The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-04-03
z INDIANS, CHILD,
HACKED TO DEATH
William Taylor Hanks, Gradu.
ate of Carlisle, COnfesses
Guilt of Crimes
WIFE ONE OF VICTIMS
Planned to Shoot Any One
Who Attempted to Arrest
Him-Married 4 Times

Milaca, Mimi, March 81 .-Ihree
Indians, including an infant, were
hacked and dubbed to death by a
39-year- old Indian on the Mile Laos
reservation, So miles north OF Mil
laca, Sunday night.
The confessed murdered, grad
uate of Carlisle Institution, an In
dian institution, is William Taylor
Hanks. He is held in the Mile
Laos county Jail here while county
officials and department of justice
agents, called in from st. Paul, IN
vestigate.
The dead are:
Jennie Hanks, 26-year-old wife OF
the slayer.
Alvin Hass, 14-month-old son OF
the murdered woman and stepson
of Hanks.
An aged Indian known as "Shau-
gabee," decribed as being nearly
100 years old, grandfather of Jen-
ME Hanks.
Hanks, in signed confession in
the hands of D. w. Luchsinger
Mile Laos county sheriff, and Olin
c. Myron, county attorney, said he
killed his wife because she was
lawfully mean" The killing of the
aged Indian followed attempts OF
"Shaugabee" to kill him, Hanks
said. No reason was given for Kill
ing the child.
After the murders, Hanks loaded
his shotgun and planned to kill Of
ficers who came to arrest, he ad,
mitted to the sheriff. Removal OF
the shotgun by another Indian from
a tree near the home where Hanks
was hiding thwarted his plans.
When officers entered the home
of John Carlos, another Indain on
the reservation, Hanks was lying
on the bed. He had been drinking
but did not appear to be intoxicat'
ed. He surrendered without resist,
ence. Shortly before his arrest
Hanks had gone to the tree near
where he left his shotgun to take it
into the house, but he found II
gone. After a futile search for it
he returned to the house.
The slayer used an ak with two
cutting edges to kill his wife and
the aged Indian and then dubbed
the infant to death with small
hammer.
"She was awfully mean to me-
Hanks told the sheriff.
Officers said the slain woman
was Hanks fourth wife. Hanks
admitted he had been drinking
shortly before the killing. He said
his wife quarreled with him after
he carried water for her. Being
incensed, his confession says, he
picked up an ak and struck her or
the forehead. He followed with two
more swings, on the head and or
the neck.
At this point, the aged Indian
rose from a char in which he hac
been sitting and threatened to kill
him with a knife, Hanks said. An
other swing of the ak caught the
aged man above the nose. Wher
the aged Indian fell to the floor, the
confession says, he struck hin
twice, on the head and on the right
hip.
Satisfied that his victims were
dead, Hanks said he decided to Kill
the infant. He picked up a small
hammer and struck the child, who
had been lying on a bed.
81 figured l would kill anybod!
| who tried to arreSt mo" Hanks tOl(
Sheriff Lucksinger, $50 loaded m!
shotgun and took it with me to thu
home of John Carlo. I placed i
against tree, but some one must
have removed it without my knowl
edge. When I couldn't find it. after
searching around, went back int
the house."