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HAVE UNWRITTEN LAWTama Indians Believe in An Eye for An Eye Law.Tama, April 25.—No particular new developments have occurred since the finding of the coroner’s jury that Nellie, the Indian belle, was murdered by George Soldier, her former husband. From a personal interview wich the more intelligent of the Indians it is believed that the finding by the coroner’s jury may be right but. is involved in doubt, and if Soldier is guilty others are implicated with him. It is thegeneral belief that the murder of this woman is in some manner connected with the murder of John Sepo, hisbrother, some two years ago. The Indians have but. little faith in the punishment or mode of procedure of the white man's court, but it is an old es-ij tablished and unwritten law among | 3 themselves that retribution must be meted out for any wrong committed. The old law of an eye for an eve,” etc., is inflexibly observed by them. And it may be relied upon (hat if the guilty parry it not punished by action of the federal court in this case that it will be in some manner In the tribe. While this woman was a nieinbel* of the family of the present chief, Poosh-E-Too-Nelc, who is held in disfavor by certain factions on the reservation, tins dislike would not be of such a character as to justify I11 their opinion a murder. It is a known fact, however, that the father of George Soldier has been one of the leaders in the opposition to the present chief.It is feared by those interested that these internal feuds will ultimately result disastrously to the general harmony that formerly pervaded the camp,
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Waterloo Times Tribune
Waterloo, Iowa, US
Tue, Apr 25, 1905
Page 6
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