9ne i:ga 1859 ayv ino:H 5 [^*] 



9th day 1859 I Ino:li 5 



FREE TRANSLATION 



When Wini was here, she came to me and said: "E:ni stole money 

 from me," she stated. 



"Watch her," I told her. 



Now it becomes clear. Next day Da:gwadi:hi saw $2.10. E:m 

 was in Yellow Hill. She had the money tied up in her kerchief. 



I had loaned it to my mother. Finally she handed it to me to 

 help on the $4.20. 



I, the clerk, write this on July 9, 1859. 



I, Ino:li 



COMMENTARY 



This police blotter memorandum of crime and detection in old 

 Wolftown is sparse in details, but we nevertheless are able to trace 

 the story line. At some time before her trip to Tennessee and her 

 death there, Wini filed a complaint against a certain E:ni for theft of 

 $4.20. (On the Terrell Roll there are several individuals whose 

 names, after making allowance for Terrell's spelling, resolve to E:ni; 

 we cannot be sure as to which one was the accused.) Da:gwadi:hi ^^ 

 found E:ni in possession of $2.10 of the stolen money, and E:n% 

 surrendered it in partial restitution. 



We never learn what punishment, if any, was meted the culprit, 

 but we doubt that crime paid any more handsomely in Wolftown 

 than elsewhere. From another document we discover that a certain 

 E:ni was expelled by the Methodists of Echota Mission. She was 

 more than likely the one in reference here. 



One observes that this matter of theft from one deceased was being 

 aired at the time of the settling of the estate, and no doubt as a phase 

 of it. 



Mooney's caption appears to apply recto and verso: "Official 



[ ] Statement of moneys loaned (other side) & complaint of 



money stolen from an individual." 



«3 The i is not plainly made and therefore questionable. 



M The significance of this numeral is not evident. 



«» Da:gwadi:hi was a conjuror. Some of his formulas are found in Mooney (MS., No. 1888, passim), and 

 his photograph is seen in Mooney (1900, p. 256). He may have been engaged professionally to divtae the 

 location of the missing money. 



