Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-05-07

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gone. He returned the following day, and
at Olema arranged with Dryer and his COM
panion, who had gone up Tuesday afternoon,
for still more thorough search of
THE WILLOW COVERED BANKS
of the stream, and of the dense underbrush |
Of the deeply wooded hills between which it
flowed. Coming on to San Francisco to i'm
part to the agonized wife the meager in
he had SO far obtained, he again re-
turned by Friday mornings boat and train to
Marin county. When within about quarter
was slowed up by the train
ance possible to the searchers, to enable Jos.
G. Wilson to get aboard. Wilson informed
Lane that his party, consisting of himself and
three others, had just few minutes previously
found the murdered body of Rieger. The
four men had that morning started in
at the creek where Rieger started,
and followed its banks up past Tocoloma
station, and to distance of about two and
half miles from Olema and about mile
and half from Nelson's ranch. At this
point the valley narrows into gorge, SO
that the country wagon-road constructed
along the base of the densely wooded hills
on one side of the stream, and the railroad
graded into the foot of the hills on the
other side, are only about 300 feet apart,
with the willow hidden stream between.
Here all being on one side, Evans, who had
broken boots on, proposed that to save his
feet from wetting they should cross over to
the other side. They did so, and had
scarcely pushed their way through the dense
brush more than 200 feet, when Evans
GAME UPON THE BODY,
stretched oat on its back in two or three
inches of sipage water from the creek, in
little hole just long enough to hold it, be-
tween two thick clumps of willows, the tops
of which met above it so as to conceal it
from any but the most immediate view.
Over the body, the legs and feet of which
were bare, several logs of driftwood, some
of them the thickness of mans body, had
been laid, in a hasty attempt at additional
concealment. Lane left the train at Olema
and Immediately telegraphed to j. M. Wins
low, the father-in law of Rieger, of the find
ing of the murdered body; to w. B. Lyon,
secretary of the Grand Lodge of Odd Eel
lows, to dispatch detectives; and to the
sheriff and coroner of Marin, for their pres
ence. Having sent boy to meet the
coroner and conduct him to the place
where the body lay, Lane and others pro-
ceeded to it. At 4:3O o'clock the body was
reached, The stiff black hat, the long gum
boots, the diagonal pants, the gold watch
and chain and symbol of the Ancient Order
of Workingmen, all valued about $3.50. and
Rieger's money, believed to be about ten
dollars in silver, had been stolen. The
sleeve buttons, shirt studs, a finger ring and
and an Odd Fellows symbol had not beer
removed. The bait box, found at the end of
a little spit of sand around which the creek
curves, forming pool promising of trout
and about ten feet from the thick brush IL
which the body wss found, is believed t.
mark the spot where the unsuspecting fish
or man was shot down by
THE MURDERER hid IN THE BUSHES.
One of Reiger's arms, which was lying OK
tended backward from the shoulder, evldenc
ed that his murderer had thereby drawn hin
into the bushes where he was found. hi
pipe and lunch basket were found together
little distance from the creek, aud his broke
fishing rod was thrust into the thick brus]
on the hillside back of him. DR.. Shaftel
son of ]. Mem. Shafter, the owner of tn
land on which the murder was done, an
who with his brother, Payne J. Shafter, wa
present, examined the body and found tina
he had been shot five times, th
bullets hitting him in the left bac
just about the termination of the rit
and all close together. -Four of them ha
passed entirely through him and could ne
be found, but the fifth, after passing throug
his body, chung to the lapel of his YES
where it had come out. Lane had the san
washed from the body, and the coroner i'm
I paneled jury from those present and pre-
9 ceeded to take the preliminary steps towar
! the required inquest into the cause of dealt
The body was then taken to Olema Station
: where Lane had it as carefully prepared a
under the circumstances, it could be, an
stated.