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INJURIES RECEIVED IN AN AUTO .
ACCIDENT END EXTRAORDINARY
CAREER OF WILLIAM j. JEWETT

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arrive on the spot, and he sat up with
the dead and living all the following
night. He stated today to The Free
Press that with him in performing this
service were his sister, Miss Eliza Bar
ney, Miss johnson and George Yates.
The bodies had been taken.to the home
of f. p. Evans at Garden City, and the
babe and the grandfather, still alive,
were also there The old man passed
away during the night. When he ar
rived, he found the child's father and
mother and grandmother and cousin
dead
Story Of the Massacre.
A full account of the massacre is
given in the history of Blue Earth
county prepared by Thomas Hughes.
and is as follows:
Andrew j. Jewett had for a num-
Der of years been prominent citi-
zen of Garden City, where for time
he had held the position of postmaster.
He was very active and energetic both
in the local politics of the county and
in business. The previous summer
he had purchased the northwest quar-
ter of section thirty three in Rapidan
was living there with his wife, Har-
riet Jewett, their two year old son,
William, and Mr.. Jewett's parents,
Mark Jewett, aged seventy three, and
Susan Jewett, aged sixty three, the
latter being an invalid. With the
family working at this time was a
young man twenty years old named
Charles Tyler, relative of the
Jewett's whose father, Moses Tyler,
had been killed by horse kick the
year before, and whose widowed mo-
Their lived on the claim across the
road from S. T. Mills in Garden City.
Mr.. Jewett was now about thirty
two years old and Mrs. Jewett about
thirty, both in the prime OF life. Mr..
Jewett had a friend in the army,
Marshall T. FALL second lieutenant of
Colonel B. Brackets Battalion of Ca
valry, who, about the first of April,
1865, sent Mr.. Jewett some $500 in
money to pay for a farm he had bid
off for him at the second sale of the
Winnebago lands, which payment it
was expected would be demanded soon.
1t seems that in Company A of the
same regiment was half breed Sioux,
named John L. Campbell, a brother of
Baptist Campbell, one of the thirty
eight Indians hung at MankatO in
1862 He had gotten well acquainted
with Lieutenant Fall, having occupied
the same tent, and knew of his send
ing the money to Mr.. Jewett and
where the latter was living in Blue
Earth county. He had always borne a
hard reputation and was accused of
| two or three murders among the In
dams. Soon after Lieutenant Fall had
sent the money, Campbell deserted
and came back to Minnesota Tie
repaired Immediately to Fort Ridgely
and thence west, where he met among
the hostile bands some of his old In
dian and half breed friends. Five of
these he induced to join him in raid
into Blue Earth county, pretending he
wished to avenge the death Of his
brother, and also holding out pros
poets of rich booty in horses and goods.
The success of former raids, which
mad been made into the same locality
was also pointed out. Stealing eau.
tiously by the lines of military posts,
they arrived near the Jewett home on
the evening of May lst, 1865. The
next morning at about half past six
o'clock while the family were eating
breakfast, the Indians came upon them
suddenly through the east door of the
cabin. There was another door at the
north end of the cabin, and Mrs
Jewett snatched up her little boy
and dashed out through this door
followed by her husband. Some of the
Indians fired upon them and pursued
them. Mr.. Jewett fell within foul
rods of the house with a bullet
not necessarily fatal, but an Indian
Immediately struck him with his tom
ahawk over the right eye fracturins
his skull and killing him instantly
|, His wife fell dead in the path about
eight rods from the house with bull
|, let near the heart. The little chil(
was struck severe blow on the hea(
and left on the ground for dead, tel
feet from its mother. Twenty rod
north of the house in small ravin'
!. in the timber, Charles Tyler wa
J chopping. Him they shot dead through
!. the breast with ball, bucksho
and an arrow. Mark Jewett, TIL
old gentleman had apparently JUS
pushed his chair back from the tabl
when he was shot in the forehead
) the ball coming out near the crown
An Indian had then dealt him tw
/, terrible blows with his tomahawk on
: cut, a cash five inches long, extend
? ing from the top of the head to nea
the right ear, the second cash abou
!. an inch forward of the other wa
, about three inches long. Mrs. Jewett
6 ST., had been tomahawked in bed. On
s of the savages had struck her wit
g the back of his tomahawk on the fore
o head and nose smashing that part @
: her head in, and on top of her hea6
; and on the right of her forehead
). were two frightful gashes made b
4 the blade of the tomahawk. Sh
must have been killed INSTANTLY TIL