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Paleface Justice Tries to Save Indian Girl From ExecutionMIAMI, Fla., June 5 (INS—The fate of a Seminole Indian girl reportedly sentenced to death by tribal judges for bearing a white man’s child remained a secret today as “paleface” justice promised to intervene and save her—if legal statutes permitThose familiar with Seminole laws and customs/solemnly shook their heads when informed that sheriffs’ ,deputies might penetrate the Everglades swamplands and pull a rescue act. ’ .Dade County Sheriff Jimmy Sullivan, on orders from Gov. Millard Caldwell, made the rounds of Indian villages late yesterday and got nothing but a series of conflicting stories. /Some Indian observers pointed out that the Seminole nation is stillBy Milton Caniffioch\^EAH...IPSHE 1: otp \HADN'T WITTEOyA tub IIN, OLD 5 HAKEMTDM)QHT HOT HAVENA.ABEEN LOST/THATAKESEEM* UKB ASot7LONG TIME akmi AOO... Anor to mb ir , voestfTLtechnically at war with the United States and therefore not subject to government control or any of the white man's laws. For years, Indians who inhabit the Everglades have conducted their own trials and meted out justice as they saw fit.One attorney said the problem requires Department of Interior intervention. The tale of the 17-year-old Seminole girl’s “crime” and subsequent trial was first told by a Miami attorney, O. B. White, who sometimes represents the Indians in legal cases.He said she was brought before tribal chiefs during the traditional “green corn dance, an annual Seminole ceremony that lasts for several days. There, according to White, she was found guilty of breaking the tribe's laws by falling in love with an outsider and bearing him a child.Alone In EvergladesWhere the ritual was held and how the sentence'was to be carried out is not known. The attorney said she had probably been turned out to roam alone in the Everglades until death would overtake her. An Orlando minister. Rev. B. William Palmer, wired Miami police officials a message- to be delivered to the Seminole chief. The telegram read: “Rescue that Indian g^l from swamps or I’ll take away your privileges as a tribe and have you tried for murder.”The problem remained to get the Indians to admit the accusations against them—and to locate the reportedly condemned girL
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Southern Germany Stars and Stripes
Altdorf, Bavaria, DE
Thu, Jun 06, 1946
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