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Show LAST CUSTER SURVIVOR CHARGED WITH KILLING Quarreled WUIi Fridiid OrcrMpertooiing: oTkld- j ncy Stcff; Fatal Fight Follows. NEW YORK, Dec. 10. Abraham McGee, who claims to be the sole w,hlte aur; vivor of Custer's cemmand In the fa mous battle of LI Hie Big Horn. Is under arrest here charged with homicide. Late Thursday night he got into an argument ar-gument with Frank Mitchell, a salesman, over the proper method for cooking a kidney kid-ney stew. A quarrel followed and the men attacked each other with kitchen knives, the fracas having occurred In Mitchell's flat. McQee, who lived on the Western frontier fron-tier forty years,' declares- Mitchell attacked at-tacked him first and by practicing an old trick- he felled his opponent, not, how ever, until he received a severe scalp wound. Mitchell did not appear badly off at the time, but he died twenty-four hours later. McGee wsa arrested meantime in a newspaper news-paper office, where he had gone to set the editor right about the fight. In telling the story of the battle MoOee declared he was detached by Custer Just before the massacre to carry a message to MaJ. Reno, who was to have made a Joint attack with Custer's troops on the Indians. McGee bears the ecars of many wounds which he claims to have received before he reached Reno's forces. Recently he eame here from Texas and has been canvassing can-vassing for a magazine. |