Carpio was convicted of murder in the first…

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tol to have mercy on her unfortunate brother. Carpio was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death. A jury was sub- sequently impannelled to inquire into his sanity ; they found him to be sane, but a few weeks after this he died in jail a raving maniac. Roman Chiquito was confined in the mili- tary prison at Leavenworth nearly a year and was then removed to Fort Riley in Kansas. How he escaped with three other Apaches from prison, how they found their way back to the Mescalero reservation, a distance of twelve hun- dred miles, without being seen by a white man enroute, is the subject of this true story. The unparalleled adventure of these four Indians was related to me by Roman Chiquito himself. I would like to tell it in his own simple words, but as he spoke a mixture of Apache, Spanish and English his exact language cannot of course be given, but I have endeavored to preserve his style.