A cattleman from Fort Pierce had taken a herd over to Punta Rassa for shipment to Cuba, and was returning home with the money from the sale in gold coins.
[4] Jumper wanted to marry the daughter of Big Tommie, but was told to find a black wife.
[5] Descriptions of the attack include ones from Betty Mae Tiger Jumper's grandmother Mary Tiger, from Will Addison, the son of a white settler, who witnessed the attack from a trader's camp next to the Snake Clan camp, from Billy Bowlegs III, Jumper's nephew, from an unnamed source that appeared in The New York Times, and in a book on the history of the cattle industry by Joe Ackerman.
[9] Details of the attack vary, but Jumper entered the Snake Clan camp and shot and killed several people.
[10][8][7][9][4] A boy who was shot at by Jumper escaped and alerted a Seminole named Billy Martin who was working in a nearby cane field.
Jumper's victims were buried nearby, and a medicine man came to ritually clean the camp site.