The Cauadiau Half-Breed Revolt.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 2, 30 May 1885, Page 3

The Cauadiau Half-Breed Revolt.

AN INdIDBNT fIN: RlEli'^ LIFE.

>o > • a gg|{£^ G ops inHiTcruction \\\ North- ■ Ki jjj^esii pf C»na*i-i h«i« , Uronght a half * ' ,fopg6tTten man inic* promineiiqe again. •jV L-Rjel the phief actor, m the ;trag«dy j •■' * related betowhas been urreiUeid 1»y the ; 9 : " V°^' ■ Of h« ?»^y career - s i!" ■ ».'Wt«r m the Montreal 1 Witness i!-J: j^njtiy HBai<i:— Among t^e men' c ■ 'captured by th« rebel* durjng the Canadian insurrection of 1 5 years apo .-, ;,, waM one named Scott, He had been r. 'if- S9s^9 'f"^^ " en^ ct ' c on *^ c ' loyj*'' 8 * Twie t and li ad, it, is said, made a' tier ;il ) ,«onat e.nemy of Kiel. byignorainioiißly li ■• I ejecting him. from a tavern ion one si l which tlmlatter harl spoken °' of the Qiietin. Scott was '.^ ,° V^urb-'n^artiaUed by the' reliels, and' -.3 1 hi» 'execntion . wii» th us reported m ' 'the IjHpbei At the iiuje :— " The jbvatbv - ""'ioiicfcrnrflg ihis horrid i butchery is almost #Kf, revolting for publication ; but I' have ihe 1 ' follow ing details :-- _ The »s<ttfrf«rtattate young nian wa» .;f ' i »itliot by three executioners about 1 12 o'clock m the da>% an^ while ' he was writhing P4 the ground: a drunken "-, , half-breed ran up^ to him to Bnish him >•' >; with ! hiß.revolTer» The fellow was, jv^ffQ drunk however , that lie ip'ut his ' ' ptstdT tf> pooriSoWtfs liead oViliquetly. and the Viall, which struck below, the V; f;lteiaple?arid^i?ward.,o;ftl)e ear|, simply frrazedithe Jjcull and came out -near • flic eye., /the shot stunned th|e victim and be-wa« thiiurti into the coffin, und placed m ihe bastion' m charge of a j-n, half ired; serittoal. . The ni|»ht was tiiiterlv cold, am] while the jsehtineT 'waa paefn^ifcrounds at 111 o'clock A fad he^jd'ScQjit. cajliflgflutstipngly m '■ . Enwlixh. He .did' • *»o* understand w.h»t)^^.^drVo«t;Riel- > «i 4 9^ er ?j ;.' ~..\ weie summoned, and, ta Jhese Scott ; "■■•< said ■:^FVirGodViiake either finish me or tal^e me out of %hia t 'fof ; I am r , ;; freezi^gi"' This was fully 11 hoiu»r '"*'. ••' after the.PQpr fellow bad been thrust Xi iinto ihe coffin. Here the story breaks! ; ! dff asJl^W *J»s anything is /knovirni. " Riel and one othefr whose ; .with their victim, /and the j reports of three Pistol shots jyere heard, but on the %lo«ing day at nqon, the, ,:■ ■. mnrdered man was distinctly heard muttering incoherently.tio .h> coffi«V '; Still later, whian he w-g buried, 'Mm .",', p'r^tiuded tbi;6ttgh "it j ghastly l! breach m hisfprehiead, md she bore the,li>npaiiicKiiiie4ike appeaiwnce of: one but recently dead. This is a ' " horribie. story' to tell, but it is: firmly , '; j i : ii betievetlrby Olxe be«t infor liied nieff m" i^i i ,VHie l ßet^Jßtriedt,,;,'l]fc.is no waller that *„':.•: Kiel: 'i-efuattautPigiye flii : the body to be a ghastly witness against! KimsMf;i *'"" and hK'frHjo* brttcheitf. tijeglecied to»tateVth : aijhfi7||Vßib thijee sh,otß took ;>1 .effect in.the^^H iiinrtte manVbddy, >; ' i; "»nd'thit*neither' they nor the pistol by-^e drh^ken; Kalf v breed. were ' ) Jitali Man.y, I v. ihihfc my. w«f4» .not. . The mnrdtJr w Wt talk^ot'iti the »eWlomen|ti it ; entages '^l^o bave it referred to. Many balf-biwds pvofew to disbelieve the stateweot; that Scott f» «zecat«d | ttftU,"