A short distance below I saw several cavalry men who were soon joined by others, eleven in all; a slim force indeed to clean out the ravine held by so many Indians, but they were resolute men. After this, I began to feel very sick and looked around for a sheltered place to avoid the heat of the sun. And, the pop star's son Junior Andre, 17, took to Instagram on Monday, where he shared shirtless snap of the duo with just towels around their waists. There were others also in the same fix. On hearing me, he checked up his horse and looked around. He escaped from prison after serving only one month of his sentence. He soon bandaged up my wounds and told me the only thing that could be done was to apply plenty of water. Had it not been for the watchfulness of our men, they certainly would have got the best o f us. By the time we had everything arranged, the sun was going down. The first two were John Fitzgerald and John Brennan, whose tired mounts faultered so much that they "turned their horses toward the rear when they had gone two miles beyond the lone teepee," according to Thompson, whose horse was the next to go down. His being alone shows with what fearlessness he travelled about even in an enemy's country with hostiles all around him. After his arrest, he brought a lawsuit against authorities charging the prison commissioners with illegal arrest and used the incident to plan his next escape. I thought of the ravine which was cleared by eleven brave men and hoped that I might be able to make my way to the river by that route. "Twenty dollars," said a third and so the bidding went on as at an auction. Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology. A person could easily be mistaken, for the road over which they passed was rocky, sandy, and hard, consequently, the marks left by the horses' feet were very faint.20 Notwithstanding, this mistake left us in a very critical condition. My action would have been justified by the law, as it would have been an act of self defense. He said he was sick. In 1976, sex cult leader and convicted rapist. Are they really "impossible?". He did not need a second bidding, neither did he dismount in military style, but more like a frog landing with feet and hands in the water at the same time. I began to think they had seen me and crouched as close to the tree as possible. Peter Thomson has been covering the broad swath of issues related to the environment and global sustainability for more than 25 years and signed on as The World's environment editor in 2008. After the volley was past, it was a wonder to me how I had escaped. But alas! I was curious to know who he was. Ponies were dashing here and there with their riders urging them on; the dust would rise and mingle with the smoke of the burning grass and brush. In November 1987 Peter Thomson aged 19 at the time escaped from Winchester Prison. Indians were leaving the village in all speed to assist in the fight against the cavalry; others from the battlefield with double burdens of dead and wounded were arriving. But beyond and on a higher elevation than on which I stood was a pillar of rocks, which I thought might afford me a means of defense. Great to see the way the Ocean's been brought into so many aspects of WEF's Annual Meeting in Davos this year. THOMSON, Illinois (KWQC) - Five inmates were captured after escaping from the USP Thomson prison camp last week according to AFGE 4070, the union representing workers at USP Thomson. But finally the poor animal gained his feet with a groan, and Finkle passed on with a rush to overtake our company. Beyond the village was a black mass of ponies grazing on the short green grass. Originally reprinted in The Black Hills Trails, by Jesse Brown and A.M. Willard, Rapid City Journal Co., Rapid City, SD, 1924. One of its hind legs was fearfully gashed by a bullet. The night of June 25, Lt. Charles DeRudio thought he saw Capt. The rope was tied around both her hands, but, struggle as she might, she could not break away. So I would not have to make so many trips. When I had nearly gained the top of the hill, I saw five Sioux Indians. I told him I would get him some if I lived. He was kept very busy for some time. He manage to escape from Pretoria prison with five others in December 1997. Although America has ignored Peter Thompson for nearly 100 years, you really can't understand what happened at the Little Bighorn without listening closely to what Peter Thompson said. I gained the shelter of the ravine without a scratch and I was thankful. On 7 July 1985, in prison of San Sebastian two prisoners escaped: In 1984, six death row inmates, including the. I finished putting on my spurs, mounted my horse again, and rode on after my company, but my progress was very slow. Although the Indians denied it, there are several eye-witness accounts that suggest that there were one or more whites fighting on the Indians' side at the Little Bighorn, although not with the Sioux. So it turns out that there's actually an abundance of reasonable suspects among Custer's Crow scouts! The savages seemed loathe to let us go. Both Brennan and Fitzgerald turned their horses toward the rear, when they had gone two miles beyond the lone teepee. Benteen seemed to be aware of the impending danger, and was forming all the men he possibly could into line at the point where it was expected that the Indians would attack us. Related Goals. I offered to divide the water of one canteen with some of the men of Company C. They refused my offer when I told them that my effort was made in behalf of the wounded members of our company. Or at least that's one plausible way to read the eye-witness record of the battle. He was a notorious bank robber who operated throughout the Midwest during the, Officials boasted that the Lake County Jail in. Madden, [Pvt. It was no wonder that the Indians were in great commotion when they beheld the bold front presented by the cavalry. The Indians let fly with their rifles with the usual result. It was our duty not to question, but to obey. Capt. He escaped by hiding in a pallet of used mailbags. He was convicted for car theft and sentenced for four years imprisonment. So we started in the proposed direction. The noise they made resembled the howling of a coyote and the squealing of a cat. Looking through this opening down the stream, I could see Custer's command drawn up in battle line, two men deep in a half circle facing the Indians who were crossing the river both above and below them. While wondering as to my next move, I was suddenly brought to myself with the question, "Where are you going? They answered, "Yes." I had made haste to fill the canteens and started on my way to camp bidding Mike Madden to be of good cheer and he made a cheerful reply. World Ocean Summit speech by Ambassador Peter Thomson, UNSG's Special Envoy for the Ocean. I made some inquiries of some skulkers who I found among the horses and from what they told me I concluded that the ravine route was the only safe one to take. John J. Mahoney] of our Company and I had no fear but that he would be well cared for. We had been two hours and a half in our concealment in the bend of the river watching the fight between Custer and the Indians. So fierce did she look that my hand involuntarily sought the handle of my revolver. It does mention the hardships of the soldiers of the late Civil War, but it is nothing to campaigning against the Indians. I jerked it from his grasp and passed it on to the next. Nicknamed by some as the "King of Kalashnikovs". I called Watson's attention to it, but he did not think it was the same horse. The trail I was on led directly to the river and thence into the village. "Victor F. Nelson, Notorious Ex-Convict, Believed Poisoned". I told him I was too good a runner for that. Cavalry men were also falling and the ranks gradually melting away, but they sternly and bravely faced their foes; the cavalry men fighting for $13 a month. After leaving three canteens for the wounded at the hospital, I took the other two and gave them to my wounded comrades. It had been built by Indians for some purpose or other. Medal of Honor winner Peter Thompson was the last Seventh Cavalry trooper to get out of George A. Custer's doomed command alive.The Astonisher.com Map (above) reveals how he escaped the fate of his comrades, told in the eye-witness accounts of Thompson himself, fellow Seventh Cavalry survivor, John McGuire, and an Anonymous . In his second escape from the prison, he escaped through a tunnel leading from the shower area to a home construction site 1.5km (0.93mi) away in a Santa Juanita neighborhood. Five days later, police officers found him brandishing an ax handle in his brother's apartment. Thompson was a genuine everyman sort of hero who was wounded in Benteen's desperate, do-or-die charge to clear the head of the ravine on the night of June 25, 1876. He was found very close to our position which goes to show how closely we were confined. Watson, surprised, answered, "No," and again asked what was up. And thus we were brought to the fording place near the center of the village. We finally decided to go down the right bank of the stream and see if we could not get sight of Custer's command, and join our ranks where we were much needed. I had not gone far before I became aware of the fact that I had company. He and other prisoners dressed as prison guards and escaped via ladders across the prison yard to the wall. Before we reached the foot of the bluff we came upon an opening in the timber and brush with several large cottonwood trees lying upon the ground, stripped of their bark. My next trip to the river was taken with more courage. OUR GREAT ESCAPE. On March 17, 1995, in Sublette, Kansas Dawn Amos, Douglas Winter and David Spain escaped in the early morning hours after shooting Sheriff Deputy, Irvin Powell twice. I found in the center of our place of defense that we had a surgeon busily attending to the wounded and dying. Watson began to crawl out of the water. I felt exceedingly thirsty and said to Watson that I proposed to have a drink. Here is Peter Thompson's account of the Seventh Cavalry's march to the Little Bighorn. Benteen standing by my side. The escape allegedly cost Guzmn $2.5 million. The three men were arrested a couple of weeks later and returned to the same facility. By this time the Indians were pouring a shower of lead into us that was galling in the extreme. The noise in the village was as great as ever, which told us that the Indians still held it. I rushed up to him and asked him where he was going. The tunnel was 1.7m (5.7ft) tall and 75cm (29.5in) in width. I made my way to the head of the ravine which ran down to the river. The way that I had to go to my post was up a short hill towards the edge of the bluff and the head of the ravine. They had closed in around us on three sides and so close were they, that we could hear them talking. Marking: [label] "Peter Thomson, registered, Philadelphia" Exhibition History. Then commenced a perfect howl from one end of the village to the other, made by the squaws and papooses. The trio later fled to Colorado where an elderly man was kidnapped and later released unharmed. On coming close, I saw they were our Ree scouts and two Crow Indians, one of whom was Half Yellow Face or Two Bloody Hands. He escaped by crawling through a ventilation duct. The conversation with the Indian did not last long, and what the nature of it was I do not know, but the Crow released the Sioux woman, and she seemed glad to be free came running towards us in a half stooping posture and in her hand was a long bladed knife of ugly dimensions. In New York, convicted murderers Timothy A. Vail and Timothy G. Morgan escaped from Elmira State Penitentiary in July 2003; both were recaptured in two days. The offers of money by the wounded for a drink of water was painful to hear. See Sioux and Cheyenne Military Tactics for more info.] After they had driven Major Reno across the river we noticed that the village was beginning to teem with life. The same is also true of what seems, on the face of it, the wildest parts of Thompson's story: (1) the eye-witness account of how a white man with an Indian shot at him while he was fleeing to join Reno, (2) the hearsay claim (via his Seventh Cavalry straggler companion) James Watson, that Custer took a shot at half-Sioux Seventh Cavalry Scout Billy Jackson just before the beginning of the Custer fight. [Note: this was clearly the slow part of the troop -- Sgt. This animated Bible story is based on Acts 12:1-17.We tell the story through Slapstick Theater - a popsicle stick theater. With a cry of rage he drew his revolver from beneath his overcoat and taking aim at me he told me to skip or he would put a hole through me. (360) 927-3234, Thompson was the last one to see Custer alive, gallop away a short distance to look around, a flat beside the river with a ford at the lower end, the Little Bighorn River ran hard against the bluffs, horsemen with Seventh Cavalry guidons climbing the bluffs above, Custer's Last Fight, The Experience of a Private in the Custer Massacre. "And the strangest part of it," added Watson, "was that instead of taking the back trail, he struck straight from the river across the country and as far as he could see him, he was urging his pony to its utmost speed. James Bennett. In 1993, ten prisoners escaped from Prlielupe prison in. A peculiar accident happened to a man lying next to me, sheltered by a cracker box and talking in a cheerful manner about the probabilities of us getting out of our present difficulty, when a ball came crashing through the box hitting him and killing him instantly. There are 600+ professionals named "Peter Thomson", who use LinkedIn to exchange information, ideas, and opportunities. In October 2013, Kevin Patrick Stoeser escaped from the Austin Transitional Center where he was serving the remainder of a 156-month sentence for four counts of child sexual assault and one count of possession of child pornography. Again we were sent to cover by the approach of more Indians. We formed the cracker boxes into a half circle and kept them as close together as possible. I could see that his days were numbered. I asked him to attend to me when he had time to do so. March 1, 2023. Indians for their families, property, and glory. There was nothing left for us to do but run. Two years later Palaiokostas was captured and sent back to prison. meaning Indian Department. I wondered whether it would be safe to stop long enough to put the water into the canteens, as the fire of the Indians seemed to come from a bend in the bank, a short distance from the mouth of the ravine on this side of the river. This sickness was caused by the loss of blood and the pain in my hand, which at this time had swelled to great size. Just then the order was given to retreat and Reno's command began to march slowly to the rear. Palaiokostas once again escaped from prison by helicopter. He came to the same conclusion. Looking to my right, I saw a ravine and at the bottom of it a small clump of wild cherry bushes. Is this "impossible"? OK, WHO WAS the Crow scout Thompson and Custer apparenlty caught mid-murder and/or rape? One of them was injured during the escape, and while trying to get back into the prison, he got caught in the razor between the fences. The . Powell later died of his injuries in an Oklahoma City hospital three days later. As this duel had been one-sided so far, I determined to try my hand. Although we had 2 boxes of ammunition which amounted to thousands of rounds. Peter set up Thomson Bike Tours in 2001 and must have covered well over 250,000km on the . The sun reflecting on the sand and gravel made it very hot. The officers were riding in order, a little in advance of their respective companies. John Martin agreed, "All the time, as we rode, scouts were riding in and out, and the General would listen to them and sometimes gallop away a short distance to look around.". He was recaptured the same day by Philadelphia police officers, his fifth escape attempt at this prison. He had left his own in its place, but it was practically useless, the breech being broken. It had taken us one half hour to reach this place, making three hours in all. So we started, following the trail until we were entirely clear of the brush and then began to climb the face of the bluff in order to reach the trail on which we saw the cavalry were moving [Watson's concern was legitimate. In fact, however, there is far, far more truth in Thompson's tale than Camp or conventional wisdom has been willing to accept. Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Original multiverse "Back in Prison After Restful Sojourn Here". I now heard the clatter of hoofs behind me. The stench would become so great that it would drive us from our present position and where were we to go? I was astonished at seeing a soldier sitting on a bank of earth facing the river with his back towards me. Benteen was busily hunting up all the men he could to go to the same point, in order to keep the Indians in check and if possible to drive the Indians out of the ravine. The eye-witness record of the battle says there were actually four more survivors who left Custer's command after Curley. Hats off to the leadership & teams at WEF who've had the vision and commitment to make this so. 5. We had plenty of them and some of them very badly hurt. The poor brute had fallen and was struggling to gain an upright position. So leaving the trail I ran down the hill at full speed and came to a place where there was a deep cut with steep sides that I would not have dared to face had I been able to check myself in time. We knew we were surrounded by Indians and we would be very fortunate if we escaped at all. That being denied him, he asked permission to take his company and ascertain Custer's position; but he was refused that privilege. I knew that if anyone needed such an implement they were liable to take it. When they had passed, we moved on our way. So, loading my carbine which was done in a moment, I took aim at him as he turned to go to his pony which was about thirty feet back of him on a slight elevation winding up his rawhide rope as he did so, I fired, but missed him because Watson who was on the line with the Indian made a movement which distracted my aim. Suddenly a small band of Indians came up towards us on a jog trot, which made us seek cover. Half Yellow Face only shook his head and said "Heap Sioux," "Heap Sioux," "Heap shoot" "Heap shoot," "Come," and motioned for me to go back with them. George A. Finckle] of our company sitting calmly on his horse looking on and making no effort to help Watson in his difficulty. After Custer excused the scouts from further service, Goes Ahead said he and Hairy Moccasin and White Man Runs Him went together to the river on their own, and Sioux warrior White Cow Bull said he saw three Crows on the bluffs above Medicine Tail Coulee just before Cuter attacked the village. The questioner belonged to my own company and I naturally expected him to sympathize with me in my errand of mercy. As an Australian considered a part-time player on the PGA Tour in the 1950s and '60s, Thomson existed in a parallel universe to American fans who, at that media-lite time, were rarely exposed to. Slaper also questioned the timing of Thomspon's tale (he saw dark significance in the fact that Thompson's battlefield companion, Pvt. So what Walter Mason Camp called "impossible" in Thompson's story about the tethered squaw is actually the opposite! He had made the mistake of placing the box the wrong way, the edge of the crackers toward the outside. Custer was well versed in several Indian languages. They were talking and gesticulating in a very earnest manner. The firing was continuous, I removed my hat so that I would not attract attention, and looked over the panorama, as it was spread out before me. All routes to the river were cut off by the Indians. It was just the way Custer and his mercinary scouts did business. When I got close enough to Watson, I called to him in a guarded voice. I struggled to my feet and staggered after Watson. He replied, "Have you seen Custer?" When I thought it time for him to fire, I dropped to my left side, the bullet whistling over my head, buried itself in the bluff behind me. I was not sure but that the Indians might take a notion to follow me. The heat at this time seemed to be intense, but it might have been on account of my exhausted condition. 27 Feb 2023. How were we going to transport our wounded? I told him that as I could not carry a gun I thought I had better do something to help the wounded and the dying. Peter's a public radio "lifer" who first got hooked on radio journalism in high school, while listening to and then interning with Danny Schechter the News Dissector at Boston's legendary WBCN. We finally concluded to enter the village by way of the trail. Tony, for that was the man's name, was lying in the place best suited for the shelter and the men called to him to get out of the way. The red devil still kept aiming at me; I was a better target for him now than before. Najmrodzki was a famous robber and thief, known for escaping 29 times from the prison and the authorities. This was the flag which had been placed there by the corporal just before he was shot. $28.00. November 2, 2007 2. As I strolled around, I could see something of the horrors of our position. But I knew he was a hostile and we stood no show whatever on foot with such a number against us. THISEYE-WITNESS account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Seventh Cavalry Private Peter Thompson is one of the three great Lost Texts -- or perhaps I should say, Ignored Texts -- of the Little Bighorn eye-witness canon (the others are the accounts of White Cow Bull and Pretty Shield). AMONG SURVIVORS of the Little Bighorn, a few veterans like William Slaper dismissed Thompson's story out-of-hand, while others -- such as John McGuire, Daniel Kanipe, Curley, Goes Ahead and an Anonymous Ree -- corroborated parts of what Thompson said. I was glad to see him safe, it gave me renewed courage, and we hoped that we would soon be entirely safe. This, for a time, seemed to deter him for he laid down his gun and commenced work at his former occupation. Seeing that I was determined to go, they said no more but one of the men of Company C, named Tim Jordan [Pvt. Custer was mounted on his sorrel horse and it being a very hot day he was in his shirt sleeves; his buckskin pants tucked into his boots; his buckskin shirt fastened to the rear of his saddle; and a broad brimmed cream colored hat on his head, the brim of which was turned up on the right side and fastened by a small hook and eye to its crown. Questioner belonged to my feet and staggered after Watson as I strolled,. 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