Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1912-06-13

would not modest him further. He then
began to relate how we had hung the.
right man. He said that the one living
ON the ground, dead, as he supposed.
had killed Frazier, and how he came in
from the camp in the nighttime and
got an ak and broke into the store
where Mr.. Frazier was sleeping and
murdered him, and then admitted it to
him.
The Dead Came to Life.
About this time the supposed dead
Chinaman rose up and they had quite a
quarrel in their own language, accusing
and excusing each other, but admitting
that he did the killing together with
four others, and that the merchant paid
them sums ranging from 500 to $500
each for the job. There was intense
excitement among the Celestials during
this brief conversation. Our ihterr.rc
ter was standing by the tree taking it
all in. We then compelled this one I,
play dead, as it were, and brought out
another who admitted Immediately that
we had hung the two men who kidd
Frazier This brought forth another
quarrel, in which all took pa,t more
or less, and was the means of FURNISH
ing sufficient evidence to convict them.
We called court again and repeated the
Language used between the Cinnamon
during the excitement. They had to
admit it and thought that some Of
their number had betrayed them, not
knowing that we had man who could
talk their language, They got excited
and we kept them separated in order to
confuse them the more. Within an
hour we had evidence of the most con-
, vincing nature, each one trying to shift
the blame of the murder upon the othe,
) fellow, but only getting in deeper him
self, as the more falsehoods stated the
, more complicated became their case.
In this manner we got the evidence
and fixed the blame upon six China
4 men, five of whom we had under ar
!, rest, but the other fellow was gone ant
D never was found. We succeeded j,
proving them guilty of murder in tn
: first degree, and they were bound owe
to appear before. the grand jury a
Murray, Idaho, which was the count,
seat of Shoshone county at that time
a distance of about 425 miles.
n We selected four men to take ther
, to Murray, one driver and three guards
o all armed. Our party then left Pierc
r City for home, leaving the guilty Gu
N prits in the hands of the four mel
I" One was to drive the wagon and tn
II others were to guard them.
: Lynchers Act For Law.
X The. next report we had of the a
n, fair was that after we had been gOI
:. an hour or so they started with ii
d prisoners on their long journey to Mu
in ray, and, after they proceeded fe
n miles out of town, they were met by
IA lot of masked men, who overpowert
AZ them and demanded surrender of II
NJ prisoners. The Cinnamon We're take
he tout of the wagon and the guards we
If directed to return to Pierce City wi
IA the positive assurance tina if any
at them even looked back they would
of shot ON the spot.
ia They Immediately reported their a
venture to the authorities at Pier
City and all the men with few Chin
,rt men repaired to the place and fou
IT. the five Cinnamon dangling in the ;
as all dead. 1t apepars that pole h
"a. been dashed to two trees about 20 fe
nd apart and they were all hung to
IRE same pole. The guards reported tn
We the men who took the Cinnamon FRI
1ly them looked like Indians, as they
Ills had red bandana handkerehiefs oN
md their faces.
six Our party camped the first night
md Duke Wellington's ranch; the seco
nv day we reached Cold Springs. Our 81
was about exhausted and we had no
red ing but bacon rinds and flour for
ten supper. 1t was cold and we built a
cd, fire. We tried to sleep, but WI
n warming one side, the other would
all so cold that one couldn't sleep. Abb
ind daylight we saddled our horses
started for Bill CALDWELL ranch,
lis lance of about 20 miles, for breakf'
emit We reached there about nine o'clo
lck- and the way we made the cook hui
ind was not slow. Ham and eggs and
the bread with black coffee certainly q
hat ed good to us, having been out "a no
ing without anything but bacon rind
did bread.