TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1860-1916
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were six-shooter pistols. The Indians had blankets of different colors and hats, government hats. Two of them had on quilts that belonged to me they had robb~d my camp before they got to the Spring. There were some Spencer cartridge hulls marked H on the end found where the Indians shot at us on the hill. his Mortimer X Stevens mark Sworn to and subscribed before me this 14th day of SeptP.mber 1873. Moses Wiley J . P. S. W. McKibbins sworn says: We went out to the place where the fight was, and got there about moonrise and could not find the bodies, This morning we made another hunt and the bodies were found by some soldiers, about twenty rods below where Steve thought they were.. The bodies appeared like they had been sitting behind a couple of black jack trees in a small ravine. The boy was laying on his back his arm sticking up his hand had been cut off, and scalped. The old man was laying on his face he had crawled under a little black jack and appeared like he was hiding, his hands were under him. Ht: was scalr~d, and h:s right side cut open, his liver was exposed and his entrails were torn same The little boy was laying with his head near the old man's feet, looked like they had been trying to hide after they had been wounded they were in a small ravine about deep enough to hide their bodies. There was an arrow sticking in the old man's back, sticking straight up, like it had been shot in him while he was standing up, or laying down and by someone stand- ing over him. It made a gash in his back like it had a spike on the end, but the spike pulled off when the arrow was taken out. Some of the boys picked up a Spencer cartridge hull with the Jetter H on the end of it. It was found on the hill about three rods from where the bodies were lying. I saw nine or ten men yesterday, think they were Indians. It was about seven or eight miles from here on the Lost Valley Road When I first saw them they were in a ravine about a mile from me, could only see thPir headi:;, thought at first they were turkies and started toward them, and saw they were men. looked like Indians, had no hats on, and had light colored blan- kets, they started for me, and I turned and run from them, they
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