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justified as ever one human being can be for taking the life of another.

I have been from that day to this charged with having led the Indians in this massacre. I deny no thing; I simply tell what I know and all I know of this matter as briefly as possible, and let it pass.

The massacre, as it is called, occurred in the first month of the year 1867. The whites were besieged by the Indians in a strong wooden house, a perfect fortress. The Indians asked them to surrender, offering to conduct them safely to the settlements. They felt secure, and laughed at the proposition. A long fight followed, in which many Indians fell. At last the Indians carried great heaps of hay to the walls, fired it, and the whites perished.