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164 WISCONSIN IIISTORIC~~L COLLPC~CIONS.

After we left Chicago, we di'cl not see any person until me
reached Milmaultee, where we fonnd So~onio~ JUNEAE, and
thence went to Manitowoc, where I left the boat and met the
man and horse. I was unable to walk, but mounted the horse
and started for Green Bay. One of my men, mho mas also
much reduced, attempted to walk, but did not travel far mhen
he gave out. We had to leave him, but provided him a shel-
ter, a kettle of water, and half of our provisions, We hurried
on as fast as me could, and as soon as I reached Green Bay, I
despatched two men with a horse and necessaries to bring in
the man me left behind. They found him alive, and by slow
travel brought him to the Bay. When I arrived at the Bay,
no one knew me, I was so changed by sickness and exposure.
I mas sick for nearly s year.
About this time, Dr. MADISON, the surgeon of the troops at
Green Bay, started for the East with two soldiers. When
near Manitomoc, and the soldiers s short distance in advance
on foot, the Doctor was shot from his horse, by an Indian in
ambush, the whole charge lodging in the back of his neck.
The soldiers instantly returned and found hiin badly wounded;
when one of them mounted the Doctor's horse and returned to
Green Bay for help. A izunlber of officers and soldiers
started for Manitowoc, but mhen they arrived the Doctor was
dead. There mere no Indians to be seen. They carried the
body to Green Bay for interment. It mas some tiuze before
the murderer was taken; he was sent to Detroit for trial,
together with another Indian who had killed a Frenchman
about that time. I had to go to Detroit as a witness; both
Indians mere found guilty, and executed at Detroit."
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* Dr. WILLIAM S. ~IADIS~N murdered early in the yoar 1821. In
Nalea' Regaster of June 23d, 1821, we find the following: '.Dr. MADISON, n
surgeon in the army of the United States. and stationed at Green Bay,
having leave of nbsence to visit his family in Kentucky, was, shortly after
starting on his journey, murdrred by a Chippeway Indian, who has beeu
detected and del~vered up by his tribe. The murderer confesses the fact,
but oan assign no reason for it-on the conlrnry, he says that the whites have
always been his friends." Thtt name of the Indian murderer wna ICE-TAU-
xnrr. A hlenomonec Tndian named KF-~~A-III~-RIM had, near the close of
1820, killed a Frenchman near Green Bgy, of the nnme of CUARLES ULRICH.
Both were tried at Detroit in October, 1821, and convicted; and were both
executed there on the 27th of December Following. L.C.D.