The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1910-09-23
SHERIFF IN TOLLS
SHERIFF OF CORSON COUNTY
IN HANDS OF UNCLE SAM
ON SERIOUS CHARGE
GAVE LIQUOR To INDIANS
RAD hem Arrested For jntoxication
ana at Mock Trial, Under
hreats. 6xtorted Noney
by Fine


Aberdeen-On the COMPLAINT Of r
L. Brents, United States specia
oiHcer attached to the Indian sery-
Ice, William Wallace, United STAT g
commissioner for this city, has held
( George 2. Perry, sheriff of Corson
county, TO await the action of the fed
eral court, his bond beng placed at
slooo, which he could not furnis h and
VIII therefore be sent to jail at Sioux
rails until federal court convenes.
Ihe charge against Perry is that of
furnishing Indians on the Standing
ROCK reservation with liquor, the spe-
clhc charge being that on the night OF
November 26, 1909, Perry supplied
Martin Red Bird aud Frank Sees Bear
with one pint Of gin, one pint OF
whisky, one pint of beer and five pints
OF other intoxicating liquors, the two
men In question being Standing Rock
SlouX Indians. The government will
Drlng other charges of a far more ser
louS nature against Perry and some
accomplices who are yet to be ar
rested
According to the story told by Mar
TIN Red Bird, and sworn to by him,
Perry in November, 1909, came to
Red Bird and Sees Bear on the Stand
Ing Rock reservation in CorSon coun-
ty, and pulling a gun on them, told
them they were under arrest for intOX-
ication. He then informed the In
dians, who We're badly frightened.
that there was no judge at Mcintosh,
the county seat of Corson county, ana
they would have to be taken to Mo-
bridge, in Walworth county, whore
there was judge, Tor trial. Accord
lngly the Indians We're placed on
board a train and taken to Mobridge
where they were lodged in Jail. The
next day they were taken before what
purported to be Judge and a duly
organized court, where a mock trial
was held, and the Judge imposed a
fine of $500 Before the trial Perry
is alleged to have supplied the Indians
with the quantity of liquor above men
toned, in order to render them in
toxicated and therefore apt to be
more easily impressed with the pro-
ceedings of the mock court. The treat
ment appeared to be effective, for, ac-
cording to Red Birds affidavit, they
were assured by Perry that if they id
not pay the fine imposed by the
Judge" they would be imprisoned III
the county Jail for twelve months.
Red Bird and Sees Bear thereupOn
wired wealthy Indian named Aear,
on the reservation, urging him to seld
them the $500 at once. He did So TAX
ing a mortgage on their 1--we stock to
secure the Indebtedness, and the In
dians turned the money over to the
court, to pay the fine imposed. They
also, 1t is alleged, paid Perry some
thing over s53 for mileage and en-
penses in bring them to Mobridge. The
red men were kept in Jail for several
days while the deal was being car
ried through.
Major Belden. the Indian agent, fin
ally heard of the treatment the two
men, who are fullblooded Indians, and
wards of the government had receiv
ed. The Indian bureau was notified,
and Mr.. Brents, who was then on hi
way east from Seattle. was assigned
to the case. He has been working on
it for the past month.
Yesterday Perry, fearing arrest, at
to make his getaway by hid
ing in box car on a Milwaukee train.
Mr.. Brents located his man, however, /
and effected his arrest between Mcln- 1
tosh and Morristown. He brought his /
prisoner to Aberdeen, where he was /
turned over to United States Deputy /
Marshal Barney McVey, aud taken be- .
fore Commissioner Wallace. 1t is eX-
pected Perry's accomplices will be in .
custody in short time.
The instance in question, it is .
is not the only case of the
grating Of the Standing Rock Indians
by white men. 1t is charged that
many others of the more gnorant /
members of the tribe have been blk
I'd" of more or less large amounts on
similar trumped up charges, the
whites taking advantage of their ig-
lorance of the customs of the law TO
righten them into disgorging all the
'eady money they could lay their
lands on in order to square them
selves with the officers on some pure
Y imaginary charge. The extent OF
he grating. when the case is fully
worked up, will. it is believed, prove
he most startling that has ever oc-
urred in the northwest.