The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-07-21

way OF the wolves and coyotes, and
then Spo Pee went on the warpath III
earnest. NO longer was the white man
the enemy OF his people The white
man was now Spo Pee s own deadly
enemy and he swore an oath that he
would not die until 10 of the white
men were gone 20 their reckoning as
! payment for his mothers murder
The old army records show that the
officer who ordered the massacre was
/ severely reprimanded for his bloody
work, but all the reprimands Of earth
would not restore the mother TO Spo
/ Pee
! A day or two later the body OF a
murdered white man was found on the
plains. Spo Pee was rounded up by
the soldier patrol and because he was
the only Indian found in the territory
OF Montana near the body OF the white
man. he was brought to trial before
the territorial courts
The proud spirit OF the Indian
brave scorned TO beg for mercy or
even 20 plead in his own behalf. He
was found guilty OF murder by the
court, but the Judge was a kind man
and he felt that Spo Pee. il he. killed
the white man, had been acting along
the natural lines OF indian revenge
The penalty for murder in Montana
in those days was a quick hanging,
the quicker the better, but Spo Pee
had earned the sympathy of the trial
Judge and the sentence was made
life Imprisonment. rather than the
death penalty
When Spo Pee was sentenced TO
spend all the rest OF his life behind
prison bars and never again 70 feel
the freedom of the wide prairies, his
spirit did not bend for he deigned
not TO ask the nature OF his fate He
felt that the white man would put him
10 death at leisure. and as behtted a
brave OF the Blackfoot race, he would
not show a sign that terror was at his
heart and brain.
They took Spo Pee TO the old Detroit
federal prison, and the name Of Spo
Pee began 10 grow dim. To the sol
diers he was only an Indian" and
not worth worrying about The grass
grew long above Spo PEGS trail and
he no longer hunted the buffalo and
the white man on the rolling plains
of Montana
troit Spo Pee merely believed that his
Imprisonment was another variety OF
the refined cruelty OF the white man
He was convinced that his imprison
ment was merely the forerunner Of
his death--a pause before the white
man led him forth and executed him
I'm some diaholic fashion as happened
10 suit the tastes OF the white man
al that moment
His guards at tho Detroit prison
however felt that Spo PEGS mind was
falling. His silence only deepened
with the passing OF the days. and
when the case reached the attention
OF the prison officials they decided
10 send Spo Pee 20 the Government
Hospital for the Insane al Washing
ton. where all other insane prisoners
we're sent
Spo Pee did not know that he was
considered insane His transportation
TO the asylum more than 30 years ago
was simply another move In the game
OF torture. he believed All attempts
70 get him 10 answer questions AZ the
government hospital failed. Just as
the same. attempts had failed al De
'roit
The days heightened into weeks
nd the weeks into months and years.
but az the years went by. Spo Pee
became one Of the features Of the IN
stitution and the indian and HIS pc
"uliarity we're pointed ont 70 visitors
From time 20 time parties Of In.
ians came 10 the government hospi-
tai and many Of them tried 20 con-
verse with the Blaclfoot brave. But