The wounded Indian, not to be foiled, crept after him, and thus they were brought face to face. Another shot from the white man and the Indian was dead. His companions, his own son and another Indian, mounted a horse and fled. The Indian's shot, however, had not gone amiss, for it lodged in Mr. Lamson's shoulder, and he being some distance from his son, was supposed by him to be killed. The son returned to town to give the alarm. A quick response brought men to the scene of conflict, where they found the dead Indian, but Mr. Lamson was missing. A singular thing about it was that Crow was laid out, his head resting on his rolled-up coat, and he had a new pair of moccasins on. It would appear as though his son returned to make sure of his father's death, and finding him dead, he performed this last deed.[A] [Footnote A: Brown's Valley, Minn., Nov. 30.--Nathan Lamson, the man who, during the Indian outbreak in Minnesota in 1862, killed Little Crow, the famous Sioux chieftain, died to-day on his farm across the line in South Dakota, aged 96.--[Chicago Times-Herald, Dec. 1, 1896.] Mr. Lamson's wound was a severe one, but he made his way back to his home, which he reached about two o'clock the next morning. Little Crow's body was brought to town, and the coat he had on was recognized as belonging to a man who had been found murdered some weeks before. [Illustration: Designed by A. P. Connolly. Mr. Lamson Shooting Little Crow near Hutchinson, Minn., in August, 1863.] The body of this murderous old chief, after it lay in state on the ground for a day or two, was dumped into an unhonored grave, and no tears of regret were shed for him. While this was being done down in Minnesota, a military train five miles long was in pursuit of him up in Dakota; and the news did not reach General Sibley for two weeks. The description given of this Indian was so accurate that the General said it was no other than Little Crow. This again was corroborated by his son, who was some weeks after captured in a starving condition. Thus ended the ignominious life of Little Crow, the great Sioux chief who had influenced his people to believe that the time had come for them to reclaim their lost empire. CHAPTER XXXVI. LITTLE CROW, JR.--HIS CAPTURE. After the death of Crow, senior, as narrated in the preceding chapter, his son and heir, Wo-wi-nap-a, becomes an important character in this chapter, and we will follow him and hear what he has to say about his father's death.