Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1893 — A Gruesome Necklace. [ARTICLE]

A Gruesome Necklace.

gew York bun. 4 ’lt was "decidedly a grim ornanent," said the society young man, 'that I saw recently at the house of l well-known civil engineer whose 3&reer had some time been in the Efocky Mountains. It was a neckace composed of the finger nails of l young Sioux brave slain by a Ute warrior, who, with the scalp of his victim, had taken this trophy of his prowess. Strange to say, this necklace was intrinsically very handsome. The characteristic shapeliness of the Indian's arm and hand, ideally perfect even to the finger tips, was illustrated in this barbarous memento. The necklace of ten pieces was in color a vital brown, suggesting more than anything else a string of acorns. So removed in appearance was it from any forbidding suggestions of the savage deed it recorded that the genuinely gentle and refined woman to whom it was shown handlad it longingly, and begged of the owner that if he ever gave it away it should be to her.”