The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-25
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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 siXtyfour square inches
OF his scalp, trimming 1t of just back
OF the ears.
Believing his victim To be dead by this
time. the chief abandoned him. but 9TH
erS 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 sayages 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 Investi-
gate and learn whether the Sioux mad
been properly met or not by the III fated
mand Was very properly court -martialcd
and dismissed In disgrace from the SER
"iCc- He never gave any satisfactory rea-
son for his outrageous and cowardly con-
duct.
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
scalpcd and had received fourteen dis
tinct wounds. any one of which would
have terminated the life of the ordinary
man There were four minor wounds be-
sides
McGee's Insanity and Revenge.
ATtcr lnterrlng mo dead. the soldiers
FASTENED to Fort Larned, thirty miles
distant, whero young MCGEE was placed
Under tho care of the post surgeon, 1t
was three months before he was able TO
be moved from there. During that tImo
no had fair command OF his mental fac-
ulties, and was sufficiently strong to tell
all the incidents Of the attack.
Bnrret tho owner of the caravan who
lad remained in LeaVenworth, on hear
ing what had bcfellcn his property, put
In a claim Tor big damages from the
ont Il NNTn0 E.1h NNNYN
which made him independent for life but
he persistenty refused TO do anything
for the sole survivor.
McGsc's claims were laid before the
President. and In October 1854, Mr.. Lin
cCln sent him letter and pass by spe-
oial envoy, directing him to come To
Washington rs soon aS he was able 10
travel, and stating that he himself would
sec that McCsee's wrongs were righted
Gen. Curtis, who WAS than in command
of the Department OF the West Saw Nc
Gee soon after he was scalped, and gavo
lin a standing order upon the Govern
ment for clothes and rations. Dr, Clark.
'he surgeon Mt Fort Larncd, who had
nurscd the boy. recommended in his otH-
Cial report OF the case that the Brulc
Sioux be assessed s500,O00 for tho benefit of
'he maltreatcd lad, This report was sup
pressed. however, by the "Quaker-Pcace-
Policy" ring then In control OF tho Indian
department.
NYhcn McGeo had recovered sufficiently
to move about, his mind, which had been
remarkably clear up To that time began
20 cloud, and he became possessed OF
mania to hunt Sioux to the death. In one
OF his fr,.zied spells the pass and the let
tor from Pres,Ssnt Lincoln were stolen
from him. anu uz,ther the President nor
the army took an5- further notice of him.
For a dozen years after receiving his
injuries. MCGEE was a Wanderer. He
sought the companlonship OF various
tribes OF Indians learning many lam
guages and dialects. He was friendly to
all and favored by all excepting the Brule
Sioux OF whom Little Turtle was stlll
chief The ese Brulcs he hunted mercllcss-
lN and one day when IL was discovered
that Little Turtle had been wiped out,
il was said that the biggest notch on Nc