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INDIAN TAKES DEA TH RATHER THAN PRISONRESimeon George, Who Wounded Officer When Arrested for $4 Board Bill, Carries Out Threat of Suicide. Body Found in Woods.FrieCOft“ipoiandoes.zntcnith)r.’SS'a-ut;a-*.n-naioni ~ -M-css3Ut:ntiCTpock,nl.i;n-•wltU-16.00jnford . PlltCitTADCOGpCQto iSdWith ft bullet holts in the right temple, the body of Simeon George, the Indian who one week ago Salu witty night shot Under Sltorirr Michael Mooney of Hamilton. Madison county, sit the Onondaga Indian Reservation. , was found at ■! o'clock last night. It was in the woods about ft mile from his residence, near which the shooting of the under sheriff took piece.Thu Indian had kept his word. When fie fled offer shooting Mnonoy ho hail shouted to his wife that she would never see liitn alive again.The body was found by a. searching party of live young Onondaga Indians. They were Daniel Gcorfc, .Andrew Pierce. Dennis Jacobs. Tiolicm Gcorgo and John Homer,The parly was about to cease its efforts, which on the part of all searchers had been unavailing for a weak, when the body was found. The live had tramped a mile and a. halt along ;i narrow trail through the woods nncl found the body more than 100 feet off the trail, on what is known as Indian hill.Sits Down. to Pire Shot.Coroner A. M. Wilier was ncUl'.ed and filar led a: one-:: for the place. lie drove to the reservation and walked through the. woods, accompanied by a dozen Indians. to the plate wlu-ro tl;e dead Indian lay.The position of the body indicated that George laid, at a point near the middle of the wood?, made Ids way through shrubs and saplings, sat down on a hillside and with tl’.o revolver with which he had fired three bullets at Mooney, two of them taking effect, had shot hansel f.lie was on his hack and hie foot wore partly under a log. The revolver was near his right hand and was slightly rusted by a week's exposure to the rains.By probing the wound Coroner Wilier found that the bullet had passed to theopposite ride of the Indian'a brnin. Death had, according to appearances, been instantaneous. There had bean a slight hemorrhage from the nose, hut scarcely any blood was found about, the wound itselfUpon examining Uio revolver Coroner Wilier found that it was a 112-caliber, iive-chanibcr weapon. One chamber was empty, two contained empty shells and two loaded cartridges. This showed that George must have reloaded the revolver after he had iired the three shots at the sheriff.Undertaker A. O. Schumacher'was notified ofi.V.e finding of the body and with the perWlsslon ol' the Coroner brought tlio (hotly to his undertaking rooms in the city. Gelling the body out of the woads was found difficult. There were twelve Indians on the scone when the body was found. When it bud been placed on a stretcher and Coroner Wilier called or. some of the Indians to assist in carrying it they had disappeared, hut were called hack and induced to help.Work: Hard to Recover Body..' From this place to the trail £)te way was tip a steep hill, and the body had to he lifted about two feet at a tune for ICO feet. The trail to the main road, a mile away, is a narrow path through which1the Indiana haul lumhor during t{ie winter months. Thisi was slippery and muddy.It was S.IS o'clock when the small party Started for the reservation and it was nearly U o'clock when It arrived at the nearest farm house, the residence of Mrs, Martha Brown. Hero had assembled 200 Indians. Among them worn the dead man’s wife, who is about to bocomo a mother, with his aunt and several cousins.The relatives were crying. One of the Indians said that George's mother, Mrs. Sally George, was almost insane because of tl’.o disappearance of her son and the news of the finding of the body.Ills father. George George, was killed, three years ago at his reservation home, having broken his neck by failing from a tree. Dr. ‘Wilier, now coroner, was driving by the house when tlio accident occurred.It was with tlio consent of the wife nr-d aunt that the body cl' George was brought to the city. It wJU be taker, to the residence of his mother this afternoon.All Over $4 BoardbilL Under Sheriff Mooney came to Syracuse one week ago Saturday afternoon with a warrant for the arrest of George or. a charge of defrauding a hotel keeper at MotTlsvHle cut of 51 for board. Ho went to the reservation on a Rockwell Springs car, and after placing the Indian under arrest started back to the city witli him. Ho had gone only a few feet from the house when George declared that he would not bo taken alive, and drawing a revolver from his lap pocket shot the officer in Lke Chest and in Lite back. Ho fired once alter the officer fell and ll.cn started off through tiie woods, tolling his wife tliat lie would commit euicide.That was the last seen of him alive. Mr. Mooney walked tUreo-ituarlers of u mile to tlio residence of a Mr. Putt Ison, who brought him to the Rockwell Springs car in a buggy. 1-Ie came on the car to the corner of South Safina and Onondaga streets, where St. Josephs Hospital ambulance met him and took hint to tho hospital.X-ray pictures wern taken at the hospital whlo!i showed the location of tiie bullets. Thus far it has not been round necessary to remove, the bullets, and at the hospital last night if was sakl that Mr. Mooney would recover.Within a few.!tours after the shooting of th© Madison county under sheriff Onondaga. county officials and the SyracuseTii Wiil man frier chat: nso, men tion Th lust it d of ?Ii in an that ■”3 hav mer con-J M sen at fore sire a\app as den II vis: it ily.Taitherepthe)■anroioalrerMenghistincaofSkwlponomith.heapolice were at the reservation in search xuof the fugitive, The search was continued ail tho week.Many hours were spent by tiie officers in ihe woods in which the body was found.Born on the Reservation.Mr. George was I!;! years old and was born on the reservation. lie was a fjull-btootled Indian. Ho,was married about three years ago and besides his wife, is survived by Ids mother and on© brother. Gilmore George, IS years old. who is = student at the Carlisle Indian School at Carlisle, Pa.After his return from the reservation last night, Coroner Wilier said tliat ho believed George had coin milted suicide the night he shot Undersherlff Maor.cy.
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Syracuse Post Standard
Syracuse, New York, US
Mon, Apr 29, 1907
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