HE HANGED THEM HIGH by Homer Croy. Pages 55-56
HE HANGED THEM HIGH by Homer Croy.
Pages 55=56
HE HANGED THEM HIGH by Homer Groy. Pages 95-56
ISHTONUBBEE, Gibson and SEELY, Isham
Ishtonubbee and Seely were both full-blooddd Chickasaw Indians who
resided in the Indian Territory. One night they went to the home
of an Indian medicine man named Finney located near Stonewall in
what is now Pontotoc Cos, Okla, Finney, known as "Dr. Finney" by
the whites, farmed some in addition to practicing tribal medicine
and lived alone with the exception of a black housekeeper named Mrs.
Mason. Ishtonubbee and Seely asked to be allowed to Spend the night
and a place was made for them. After Finney and Mrs, Mason had re«
tired for the night, the two men went outside and got an axe and a
shotgun, They KX planned to rob Finney as he and his housekeeper
slept and to use the weapons only if discovered, Their nose awakened
Mrs. Finney and one of them bludgeoned her to death the gun barre]
while the other killed Finney with the axe, Their bodies were dis-
covered the next morning and Ishtonubbee and Seely were taken into
custody shortly after wards and sent to Fort Smith, Ark., where they
were tried, convictihd and sentenced to die in the U. S. District
Courte They were hanged there on April 21, 1876,
ISHTONUBBEE, Gibson and SEELY, Isham
Ishtonubbee and Seely were both full-blooddd Chickasaw Indians who
resided in the Indian Territory, One night they went to the home
of an Indian medicine man named Finney located near Stonewall in
Bhat is now Pontotoc Co., Okla. Finney, known as "Dr. Finney" by
the whites, farmed some in addition to practicing tribal medicine
and lived alone with the exception of a black housekeeper named Mrs.
Masone Ishtonubbee and Seely asked to be allowed to Spend the night
and a place was made for them, After Finney and Mrs, Mason had re-
tired for the night, the two men went outside and got an axe and a
shotgun. They KH planned to rob Finney as he and his housekeeper
slept and to use the weapons only if discovered. Their nose awakened
Mrs. Finney and one of them bludgeoned her to death the gun barre]
while the other killed Finney with the axe, Their bodies were dis-
covered the next morning and Ishtonubbee and Seely were taken into
custody shortly after wards and sent to Fort Smith, Ark., where they
were tried, convictihd and sentenced to die in the U. S. District
Court. They were hanged there on April 21, 1876,
ISHTONUBBER, Gibson and SESLY, Isham
Ishtonubbee and Seely were both full-blooddd Chickasaw Indians who
resided in the Indian Territory.
of an Indian medicine man nam
re they
the U. S. District
Court. They were hanged there on April 21, 1876,
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