Marble Hill press., 1921-11-24

,gf.f. th. s.~n.F wg. leaving na mnuunsd 70
Chl.f Rain.ln.ih,- Fac, 90 come They mad" heir
e-cnp. snou afnr tap. had blown and all lights
wrrr then out 10 u" post
"Ralntn-tAr Face started towards Smnding
EOrk keeping away frpm the trail and travelling
ty night When BE- reached biz nI4 camp the In
tlans started n. fHr the hills fu- fear 30" soldiers
would come and get hlm A small party accom-
panied him arI they later became hguvn ~ Rene
gpae sioux Their band lurr,a,.l until their mum
Ter ru up IN the thousand. The next 'Im" RAIN
lB The. Fr.s met Captain Custer Nas june - 1875,
on the Little BE Horn T.tsr, lG clusters hEhL
Contrary fa reports Chlct Ra-nan 'heFn'' dll NOT
hate GENERAL custer. hu' liked h.m and h.s wife
They often talked with him Will" he Va~ ia th'
quart house However the chief fIi hate the
generals brother and sought Vengeance against
HIN
a, one time | aSkei the chief II b" had seen
Captain Custer and he remarked thn' hr had
looked pr and had found him The Indians TOD
rac hat ,he uhef had mut'lutei the captain after
the rig battle Tom Clusters heart was not cut
out ns the reports have Il General keu'""u stated
in a letter Co me that he would make an affidavit
IN that elect General Rrufe,u aud Doctor Porter
were n. tao men who ,irnth"d him. Captain
clusters hp.y was horribly mutiA'cd'
There vus no blizzard thr night Raintnthe
Vac. mad, Ms escape Mr. Barry declares fur
thar 4 hesitate To comment, knowing Mr.. Shields
very well hut historians will grab such stun as
this and pass II on as authentic
pugpc Robinson secretary and superintendent
or the department OF history " the State ot south
Dakota. writes to the Literary Digest
-yyhen Ralnln-the-Face lay dying at his home
IN GRIND river, South Dakota, lie was constantly
attended by Miss Mary {. Collins the very notable
missionary, aho doctor Of medicine as well
"a NJ souls lie profcs>ed great remorse for the
sins ~ hts Ne particularly his sins Of mendac'ty,
and confessed that It had been great satisfaction
IN hi. slnfa, career 10 invent whoppers for ths
aanraflou OF the whites
- Thcrc Is no record that Rain.inthe Fnce
Li,,ad two men at Standing Rock agency in 1874
Tn. oTeuse which got him in bad with the mili-
,orv uaS the killing Of Hozinger the veterina'
rIan and Rallran. the sutler of General D. : stan
I.vs eypedltlon TO the Yellowstone. This occurred
on August !, 1878.
.o The next winter RanIn-theFace appeared
.t Standing Rock agency and boasted OF the mur>
lars he had committed. Word was sent to Fort
A Lincoln and Captain Tom Custer, brother Ut
n.no-al George A., went down to Standing Rock
70 apprehend the culprit He found him trading
in the suffers store and slipping up behind him
,,ra, a blanket over the Indians head and leap
too r,o, him soon had him securely hound and
,,ok him prisoner to Fort A. Lincoln. whatever
vengeance Rain-in-theFace was harbortnS st this
TINA WAS against Captain Tom and not against the
general
80 Rsin.n theFace escaped from the prison.
.r, No, informed Of his whereabouts during hia
freedom; he may have taken himself to Woody
Maintain. 10. 1t was not nearly three hun
,re, miles as the crow flies
~. Ratu.,n-,heFace took no part In the Battle
Of the Little Big Horn. on June % 1873 He WA
dax htYf rafu pat a
evening
.n The body Of General Custer was not mutt
lated nor was that of Captain Tom. whose hear
paiptp.thcrace had vowed to eat II he ate any
hody's heart that night 1t was not that Of either
Custer"