DIME NOVELS LED THEM TO DEATH.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9142, 25 August 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

DIME NOVELS LED THEM TO DEATH.

THREE BOYS KILLED BY ENRAGED

INDIANS IN THE TERRITORY. Wichita, Kan., July 7. — Deputy Sheriff Metcalf brings news of the death of three Springfield (III.) boys, recently murdered in Indian Territory. The boys' names were John Garwood, Hal Halliday, and Edward Finley, the oldest not being over nineteen years of age. About two months ago they were first seen, when they said they had just come from Springfield. From their conversation it was supposed that they had been reading yellow-covered literature and had come West to fight Indians. They were fully equipped with guns, knives, ammunition, and a little money. While in the Seminole country their money was taken from them, and they accused an old Indian named Seminole Pete. The morning after the accusation old Pete was found dead in his cabin and the three young rangers gone. They were immediately suspected of the murder and followed to their hiding-place, on the Redwood. The Indians set fire to some rubbish, and, as the boys came from their dug out, they were shot. Their bodies were taken to the woods and burned. A party of white men the next day buried the remains. An effort is now being made to find the relatives of the deceased boys.