Show AN interesting INDIAN TRIAL ON monday next the young sioux chief plenty horses will again be placed on trial at sioux falls for the killing of lieutenant casey during d the be recent indian war iv the accused Is IB the son aon of living ming beer bear who i a cousin of chief two strikes one of the ahe warlike baules who led a band of ho hostiles hoe tilee stiles and he was waa on scouting outing ac duty when he be shot abot cabey amy who was waa near the lindlau camp on a spying expedition this was on january ath the story of the affair briefly told is that casey left general brookes brooked camp with two cheyenne smuts scouts to take fake a look at the hostile indians indiana who were encamped some miles away the old chief red bed cloud managed to hear bear of the impetuous young officers officer Is intention and sent a warning to him to turn back he persisted however in his determination to view the hostile tepees and though he finally consented to listen to red cloud clouds Is advice his discretion was too tardy to be of avail to him he was just turning his hore hor e to start back when the fatal bullet crashed into the back of b his to head soon after peace was declared plenty horses was arrested and confined in fort meade near deadwood dead wood arid and from there taken to sioux falls S D where he was tried on the charge of murder the new trial of the defendant is made necessary by the disagreement of the jury at the former hearing it will be remembered that his attorneys advanced the unique and startling plea that the indian being actually at war with the united states State fl could not be charged with the crime of murder as defined in the statutes because he had simply done what everybody etee else does doea when he goes to war tried to kill as aa many of the enemy as he could they claimed that the treaties with the sioux did not take away their right to lo declare war a right which the united states recognized by sending a force of eol diers diere into their reservations this polut point although overruled by the court doubtless doubt lees had some borne weight with the jury altogether the case la Is interesting not only because of the feature we have named but because the accused notwithstanding his hia red skin ekin to is accorded the right of a trial by jury at all this thie of itself IR a a welcome innovation and marks marka a long step forward in the government le treatment of its ite aboriginal wards |