The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-08-04
SUBTERRANEAN SPLENDORS
VIEW OF THE WONDERFUL CAVERN
NEAR SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.

San Antonio (Tex.), July 3
Another chapter in the Robbers
Cave romance was read to-day. 1t
has been the intention to officially
explore the cave ever since the dis
covery of portions OF skeleton,
which was identified as that of Frank
Harris. Harris was q young man
living in tue Helotes neighborhood,
who was hand in glove with the
Pitts-Brannon gang of outlaws. He
was in love with Melissa Scott, who
subsequently married Pitts, the
leader of the gang. There was much
existent jealousy between Harris
and Pitts, and the former suit was
disapproved by the SCOTS, father
and son.
On the 10Th of September, 1884,
Harris was seen in company of the
two SCOTS and Pitts. He was never
seen again. On the discovery of his
bones in the cave the SCOTS, who
were charged with his murder, saw
a chain of circumstantial evidence
riveted to them which, it is stated,
they will have hard work in break
ing.
While officers have been prepar-
ing to explore Harris tomb, Justice
Boerner of the Helotes Precinct has
been carrying on a private investi-
cation on his own account. He has
kept his own counsel and gone ahead
steadily with his work. To-day he
showed up at the courthouse, look
ing mysteriously important and
carrying under his arms bulky
package done up in wrapping paper.
The officers gathered around him,
and, like peddler with his pack, he
spread out his CHASTITY wares.
They were bones, and human
bones, comprising portions of bad
ly fractured skull, broken ribs etc.,
being most of the missing links in
the dead Harris dead personality.
Near the skeleton was found heavy
quirt, or riding whip, with lead
weighted handle. 1t may have
been the property of the dead man,
or may have been used in hammer
ing out his brains. The ribs were
doubtless broken in forcing the
body down the very narrow chute,
which, from an unsuspicious hole at
the top, bends twenty feet down
ward into subterranean cavity,
which, in addition to the CHASTITY in
terests which the Harris death
fasteus upon it, and the fact that it
was for years the refuge of one OF
the most desperate bands of crimi-
mails Texas has ever known, is a
marvel Of natural beauty. There
was no light from above, and all the
exploration was done by torches.
Justice Boerner says that he did not
see il all, does not know how far ii
extends, or what other entrances ii
may have. He, however, went care
fully through three chambers, lost in
the beauties overhead and around
him, and splashing in the pools OF
icy water at his feet. 1t is one OF
the grandest formations of nature
ever discovered by man. The cham,
bers are connected by chiselled
arches, as though legion of work
men had fashionen them. The cell
ings are of great height from the ilool
and the spaces are tremendous in
extent.
In one chamber" said Boerner
"you might stand an army of l0,'
600 men. The most remarkable fac
connected with it is its utter seclu
sion. The unpromising exterior
gives no indication of the marvellous
beauty hidden within. A hole il
the wall, it would be called, by any
one glancing at it. One expansion
of the passage is filled with a score
or more of stalagmites from two tt
ten or twelve feet in height, grouped
as so many monuments of the head
the sides and ceiling are of exquisite