Show INDIANS TO BE HANGED it Is not often that thai indians indiana meet with the full penalty of the white man mano ld law for murder through passing ing through a trial iu in regular courts 0 where they have done so have Inc increased reared how however everin m late years two more red meo men are to bo be added to the list lilt in westminster B U early ID 10 1894 they are known as peter anu and jack anti and the trial which resulted in their conviction lasted six days their defense was conducted with skill and ability but jailed ailed to secure lor for them immunity from punishment the murder for wyica they were arrested occurred october 27 1892 the victim being albert edward paten it was a deliberately planned affair puree years provi asly drije had bad charge of a gaug of men on harrison iver B C stripping salmon eggs for the nat nalo tiery chery most of the men e employed were indians one ol of them being peter he was saucy one day anu ana nur gh angal andril seized win mm and lucked him in the river As is characteristic ic of the indian race face peter determined to be revenged revena fd on his bis assailant while was out ou t J in u a baat b at a lew few days lator later he bo was WAN fired upon twice from a clump of bushes on the river bank k for him the bullets went wide of their mark nothing of an unusual nature during the next two years and the matter matt ermag was forgotten on the of october 1892 made a short asburt cudne cuta was his file wout wont when going that way over a vacant piece of property when tie be was waylaid and shot by peter and jack he bad paid JI with his lile for his harshness to the k ft vaie the two indians to ox the murder on peters wile wife but the proof against them was too strong for the success af their scheme so ga they were convicted and are to be hangea banged on january 15 next if indians guilty of offenses were to be required by the enforcement of law jaw to expiate their crime rather orather than that reckless jec klees white men should be permitted K to inflict indict punishment outside ot of legal forms there would be much jess fees trouble with the aborigines than there la Is now indian outbreaks have diminished of late years because legal methods have been somewhat butter better observed by the white men it has not beer been through increasing the indians respect for law jaw but by lessening the white mans disregard for it in ameir presence prea ence the indians have as jauch regard fr for the inevitable as their Pule faced brothers a and nd are equally appreciative f the fact of regular enforcement of discipline toward them for either right or wrong doing |