Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1901 — Sioux Cheats the Gallows. [ARTICLE]

Sioux Cheats the Gallows.

A mixed-blood Sioux Indian. Louis Cottier, was killed at his home on Spring Creek, Pine Ridge Indian reservation, by Billy Day, a full-blooded Sioux, recently, and Tuesday to escape punishment Day killed himself. Cottier was alone when Day, accompanied by his wife, drove up to the house. Day and his wife soon afterward rode hurriedly away, and half an hour later Cottier was found with a bullet hole In his head and a wound in his breast. Indian policemen sent out by Indian Agent Brennan soon brought Day to bay, surrounding his place of refuge. When the officers entered the place they discovered the fugitive’s lifeless body.