“The Killing of the Squaw”
“and The Revenge”

     The following circumstances of an incident
of an Indian family quarrel, and its 
result was narrated to me by Jas. B. Scott. 

     Scott, was a youth at the time
1836 when this tragedy was perpetrated.

     A Pottawattamie [Potawatomi] Indian, his 
squaw papoose [papoose] and sister of the
Indian’s wife – having [illegible] the Eel
River returning to this village at the [ford?] near the “point” at
Logansport – the Indian was drunk
and demanded some money which she
had in her [illegible] – She resisted
his demands firmly – as she knew the
use of it would be employed in the
purchase of more whiskey. The Indian
became enraged at her obduracy and in a fit of
uncontrolled perfusion he drew his
knife, and stabbed his squaw to the 
heart and death immediately was
the result. The Indian camped near
his dead squaw – and after a short
time the Indian [line crossed through the word] fell asleep
and While yet asleep – the sister of the dead
woman – determined upon a bloody revenge
for the death of her murdered sister – she
was resolute and determined [line crossed through the word] achieved the
revenge. She stealthily went to the
wood pile – in the rear of Joseph Barron’s home
the interpreter [written in parentheses] and took the axe – returned 
to the camp. She [line crossed through the word] raised the axe over
the sleeping Indian – and with [unmeaning?]
certainty – the keen edge – down the Indians
head – dividing it – completely – It need not
be added that it was a death blow.  

     The Squaw immediately mounted