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stranger pulled his old knife out and started sharpening it on his shoe. Rogers saw what the man intended to do. So he told him, why don’t he shoot the Indian?“He answered abruptly that he would not. Finally thinking the knife sharp enough he commenced the operation.”“Shut you eyes, reader! You will not want to witness what I then saw,” Rogers writes. “He tried to cut the Indian to the heart, but could not. Cutting through the skin he held the knife in his hand striking the handle with his ri.ght hand plunging it to the Indians heart.”“Never shall I forget that scene, the Indian digging his heels in the ground, with an unearthly yell, raising his body entirely from the ground and then fell still in death. I could not help saying to the stranger,| “You are a cruel man.”“Answering me in perfect coolness he said, “Perhaps I am but I must scalp the Indian.” — That was an operation that I had never seen before and I hope never to see again. His knife was dull and it took him some time to cut the skin around the head. Then he turned the Indian over and getting his fingers under the spots he cut, he pulled it off, telling me at the same tiny?, he scalped several Indians that day for which he would get $2 a piece.”When they were leaving this spot, the stranger told Rogers! “Young man, I have something to tell you. A little bit ago you said I w'as a cruel man. Did you ever leave your wife and children at home and go to get something to eat, and when returning to find your wife and children killed?”With tears in his eyes, the stranger said goodby and left.His name was Greyland. The Indians had killed his family not far from the spot where he knifed this Indian.
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Yoakum Herald Times
Yoakum, Texas, US
Tue, Jul 26, 1960
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