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h»‘ might hlt; *• or hear tnere, rneyouthful Indian who wai to undergo ordeal* and receive honors that day was u Sioux known as Hain-in-the-FaceTo test the youth's endurance, his fellow savages put him to various forms of torture, one detail being to suspend him from the top of a polo by skewers stuck through the mus-lt;l*s of bIk shoulders. Then he was railed upon to tell of any special deed of prowess he had performed. Hain-in-the-Face, in answer to thisrequest, told of meeting two white m*n In thlt;* mountains. He said theyhad disregarded his “peace sign.”and had fired on him Whereat he had followed them for days, and at last had killed and scalped them while they were asleep.Tom Custer was filled with Indignation at fhe tale. He galloped to the nearest fort and, disregarding his alleged promise, repeated to the military authorities there the confession he had heard. A companyof cavalry was nt once sent to capture Hain-in-the-Face.The Indian was seized, dragged to the fort and locked up there, pending his trial for murder. The htit in which he was Imprisoned was unheated and half full of drifted snow. Hain-in-the-Face broke out, stole a horse nnd galloped for the distant mountains, Only once did he pause In his flight. That waswhen he chanced to meet a man who was on his way to the fort. To this traveller the Indian entrusteda message.“Tell Tom Custer that some day I will cut his heart out'Th* reservations and other Indianhaunts were no longer safe refugees for the fugitive. So he fled to the mountain camp of a band of Sioux murderers, horne thieves and other outlaws, whose “medicine man was the Infamous Sitting Hull.At once Hain-in-the-Face became a leader In this savage horde. Ho was the type of man w-ho would have been a leader anywhere. What Sitting Hull accomplished by craft this new chieftain accomplished by force, lie helped weld together a gang of cutthroats Into a falrlv effectiveWfighting machine, and to fan to fresh fury their hatred for the white man. Rain-ln-the-Face was makingready to fulfill his threat against Tom Custer and revenge himself on the white race in general Soon, under his urging And that of Sitting Hull t w horn he despised as a coward) the band was ready for the warpath. And the war began.^ • v * * • * ii. i i I t ri lt;i lt;i v lt;i ; - r~ i iagainst the Indians. They retreated toward the Canadian border. And, on Canadian soli, Hain-in-the-Face remained in comfort until it was safe for him to return to tlie UnitedStates.22HeadquarteWe Are Aj
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Canton Daily News
Canton, Ohio, US
Fri, Apr 24, 1914
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