The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-05-15

The Rleschsd nonss q de DELANEY
ii Brothers Found.
With Remnants OF Clothing, Camp Equipase,
Etc., Strewn About.

With Remnants Of Clothing, Camp ~Equipase,
Etc., Strewn About.
q y little over a year ago, two miners,
known as,the Delaney Brothers, started
from the Black Hills, ontheir return trip
to Laramie but theyneverreachedthere.
Inquiries were made relative to them
and their whereabouts, eliciting from
many who heard the question put, the
brief but significant sentence-word,
''Injuns! !" So the friends that knew
them here and the friends that had
come from the east to find out If pos
sible about them, gave them up. The
latter went home, and the Delaney
Brothers were only remembered when
some reminiscense of them brought
their names before the class of men that
had become acquainted with them and
were associates of theirs in the pioneer
days of the Hills, when to go there wal
to take your life in your W hands.
These men, when they left the Hills,
we're known to have gold dust, and
were otherwise "well fixed'' to go east
and visit their friends, the scenes of
their childhood, and live without hay
ing to earn a livelihood by the sweat of
their brow. But they never returned.
On Monday, Mr.. Richard Erb, a resi-
dent of Golden City, Black Hills, and
a merchant doing business there, but at
present in this city, entered our n
tum, and, after Introducing himself,
asked if We would like to have an item.
1t was exactly what we most needed,
for the water-works question was stale,
fiat and improbable, the rain had
refused TO keep up an excitement for us
any longer, and we we're at a loss to get
up a local of any Importance until Mr..
Erb made his appearance. "This
little bit of paper" proceeded Mr.. Erb,
after he had quietly tucked his legs
away under a chair and settled himself
down to business, ''is the only bit of
paper that 1 have, relating to the
Delaney Brothers. The other papers,
the other fellows took with them to
Deadwood. However, here it is" and
here he drew from his pocket-book a
memoranda he had made of some of
the effects he had discovered on the
deceased. "These are afew notes 1 took
relative to them," an envelope that
once contained a letter that had been
written by Mr.. (p) Olives, (?) of Lar
annie City, and was dated, Custer City,
the 10Th of April, &c. The letter had
been taken on to Deadwood by the
miners proceeding that Way, and merely
contained the information that he sent
this letter by Delaney, who was on his
return. These papers were taken by
w. G. Stevens, who promised to see
that they should be delivered to the
proper authorities. Mr.. Erb stated
that the Indians have been at work, or
it might have been some of those bad
fellows about the Hills at that time
who, knowing they had money, had
followed them, and first murdered and
then robbed them of their gold dust.
He further stated that the remains had
been found, between the Springs,
about eighteen miles this side Of Custer
City, the bones alone remaining of
these unfortunate men, a few patches
of clothing clinging to them, a lariat,
a frying-pan, riddled with bullets, and
the brass stock of a whip handle. The
disposition of the bodies as they lay
together in one of the gulches, gave the
finders the impression that they were
murdered as they slept. Among the
bones of one of the victims was found
naturalization papers, taken out in
Chicago, d., IS well as a homestead
papers, belonging to Michal Delaney.
The date, state and county were, I'M
fortunately, oblitered, but probably the
state was Illinois, and we call the at
tention of our contemporaries in
Chicago to this fact, in the hope that
they will publish the same.
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