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Show whipped a revolver out of his pocket and shot his wife several times in the body. She died almost Instantly. Gully had a grudge agalust his mother-in-law. because she declined to live with him. After upbraiding the woman wom-an for refusing to accept his love. Gully riddled her body with bullets. Three other Indians whose names could not be Itemed fell victims to the unerring nltc of the Shoshone Gully's father-lo-Uw was also killed while the redman was on, the warpath. war-path. Several of the Indian children that were wounded by Gully are in a serious seri-ous condition, Hccordlng to reports that were received from Osceola last night. It Is believed that he will survive sur-vive As soon as ho learned of the uprising upris-ing among the Indians, .lamps Mart-ott, Mart-ott, acting coroner at Osceola, arrived nt the scene of the disturbance. Has- tily Impaneling a Jury, he began an I Invest igatlon of the causes leading up ; to the numerous murders. Up to a late hour today the coroner's Jury had I not completed Its labors. Gully Is supposed to have murdered his squaw at .out 1 1 years ago in the eastern part of the country- He was 1 bound over to the grand Jury, but ow-I ow-I lng to the Inability to secure sufficient suffici-ent evidence against the alleged murderer, mur-derer, tho charge was Ignored. He is well known among the older residents resi-dents of the city, having been employed employ-ed In doing, menial work around the different housoholds. Gully was the leader of a band of Indians that have frequently terrorized terror-ized the residents of the eastern part I of the country by their drunken esca-j esca-j pades They have managed to obtain a supply of whiskey In some accountable account-able way, and entrenched In the mountains near Osceola, have held many riotous celebrations, while under un-der the influence of liquor. Gully is charged with Instigating a long lists of depredatons committed by a band of Indians in the vicinity of Snake Valley. Gully is supposed to have headed a gang of drunken Indians that attempted to kill P M. Raker last June because he had dis charged one of his Indian emploves. With the assistance ol" a number of his ranch hands. Raker succeeded la putting the redskins to flight. INDIAN KILLS SIX; WOUNDS ONE Enraged because his mother in law-has law-has spurned his proposals of marriage and crazed with drink, Gully, chief of the Shoshones at Snake Valley, shot and killed six members of his own tribe during a drunken rampage at the Willow Patch near Osceola Monday, Mon-day, says tho Ely Dally, Mining Expositor Ex-positor of Tuesday evening;. Tho redskin red-skin murderer mortally wounded Henry Orlers, a white man, who at- i tempted to place him under arrest, and also Injured six Indian children that came within range of his bullets. While the uprising was in progress, Indian Joe, whose child had beeu killed kill-ed In cold bloo.i bv the Sboehone chlefUin. shot Gully 'in the abdomen from a place of concealment. As the redskin fell to the ground, Indian ! Joe stealthily crawled upon Gully and emptied the contents of an automatic revolver Into his worthless carcasR. Wishing to prevent further slaughter slaugh-ter among tho Indians, Henry Grlcrs, nn old man, who Is In the employ of M. V. Clay at the Willow Patch.' attempted at-tempted to Induce Gully to desist In his murderous attacks. As he was nlxt to pull tho trlpger on Gully, he received a dangerous wound near the heart. Criers was trying to place tho Indian oullaw under arrest, when no was shot. Criers Is not expected to live. Wishing tn discard the squaw with whom he had been living for 12 years Gully encountered hlr, Judith, his help male, yesterday, morning near the Willow Patch after having caroused during the night with ,i number of his friends. Without warning, ho |