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Show Talked Himself to Death Chief Shavehead, vicious, sullen and treacherous, one of the most hated of the early Indian chiefs of Michigan, literally talked himself to death. His tongue, loosened by liquor, liq-uor, he boasted here, says a correspondent corre-spondent in the Detroit Free Press, about 1840 of the part he had taken in the massacre at Fort Dearborn some 25 or 30 years before. Jobe Wright, hermit of Diamond Lake island and a survivor of the massacre, massa-cre, stood on the outskirts of the group and listened. As Shavehead let, Wright followed. The Indian was never seen again. - M |