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Show TSE-NE-GAT FREED OF MURDER CHARGE PIUTE INDIAN WHO CAUSED WAR IN UTAH WILL BE GIVEN HIS FREEDOM. Miniature Indian Uprising Followec Attempt of United States Marshal to Arrest Indian on Charge of Having Murderers Mexican. Denver. Tse-Ne-Gat, the Piute In dian whose trial for the murder ol Juan Chacon, a Mexican sheepherdei in the wilderness of southwestern Colorado in March, 1914, stirred nation-wide interest, is free to return to his native desert. A jury in the federal court for the district of Colorado, after four hours of deliberation, two Hours of which was spent in discussing luncheon, returned re-turned a verdict late Thursday of not not guilty. A pathetic feature of the verdict is the previously rendered verdict oi physicians of St. Anthflny's hospital that the young Indian can live but a short while, his lungs and glands be ing seriously affected with tuberculosis. tubercu-losis. ' The Indian war, which extended more than a month, ended when General Gen-eral Hugh L. Scott induced Tse-Ne Gat and his tribesmen to surrender. They were placed in the Salt Lake, county jail March, ii. - Before leaving Salt Lake the other Indians agreed to live on the reserva tion and . to observe the laws laid down to them by Superintendent Jenkins. Jen-kins. They also solemnly agreed not to take up arms against the white men again. |