Then he fell down, and his torturers scalped him, and threw burning coals on his bare skull.

Rising, he walked about the post once or twice again, and then died.

Girty and the Wyandots looked on, laughing at his agony, but taking no part in the torture.

When the news of his dreadful fate was brought to the settlements, it excited the greatest horror, not only along the whole frontier, but elsewhere in the country; for he was widely known, was a valued friend of Washington and was everywhere beloved and respected.
Knight, a small and weak-looking man, was sent to be burned at the Shawnee towns, under the care of a burly savage.

Making friends with the latter, he lulled his suspicions, the more easily because the Indian evidently regarded so small a man with contempt; and then, watching his opportunity, he knocked his guard down and ran off into the woods, eventually making his way to the settlements.
Another of the captives, Slover by name, made a more remarkable escape.
Slover's life history had been curious.