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lf».arythemforsbhoafirf alatjhfcwsheoded)C-nder■e-n,rnlelee,dtnr,ichSyriV313II, Horrible-Cr.'A Tie first exccu.. territories took place SWn%)Fort Saskatchewan, a outpost, the victim helna Crec Indian, who wasder and r-annHmHanu U-._ -,devoured his family* consisting (1 1U9 mother, wile and seven children. | police overtook Him in the valley JOth. creek, fifty miles,jiorth_Q Saskatchewan •aalie was fleeing t*fche Athabasca territory. They carrlctHiim to the fort nnd sent for Sheriff Richardson. On being charged with the crime he pleaded guilty and offered to conduct the police to the remains. He lrnd camped in a hole or cave at the base of the mountains, and the bones of his victims lay scattered about the floor. They had been boiled. Hooking his finger in the eye of one of the skulls, he picked it up and said in the most nonchalant manner: “.This is my mother!” and ho on with the other skulls, nine in all. He said whisky had demoralized him and jnade him feel like a wolf. Ho killed them all one night while they were asleep, and buried the bodies in the enow, cutting thorn up and boiling them as he needed them. Ho was forthwith sentenced to death, and his request to be shot instead of hanged was refused. The Indians throughout the district were invited to give their view on the case, and they unanimously approved of the sentence. The murderer and cannibal Tuct-hls deat 11 w ith -atoieal-ind i ffe ronefiThe Indians, who never before saw or heard of death by hanging, were anxious to know if it was a species of torture, and Swift Runner said if it would suit the police he would kill himself witu a tomahawk and save the hairg-man further trouble. It was bitter cold —forty below zero. At 9 a. m. the hangman, a half-breed, appeared with a coil of rope, but he tremb led s that the Indians drove him off and bund the prisoner themselves. Then they stood ftim up against the scaffold posts and danced the death dance, while_ Swift Runner laughed and appeared to look upon the whole business as a good joke. At 9:30 a. m. he ' demanded more food, and after eating a pound ot pemmican mounted the gallows and submitted himself to the executioner, whohad rt?covered~hi3.iJier.Y.e. Qua of the.police officers attempted im read a prayer, but his voice was drowned by the jeers and shouts of the Indians, and Sheriff Richardson gave the hangman the signal. The trap fell and Swift Runner went down with fearful force, there being a drop of five feet. He died without a struggle. The body was cut down in an hour and buried in the snow out-side the fort. In the afternoon the.-In=-■diamlmld~a^grand^fis.U_ xejoieingaLbeing vrcll ria of a most aceomjxlislied villain
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Absecon South Jersey Republican
Absecon, New Jersey, US
Sat, Jan 31, 1880
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