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Show ! - TEN YEARS FOR YOUNG INDIAN, j - ! : 1 Salt Lake. June 17. Accompanied , ; by Deputy United States Marshal II. j P. Myton, who brought blm from An-J 'i eath, Utah, and his Interpreter, a 4 young N'avajo Indian who answers to j I ( tijo name of Fitz Lee, Dan Tsose, the ,; 1 ' youthful murderer of four members of bis tribe, appeared before Judge Mar- J : sh.rl this morning, and was sentenced ; - 10 a hue of $100 on each of the four j counts and an imprisonment of 10 j years in the Leavenworth," Kansas fed-j fed-j ' eral prison. 4 1 ' j The boy came into the court room dressed in an old pair of overalls,-and f an old khaki colored canvas-coat. His j long straight hair fell .aromi -and well Into his neck, and as he took his seat in the court room and ;u i. . toward the judge, he seemed to be absolutely ab-solutely free from any realization of the heiuousness of his crime. He had been maltreated, he claimed, and he had therefore killed his oppressors, and he seemed to act as if that was ah entirely satisfactory reason for his1 ?ction. He did not appear to- be1 much concerned with the proceedings 1 about him, though he exhibited alertness alert-ness when he was asked to sit or stand or answer questions through the interpreter. j He stood while Clerk of the Court .T. 1. Letcher read the indictment of Mie grand jury to hiin. Tt was slow-work, slow-work, as every passage had to be interpreted in-terpreted by Fitz Lee, the interpreter, who was duly sworn and testified as to htb knowledge, of. the English and Navajo languages. In interpreting he , did so in measured words, using his j right band very freely as if to emnha- size his statements to the prisonerAt the rouclusion of the reading of the indictment, Judge Marshall instructed the interpreter to ask him if he killed the parties. The boy answered in the affirmative, saying that thev had ill-treated ill-treated him. The first count; that of as-faulting as-faulting the woman.- -who. though wounded, recovered. was stricken out, and on account of the -boy's 'age. the charge agaihst him was made one of manslaughter, and he was sentenced as above. When asked by the court through the interpreter if he had an idea of what ov( be done to him. or how he would be punished for what ho had done, he said he had none. He we to all intents and purposes a wild boy of 1 he hills, and as such he ex-1 crcOd tympathy from all present. Tho 1 toy stated to the district attorney that he had never received any kindness i from anyone excepting a brother and a slsler. The hand of everyone else 1 he intimated, had been against him! If he did not do as he was told he was beaten and ill-treated. As he told his story he bhed tears, which Bhowed trmo susceptibility. The boy was taken to he office of the LnHed Stales marshal from tho court room, where the details connect-ed connect-ed with his journey to the federal pris-I pris-I on at Leavenworth were discussed. Just wh- will. take him there had not been decided this morning by U S. Marshal L. II. Smyth, but It. was said i that he would start on his journey in I , nn? course or two or three days. j As lhe hoy is somewhere between 15 and 16 years of age no one knows Ms exact age he will he about 25 yeaTB old when he is released after , serving his sentence. , It was said that as the boy is going lw"1 e the best pr,80t,s 1" the Jn . r1 ,S Kt06, he W,U be w? cared hpV. hf traI' he will receive heie Mill bb much better for him than anything that he has known. If n , st0, v Is true even the strict discipline dis-cipline of the prison will 8pem ex- ' rcn?,Vn(lneSS 10 th0 hy- wo has I recf'vod. if the truth has been told more than his share of the rebuffs I usually accorded the'orphan |