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Show NONE KNOW TECUMSEH'S END No Positive Proof That Indian Leader Was Slain at the Battle of the Thames. It has been commonly accepted thnt Tccumseh was killed In bnttle nt the Thames In Onturlo by Col. It. M. j0m. sou, afterward vice president of tlm United States, but- It Is not ut all cer-tain cer-tain that Coi. Johnson killed him, or even positively known that he fell lu thut buttle. TJint he disappeared nt the time of the buttle, October fi, 1813, Is certain, und u body, supposed to be his, was found ufter thut en-gngement. en-gngement. There Is an oW book printed by the Miami Printing und Publishing com-puny com-puny of Clnclunntl, written by Col. William Stanley Hatch, entitled "A Chapter of the History of tho War of 1812," lu wlilch this reference Is made to the death of Tccumseh: "Colonel Johnson Informed me, nnd he so repcutodly stated during tho canvas of 1840 for the vice presidency, that ho did not pretend to say that tho Indian referred to us killed by him wus Tecumseh ; .he wns not ncqunlnted with Tecuuisehtti peisouul uppcuronce. All that lie know wus that a tall, athletic ath-letic warrior confronted him as he led a charge with his 'M men, and him ho Blew with his pistol." Colonel Hutch clones his book with this puragruph: "1 re on the Thames this heroic chieftain, the greatest of his rucc, fell. Vet no Indian I huvo met, nnd I have Interrogated many, has even udmltted this lust fact, and no white man thut I have seen has with certainty known of It." |