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Show DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BOARD OF INDIAN COMMISSIONERS SXO = G5 VAUX J « . Pr, iL.' 3Ei. » - h!*. P*. WARREN K. M30SEHEAO. AsOO « » . MASS. SAMUEL. A. ELIOT EOSTON. MASS. FRANK KNOX. MANCHESTER. N. H. DANIEL SMILEY. MOHCNK LAKE. N. Y. WASHINGTON GEORGE VAUX. J « ., CHAIRMAN MALCOLM MCDOWELL, SECRETARY MALCOLM MCDOWELL. WASHINGTON. D. C. HUGH L. SCOTT PRINCETON, N. J. CLEMENTS. UCKER. SAVANNAH, GA. FLORA WARREN SEYMOUR. CHICAGO. ILL. WALTER GEORGE SMITH. PHILADELPHIA, PA. 5120 I n t e r i o r Building, March 27, 1933, Dear General Scott: Replying to your special delivery l e t t e r of March 35, regarding the Paiutes in Utah, Superintendent McZean of the Consolidated lite Indian Agency is on the ground and has been for several days* His several telegrams to the Commissioner are to the effect that a l l but one of the Indians, Old Posey, have been brought in and that yesterday the sheriff of the county, with three utes and an i n t e r p r e t er had gone out to get in touch with Posey and get him to come in* Mr. McKean wires that one Indian, whom he called an " escaping prisoner," was killed* Apparently this is one of the two or three Paiutes who, according to the best information obtainable here had been arrested in the act of stealing horses* The trouble began when some Paiutes rode into town_ XX^^' 1-^ and forcibly took the prisoners from the law/ and in the shooting which followed this one Indian was killed* It appears also that two Indians and one white man were* s l i g h t l y wounded*, apparently there were no casualties after that* Mr. McLean telegraphed that but very few Indians were concerned in this affair; that the'white people of Blanding and the law officers were taking care of the Indians, men, women and children, to the number of 79. He wired also day • before yesterday that 13 children at the request of their parents had been sent to an Indian school and yesterdays telegram said another lot of children had been sent to school. The Commissioner, with the approval of Secretary T^ rk, wired Superintendent Mckean to have the court appoint counsel for the Indians who might be brought to t r i a l and to see to" i t that they got a f a i r t r i a l , but that he, the Commissioner, aai the Secretary, were of the opinion that if the^ e Indians had been committing acts of lawlessness taey should he t r i e d the same as white |