. History of the Chicago police from the settlement of the community to the present time, under authority of the mayor and superintendent of the force . bers of the household at Lees Placeon the river, except Mrs. Lee and her infant, fell victims onthe 15th of August. Black Partridge saved the mother andchild from the infuriated savacjes during the massacre. Thenoble chief later proposed marriage to this woman, but was in-duced to give her up for a liberal ransom. The man who paidthe ransom, a trader, Mr. Du Pois, afterward married herhimself. Chicago toward the close of 1812 and until the 4:t
. History of the Chicago police from the settlement of the community to the present time, under authority of the mayor and superintendent of the force . bers of the household at Lees Placeon the river, except Mrs. Lee and her infant, fell victims onthe 15th of August. Black Partridge saved the mother andchild from the infuriated savacjes during the massacre. Thenoble chief later proposed marriage to this woman, but was in-duced to give her up for a liberal ransom. The man who paidthe ransom, a trader, Mr. Du Pois, afterward married herhimself. Chicago toward the close of 1812 and until the 4:th dayJuly 1816, just thirteen years after the arrival of Capt. Whist-ler, was as desolate a spot as it had been one hundred and fiftyyears before. At the close of the war of 1812, that is to sayin 1814, the project of constructing a new fort to replace theone destroyed, was broached in Congress, and PresidentMadison in the same year called the attention of that bodyto the necessity of a canal that would connect Lake Michiganwith the Illinois and the Mississippi rivers. It was also sug-gested about this time, that a line of f<nts be constructed. EDWARD ,Lieut. Comdc- Haf risen St. District. THE BLOODY BEGINNING. 39 along the water highway from Chicago to St. Louis. Pres-ident Madisons suggestion is said to be the first expressionever given to the idea which afterward was carried out in theconstruction of the Illinois and Michigan canal. The con-struction of the new Fort Dearborn was placed in the handsof Capt. Hezekiah Bradley, who arrived with his detachmenton July 4, 1816. The bones of the victims of 1812, says Blanchard, still lay scattered over the sand drifts, amongst the sparsegrowth of bunch grass and stunted shrubbery that grewthere, and thus remained till 1822, when they were care-fully gathered and buried with the measured respect of mil-itary etiquette, and they are now a part of the dust beneaththe feet of a countless throng of busy citizens. The new fort
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