 | Oliver Hampton Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 1858 - 654 pages
...gallows. A Seneca chief with his warriors, was posted near the brow of the hill. Sawyer and Bridge, Sen. ascended the scaffold together, were executed in quick...white men, for killing Indians, in the United States. [INDIANAPOL18 DAtLY JOUENAL. HUSBAND AND WIFE-SKETCH OF THE SPEECH OF HON. OLIVER H. SMITH. WE give... | |
 | Oliver Hampton Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 1858 - 658 pages
...gallows. A Seneca chief with his warriors, was posted near the brow of the hill. Sawyer and Bridge, Sen. ascended the scaffold together, were executed in quick...white men, for killing Indians, in the United States. [INDIANAPOLIS DAILY JOURNAL HUSBAND AND WIFE-SKETCH OF THE SPEECH OF HON. OLIVER H. SMITH. WE give... | |
 | De Witt Clinton Goodrich, Charles Richard Tuttle - Indiana - 1875 - 748 pages
...youthful mind. Reason bad partially left her throne and he stood wildly looking at the crowd, appa rently unconscious of his position. The last minute had come,...white men, for killing Indians, in the United States. Anderson, the county seat of Madison county, is located on the south bank of White river. It is named... | |
 | De Witt C. Goodrich, Charles Richard Tuttle - Indiana - 1875 - 740 pages
...the crowd, appa rently unconscious of his position. The last minute had come, when James Brown Bay, the Governor of the State, announced to the immense...white men, for killing Indians, in the United States. Anderson, the county seat of Madison county, is located on the south bank of White river. It is named... | |
 | De Witt C. Goodrich, Charles Richard Tuttle - Indiana - 1875 - 756 pages
...the crowd, appa rently unconscious of his position. The last minute had come, when James Brown Kay, the Governor of the State, announced to the immense...white men, for killing Indians, in the United States. Anderson, the county seat of Madison county, is located on the south bank of White river. It is named... | |
 | John La Rue Forkner, Byron H. Dyson - Madison County (Ind.) - 1897 - 1062 pages
...The rope was adjusted. He threw his •eyes around upon the audience and then down upon the coffms, where lay exposed the bodies of his father and uncle....white men, for killing Indians, in the United States." The Hon. Charles H. Test, in a conversation with one of the authors of this book in 1872, while he... | |
 | Augustus Finch Shirts - Frontier and pioneer life - 1901 - 386 pages
...Kay, Governor of the State, announced to the immense assemblage that the convict was pardoned. Perhaps never before did an audience more heartily respond,...had been deferred to the last moment. Thus ended the first trials in the United States where convictions for murder were had and followed by the execution... | |
 | William Monroe Cockrum - History - 1907 - 650 pages
...heartily respond, while there was a universal regret that the executive authority had been deferred until the last moment. Thus ended the only trials where convictions of murder were followed by the execution of white men for killing Indians, in the United States up to that period.... | |
 | Seymour Dunbar - Frontier and pioneer life - 1915 - 456 pages
...warriors, stood on a hill that commanded a view of the gallows. 'We are satisfied,' the Chief said. Thus ended the only trials where convictions of murder...execution of white men, for killing Indians in the United States."i Two other incidents contained in the printed annals of the time — one dealing with a tavern... | |
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He threw his eyes around upon the audience, and then down upon the coffins, where lay exposed the bodies of his father and uncle. From that moment, his wild gaze too clearly showed that the scene had been too much for his youthful mind. Reason had partially... 