were laid before the
President, and in October, 1864. Mr..
Lincoln sent him letter and pass
by special envoy, directing him to come
to Washington as soon as he was able
to travel, and stating that he himself
would see that McGee's wrongs were
righted.
When MCGEE had recovered sufficient
ly to move about, his mind, which had
been remarkably clear up to that time.
began to cloud, and he became pos
sessed of a mania to hunt Sioux to the
death. In one of his frenzied spells
the pass and the letter from President
Lincoln were stolen from him, and
neither the President nor the army
took any further notice of him.
For a dozen years after receiving his
injuries MCGEE was a wanderer, and
when it was discovered that Little
Turtle had been wiped out it was said
that the biggest notch on McGee's gun
barrel commemorated the full measure
of his revenge, long mark for the
chief and nine shorter ones for the sub
ordinate head men who had bitten the
dust at the command of the unerring
rifle that never failed to execute its
mission when pointed at Brulc's
breast
After Little Turtle had been sent to
the happy hunting grounds McGee's
mind began 20 regain its norma, equi-
librium, until DIT last he once more be-
came perfectly Sane