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Show FOR BURNING INDIANS. Interesting Murder Case on Trial at Mnsko'gee, I. T. Muskogee, L T., May 13. The Seminole Semi-nole burning and kidnapping cases, in which there are thirty defendants for kidnapping and afterward burning at the stake Lincoln McGelsley and Palmer Pal-mer Sampson, Seminole Indians, are on trial here, Horace Speed, ex-dlstrlct attorney for Oklahoma, opened the case for the government, he having beea especially retained to assist District Dis-trict Attorney Soper in the prosecution. Nelson M. Jones, ex-deputy United States marshal, and one of the defendants, defend-ants, was first pla'oed on trial. J. Warren Reed of Fort Smith, Ark., is his attorney. Eaoh of the thirty defendants de-fendants has asked for a severance of the cases. |