The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-09
ZhOn-ne, Redskin Murderer.
Be Given Ten Years in
Prison.
NOW DYING SLOWLY,
HIS PHYSICIANS sal
Confinement and Growth OH n
Neck Are Sapping His
Life.

Because of the wild, barbarious n
which he has led and his innocence d
the ways Of life off the frontier, Zho1
ne, the Indian murderer, is to be shovI
lenlency when he comes up befo<
Judge Marshall in the United Stat
district court week from tomorro@
on a charge of 6rst-degree murder. Ia
ing pity on the redskin in his deplo<
able condition, United States Distri1
Attorney II. E. Booth will recommen
That he be allowed to plead guilty A
n charge of manslaughter and taxa
ten year sentence In the federal pris0
at Leavenworth, Kan. The Indian.
charged with one of the most dastar.
~ murders of recent years, having ah
a trading post keeper in cold blood
The sentence of the Indian to o.
term in the federal prison is the sau
as sentencing him TO slow death, a
cordIng to physicians who have be-
attending him for some time past. G
his neck is growth which is graduaI/
sapping his life and which the docto|
say will kill him within year q
will be a remarkable case if he liv1
over that time, it is said
Victim of Torture.
| The Indian is a victim of the ND
horrible torture possible to An IndiaI
! He was arrested nearly q year and
| half ago and brought to Salt Lake SOD
afterward, where he was placed in q
county Jail. Deprived of his natix
haunts and confined to the inside.
| began to lose weight rapidly, and
now a mere shadow of what he N
when first arrested. He is unabIe
speak English and cannot communicaI
his wants or his pains, except by sisu
He Is suffering tortures from the grow
on his neck, which is gradually tie1
ening up and choking him to deal
But the tortures which are worse thn
all else are those of the conGnemeI
Full Blood Navajo.
Zhon-ne is ull-blooded Navajo. p
was reared on the reservation and fr0
cred bad Indian. He spent his On
! fall of 1909 near sunset he was ridiu
over the wastes when he came acfo|
the trading post of Heffernon. He q
i hungry and asked the trading po|
keeper. Charles Fritz, for something
eat. He was given SOME bread q
cheese and after eating it went outs
and secured broken bend .22-ealib|
rifle and returning shot Fritz. He the
robbed the place and escaped TO D
mothers ranch fifty miles away.
Indian passing by the post found Fit
body and rode thirty~five miles to spre1
the alarm at the Indian agency.
Crime Is Confessed.
a posse of Indian police hurried 4
the scene and trsiled Zhon-ne to
hiding place. He confessed to Il
crime and was taken to jail at Blu
where he attempted to murder Z
.iailer with a prong of a pitchfork-
was unsuccessful and was soon att
ward brought to the county jail in s.
Lake. where he has since been. VII
he caught sight of the trains and II
astonishing things OF civilization he n
conquered. He became frightened a.
it was necessary to chain higl. He h
since lived in mortal dread of sone
the things he saw on the streets \
Salt Lake, including street cars, aut
mobiles and big buildings. Il
! 1t was considered advisable to She
the Indian mercy because of the u
usual circumstances surrounding U
case, and for that reason Attorn<
Booth decided upon the ten-year ter