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![handle is hein.amindian/spothwk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: [No. 48-SECOND SERIES5oo.]
INDIAN RIGHTS AssoCIATION,
1305 ARCH STREET,
PHILADELPHIA, PA., August, 1898.
A Review of the Spotted Hawk Case.
The public have heretofore been apprised of the trial and
conviction, in Judge C. H. Loud's Court, of the Seventh
Judicial District of Montana, of Spotted Hawk and Little
Whirlwind, members of the Northern Cheyenne Indian tribe.
In a brief review of the earlier history of this case it will be
well to recall that large herds of cattle and sheep graze over the
country adjoining the Northern Cheyenne Indian reservation,
and that a bitter feeling exists between the Stockmen and
the Indians, it being charged that the Indians have pillaged from
the herds adjacent to their reserve.
About April 28, 1897, a white sheep-herder, named Hoover,
was murdered while tending his flock near Tongue River, border-
ing on the reservation of the Cheyennes, an Indian named
Whirlwind, alias David Stanley, admitted having committed
the murder and prepared to meet his death according to the
customs of the tribe, but was prevented from doing so by the
prompt interference of the Acting Indian Agent, Capt. Geo. W.
H. Stouch, U. S. A., who desired no further bloodshed through
this peculiar form of justice.
The authorities of Custer County, Montana, exerted them-
selves to implicate others, with the result that the self-confessed
murderer, Stanley, under promise of reward, charged that two
brothers, Spotted Hawk and Little Whirlwind, participated
in the murder, and the arrest of the latter followed about
July 20, 1897 ; the further proceedings in the case all tend to
show an undue desire to secure other convictions; Mr. Hamlin
Garland, who was present at a gathering at the Cheyenne
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