Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-11-16
INDIAN REvERTS TO
GAVE MAN AND II
COSTS five YEARS
KickapoO, Graduate of Schools,
Abducted Two White
Girls.

Topeka. Kan, Nov. 15.--A rever-
sion to the cave man days of his an
cestors will cost Bobby Whitewater,
an Indian. five years time in the
Kansas penitentiary. Whitewate-'
is a full-blooded Kickapoo Indian, a
graduate of one of the best Indian
schools and until late last summer
was regarded as one of the best ana
most earnest of the Indians of the
Kickapood reservation in Brown
county. The Indians upon this reser-
walton have been regarded as entire
ly civilized for many years. Ihey
work industriously and own some OF
the finest farms in the state, Whlca
they till themselves. The klckapoos
are rich in their own right and BY
reason of their own idustry, in addi-
ton to which they have received
large grants from the government.
There are only few hundred Kick
apoos still in Kansas.
Bobby Whitewater married an In
dian girl and lived on the reserva-
ton. He is the father of three emil
dren. He was an almost perfect
type Of Indian manhood, tall, straight
and with the regular features OF the
purest type of Indian brave. Before
he attended Indian school he had at
tended the government and puoliS
schcolss on or near the reservation:
He knew q considerable number OF
white girls and was quite popular So
cially with the white people gener-
ally of the neighborhood.
Two White Girls Disappear.
Late in August the entire country
side about the reservation was set
aehast by the sudden disappearance
of two young white girls. They were
out walking together along a country
road and failed to return to their
homes. The white people were arous-
ed but did not suspect the Indians
aid the Indians joined in the hunt
for the two girls. No one noticed
that Bobby Whitewater had disap-
peared at the same time. This was
not noticeable, as Whitewater had of
en- been away for few days on bus
mess and his absence from the reser-
walton created no comment.
For five days the search was kept
up throughout the neighborhood, tor
miles on each side of the reservation
and in the towns for so or go miles
around. 1t was at first supposed that
the girls had been picked up by
friends and taken for ride and pos
sibly motor trouble had prevented
their return.
On the fifth day following their
disappearance some boys out hunt
ing came upon the two girls and Bob
by Whitewater, hidden in the woods
on the reservation. They were con-
siderable distance from any roads, i'll
the middle of a dense forest.
They were living as did the In
dams of the olden days. The days
and nights were war mand pleasant
SO clothing was hardly necessity.
There was game and birds in the
woods and the cunning of the Indian
in the hunt came back to him in pro-
viding plenty of food for the two
girls and himself.
The two girls protested against
returning to civilization, preferring
to stay with their cave man in the
woods during those nice August days
and nights. But the farmers and In
dams who were told where the three
could be found, were insistent upon
the girls returning to their homes
and they took Whitewater to Jail.
While tn eIndian had ample funds in
his own right and could easily have
obtained bond to obtain his release,
he remained in Jail because of the
fear that he might be the victim of
mob violence.
When the case against Whitewater
was called in the District Court of
Brown county. Judge w. I. Stuart,
one of the oldest Judge on the Kan
sas bench, accepted the plea of gull
ty of Whitewater to being a cave man
and of having violated Kansas sta
tute. The Indian offered no extenu-
ating circumstances. He said that he
had met the girls while they were
walking and had just carried them
off with him to the woods.
Judge Stuart read only short lee
ture to the young man, pointing out
that civilized peoples did not sane
tion the reversion to cave man activl-
ties. 1t was developed that at least
one of the girls had become quite in.
fatuated with the Indian because of
his good looks and that she had TAX
en- clandestine motor rides with him
and she had induced a chum to take
rides with Whitewater