Salt Lake Tribune | 1902-04-28 | Page 7 | Slain by Mad Indian

SLAIN BY MAD INDIAN Red Man Shot Dead by Another Who Was Demented Redding April 2Modoc j county has been the scene of many Indian uprisings and killing but novor before has the murder of an Indian been commlllcd under un-der such pecullur circumstances utf Him Just reported News reached Redding today to-day of the murder of an Intllnn named Fox The affair occurred at Likely a uinnll hamlet near Alturus In an old thalchcdroof tepee an old Indian Jay ravine with n rover Fox had been sent for nn Indian medicine man In an adjoining tribe He returned about 7 oclock with the doctor As ho entered tho sick Indians tOp O tho Invalid watt silting up In his blankets ravine In Ll delirium and ns Fox approached ap-proached the place where he sat the flick man with a wild whoop drew a revolver from beneath his blankets and deliberately shot Fox Tho latter expired I ex-pired In a fen moments ond within twelve hours the sick Indian followed his victim to the happy hunting grounds I