65 code, liable to be put to death, whether guilty of the murder or not. She was taken back while Gist was at the town, and he relates in his journal that after night a white woman captive who had deserted, was put to death in this manner: She was set free and ran off some distance, followed by three Indian warriors, who, overtaking her. struck her on the side of the head with their tomahawks. and otherwise beat and mutilated the body after life was extinct, then left it lying on the ground. Andrew Burney, a blacksmith at ‘The White Woman’s Town,’ obtained and buried the body. Mary Harris insisted that the mew comer’ killed her husband with his own hatchet, in revenge for being brought into captivity, while she. as tradition givesit. alleged that Mary did the wicked workout of jealousy, and intended dispatching her also, but she was defeated in her project by the Hight of mew comer.’ Be that as it may. Eagle Feather was sent to the spirit-land for introducing polygamy among white ladies in the valley, and as to the mew comer, ’ the town to which she fled was thence forward advancing. promt of notice and standing ereett
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