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A REVOLTING CRIME.Man Murdered, Skinned and HtjiigOn a Wire Fence.The foil owing -horrible crime is related by the Claremoce Messenger of last Saturday : VViley Little-head hud VViiiie LitUehead,' fuli-blood Eucheejntliaus and brothers;are awaiting a hearing before Commissioner Jennings on the charge of murder committed at Mounds Christmas. The reported detail^’ of the crime make it the most atrocious ever committed by anybody tout a cannibal. The two Little-keads. together with a number of others of the tribe wert enjoying a drunken carouse, when, for no cause as yet apparent, th# Little* ^ead boys decided that, oue Candy SqLyLre should be kilted. They immediately1 started in to execute the thought and with clubs beat their victim to death by inches, Affcel? life was extinct the two fiends, so it is stated, absolutely skinned him. as they would a deer and biing thfe body on a wire fence;Other members of the tribe captured the murderers and took them to Mounds, where they wfcre given into the custody of Deputy Fought’ of Sapulpa,-, who took them to piaremore Saturday evening.
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Checotah Enquirer
Checotah, Oklahoma, US
Fri, Jan 03, 1902
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