Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1905 — Educated Indian Is Accused. [ARTICLE]

Educated Indian Is Accused.

Appleton. Wis., Oct. 27. Elias Cornelius, an Oneida Indian who for three years was a student at the Educational Home, Philadelphia, is being held in jail here charged with responsibility for the expected death of Katie John, an Indian girl, who after a dance on Oct. 5 was found unconscious on the roadside, terribly beaten and without a stitch of clothing. Gerrit Johnson and Wilson Skyler, Indians, are also wanted on the same charge.