Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1921-11-24

when the second was leaving he motoned to
Chief Rain-n-the-Face to come They made their
escape soon after taps had blown and all lights
were then out at the post.
"Rain-in-the-Face started towards Standing
Rock keeping away from the trail and travelling
by night. When he reached his old camp the In
dams started him for the hills for fear the soldiers
would come and get him. small party accom-
panied him and they later became known as Rene
gade Sioux Their band increased until their num-
Der ran up in the thousands. The next time RAIN
in-the-Face met Captain Custer was June 70, 1876,
on the Little Big Horn river, in Clusters fight
Contrary to reports Chief "Reminiscences did not
hate General Custer, but liked him and his wife,
They often talked with him while he was in the
guard-house However, the chief did hate the
generals brother and sought vengeance against
him.
"At one time 1 asked the chief If he had seen
Captain Custer and he remarked that he had
looked for and had found him. The Indians told
me that the chief had mutilated the captain after
the big battle Tom Clusters heart was not cut
out as the reports have it. General Benteen stated
in a letter to me that he would make an affidavit
TO that effect General Benteen and Doctor Porter
were the two men who identified him. Captain
Clusters body was horribly mutilated."
"There was no blizzard the night Rain-in-the-
Face made his escape" Mr. Barry declares fur
Their "I hesitate to comment knowing Mr.. Shields
very well, but historians will grab such stuff as
this and pass 1t onas authentic.
Doane Robinson, secretary and superintendent
Of the department of history Of the State Of South
Dakota, writes to the Literary Digest:
"When Rain-in-the-Face lay dying at his home
on Grand river South Dakota, he was constantly
attended by Miss Mary G. Collins. the very notable
missionary, who was doctor OF medicine as well
as of souls He professed great remorse Tor the
sins Of his lfe particularly his sins of mendacity,
and confessed that 1t had been great satisfaction
I'm his sinful career TO invent Whoppers LUZ lhe
edi6cation of the whites.
az Tbere Is no record that Rain-in-the-Face
,,iued two men at Standing Rock agency In 1884
The offense which got him In bad with the mill
torv was the killing Of Holzinger, the veterina
rian and Balran, the sutler of General ID. 5. stan
Lewis expedition to the Yellowstone This occurred
on August a. 1853.
40 The next winter Rain-in-the-Face appeared
- standing Rock agency and boosted of the muir
dors be had committed. Word was sent to For
lincoln and Captain Tom Custer, brother o.
General George A., went down to Standing hoci
70 apprehend the oulprt He found him tradn,
IN the suffers store, and slipping up behind hin
threw n blanket over the Indians head and leap
,nc mon him soon had him securely bound ant
toor him n prisoner to Fort A. Lincoln Whateve
vengeance Rain-in-the-Face was harboring at thi
limo was against Captain Tom and not against tn
general.
.o ,nJn-the-Face escaped from the prison.
80, not Informed of his whereabouts during hi
sroedom: he may have taken himself to Wood
Mountain. If so, 1t not nearly three hur
dred miles as the crow flies
"a Rain-in. tAeFace took no part in the Battl
~ the Little Big Horn, on June 20, 1876. He wa
away during the entire day, but returned the
evening
,- ,ho hoSv Of General Custer was not nut
,o+ed nor was that of Captain Tom, whose heal
Rain in the-Face had vowed to eat IL he ate an
bodys heart that night it was not that Of elth'
Custer"