Millard County Chronicle | 1913-06-26 | Page 5 | Jealousy Crazed Indian Shoots Squaw and Self

JEALOUSY CRAZED INDIAN SHOOTS SQUAW AND SELF ' i Tragedy Interrupt 8un Dance of the Indiana, Dancer 8hootlng Wife .Whom He Believed Unfaithful. Vernal, Utah Craied with jealousy e. bile the aun dance, greatest of Ute festivals, waa in progreaa Tuesday, Tim Inchwltch whot and killed hit njuaw and then fired a bullet into hie own bead. Ha died Instantly. Inchwltch waa one of the most prominent of the Ute I'ncompnhgre tribe, which ha been holding ita annual an-nual aun dance near White Hock. Pliortly before 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, bla squaw approached the pole about which the dancera wire circling and placed a bundle of sweet berba at ita foot Almost at on e, a young brave, cne of the dancera. bent over the herbs aa if to take them. This act aroused the aboilfil-ne'a aboilfil-ne'a Jealousy, The B(uaw, frightened at the conse-Quencea conse-Quencea of her act, ran away. Inchwltch Inch-wltch followed her, and when she had gone some distance, be ahot her dead, lie then fled to bis tepee. Ill baby girl ran to meet htm. The Indian picked her up and carried her Into hla tepee, then fired a bulelt into his brain. When news of the double tragedy reached the aun dance half a mile away, a hundred excited brave rushed rush-ed to avenge the murder, but their purpose waa halted when tbey found Inchwltch bad already committed suicide. The brother of IncDaito, one of the dancers, asked for revenge upon the person of the young brave w hoso act in stooping to pick up the herbs had caused the tragedy. A council of the chiefs was held, and medklno men said epecial Incantations Incanta-tions over the young brave and the murderer's brother, resulting In the settling of the blood feud, the sweet berba being divided .between the two.