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Show INDIANS ACCUSED OP MURDER ARE CAPTURED HELENA, Mont., Dec. 1. U. S. Marshal Mar-shal A. W. Mcrri field and Dcputv U. S. District Attorney (,. S. Fan! returned this evening with Lazy Boy and Chief Coward, two Blackfoct Indians, accused of the murder of the wife of Lazy Boy. in a Thanksgiving carousal on the Blnclcfoot reservation. At Iho preliminary prelim-inary hearing held in Browning .yesterday, .yester-day, each Indian professed ignorance as to how tlie woman eume to her death. Sho was found in the rear of the cabin the morning after tlie celebration, with a bullet through her head. Tho Indians having notified tho agent that tho woman wo-man had died and were, preparing her for burial, when the agent intervened and ordered an investigation. Tho two Indians will be confined in the count v jail here lo await action by the federal grand jury. |