Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1885 — POUNDMAKER A CONVICT. [ARTICLE]

POUNDMAKER A CONVICT.

He Is Found Guilty of Making War Against tlie Queen and Sentenced to Three Years in Frison. [Winnipeg (Man.) special.] Poundmaker, Chief of the Indians who fought Col. Otter’s flying column at Cut-Ivnife Creek, and afterward attacked and captured a supply-train of tliirty-one wagons in the Eagle Hills, was convicted at Regina of making war against the queen and sentenced to three years in the Penitentiary. The Chief, when he heard the sentence, asked that he be hanged right away rather than bo imprisoned. Before sentence was passed on him he said: “I was good all summer. People told lies. I saved a lot of bloodshed. I can’t understand how it is that after saving so many lives lam brought here. I could have been on the prairies still if I would.” Then waving his hand majestically he said, with a smile: “I am a man. Do as you like. lam in your power. I gave myself up. You did not cutoh me.”