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"In the former case he had cast over the young woman 

 a spell that lasted for many days. He was importuned to 

 take it away, but he steadfastly refused, holding that he 

 had no power to do it. 



"Another medicine man was called and after examining 

 the girl, he confirmed the beliefs of other Indians that, 

 could the spell be removed the girl would recover. This 

 was recalled and Gi Shin Beta was informally sentenced 

 to die. Conforming to an unwritten law of the tribe and 

 in the belief that they were doing their fellowmen a 

 justice, the four young Indian braves went to the moun- 

 tain lodge of Gi Shin Beta, took him from the house and 

 killed him with an axe. They left the body in the yard 

 and there it remained for several hours. A friend of the 

 four came along later and rolled it into a ditch. 



"The plea of H. H. Linney, council for the defendants, 

 was unique. The defendants, he said, knew not what they 

 did. They were following a wild call of other genera- 

 tions of their kind, not the Old Testament call of an eye 

 for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, but the call that rings 

 in behalf of society and the peaceable livlihood of those 

 interested in the welfare of their kin and kind. Linney 

 declared that the white man is inconsistent in condemn- 

 ing a belief in witchcraft, as it has been but a few years 

 comparatively since white men were burned at the stake 

 by their own kind for the practice of witchcraft. 



"There are thousands of men today who believe that 

 humans are possessed of the power to cast out devils, 

 Kinney argued, and the white man should not be too 

 prone to condemn the Indian for holding such a belief. 

 Religious belief- is strong in all mankind, he said, and 

 these four slayers could scarcely, in justice to their be- 

 lief, be measured by the tape of the white man's law. 



"There is consternation in the camps of the Navajos. 



