People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1897 — CONFESS THE MURDER [ARTICLE]

CONFESS THE MURDER

INDIAN BOYS TELL OF A TERRIBLE CRIME. Mystery as to the Death of the Fire Members of the Spicer Family at. XVinona, N. D., Is Cleared Up —Neigh—bors Talk of Lynching. Two Indian boys, Paul Holytrack and Philip Ireland, have confessed to theauthorities at Fort Yates, N. D., that they were at the Spicer place at the time the family of five was murdered,, and they have made a statement implicating themselves as well as the halfbreeds, Blackhawk and Caddotte. Theboys say the murder was planned some weeks before it was committed, and that Blackhawk was the leader. About $62 in money was found and divided by the four wretches after the completion of their bloody work. Public sentiment in Emmons county is at fever heat, and it is more than probable that all four implicated will be lynched.