Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1874-09-04

nc hrst Impulse OF the brother upon
reading this letter was to seek out at
once and kill the villain who had ruined
his family, but he thought the momenta-
ry suffering inflicted by q ball not enough
punishment for such scouudrel. and so
devised plain for revenge that no In
dian could have outdone for cruelty -
Keeping the receipt Of his letter a pro-
found secret, he went on with his bust
ness as usual |, and every day met his
partner on the same terms of friendly
intimacy as formerly.
When the skins we're packed aud all
in readiness to 20 down the river the
brother went to Fort Benson and there
had executed will, leaving the name
of the person who made it blank after
which he returned to his camp on the
Jefferson fork.
He then represented that on the Platte
great profits were to be made in the fur
trade and proposed to his partner that
instead of going down the Missouri they
should 90 overland to Fort Keamey and
intercept the boats at the mouth Of the
Platte on the Missouri The nducement
was that if they found all as represented
they would establish branch of their
business at Fort Laramie and thus IN
crease their profits. The partner readi-
ly assented to proposals so manifcstly for
the advantage of both, and alone, they
set out, taking with them only pack
mule to carry the -four and bacon to be
used on the journey. They Travelled for
many days and finally came to the Platte.
down which they followed the overland
trail to Demands rancho. Under some
pretensc or other the brother induced his
partner to accompany him into the lonely
pass, where disarmng him, he securely
tied him hand and foot and then bound
him to the rock. AT first the partner
thought it was some cruel joke, but when
the brother produced the letter and read
it, the poor man knew too well his time
had come. He confessed all and asked
to be shot. but the brother had another
fate in store for his victim. Coollv en-
camping by the rock, he sat down to see
his partner starvc to death. On the
third day the Inflated man signed the
deed bequeathing all his property to the
injured girl and the brother attached a
fictitious name as witness to the instru-
ment by the terms of which be was made
the executor of his partners estate. He
then wrote letters saying he had fallen
very i'll of fever on the plains and if he
did not recover, these letters would be
delivered by his beloved partner, And
all this the Infatuated brother compelled
the poor man to do and then quietly
waited the end. Day by day the partner
grew weaker and weaker and the brother
gloated over his misery, often reading
to him the letter from his mother.
The poor man promised to marry the
girl and make all reparation in his power
to the family, but the brother was deaf
to cntreaties. At last the partner,
dwindlod to a skeleton, and the brother,
after buryiug his victims omaciated
corpse in the sand, resumed his journey
to st. Louis. There he gave out that
his partner had died while on his way
through the Rocky Mountains and in the
proof of his assertion delivered the letters
The will was also proved and the girl
became the dead mans heir Two years
afterwards the brother was shot by In
dams and before he died, confessed what
he had done Some hunters visited the
place and dug up the skeleton, around
the neck Of which still was the chain by
which the poor man when living had
been fastened to the fatal rock. The
spot is still pointed out to travellers, and
they tell of how the brother, day after
day. eat his meals in the presence of bis
prisoner, but would not give so
much as crumb or cup of water to
Stake his thirst.