, 1888-07-15
P%ATTERSON'S TRIAL.
The Testimony Being Taken in
the Case.
A Synopsis of What Was Proven
Yesterday.
An Eminent Scientist With Several
Skeletons.

The Patterson murder case was again
taken up in the district court TOR consid,
Grafton and Hon. 7. M. Patterson con-
tinued his opening statement and dwell
at some length on what the testimony
would show.
Jack Thurman was the first witness
called oil the part of the prosecution and
he testified to finding the clothing belong
ing to Tin Hat" (James McElhone) on
or about the LIST of December, 1884, in
Muskrat canyon, but did not at that time
look for or discover the skeleton. Two
or three days later he returned to the
same place, at which time the skeleton
was found lying face down with a pair of
blue ~overalls on, a blue shirt with a hand
kerchief around the neck. The coat and
hat were some distance away, with a stone
on top of them and a -four sack, which
contained a coat and vest with some other
articles of clothing and part of an old
newspaper, was found near a bunch of
bushes near the side of the canyon.
The next witness for the territory was
Henry Chase. He was foreman of the
coroner's jury which held an inquest on
the remains. and he also gave a minute
description of the canyon, the clothing,
the situation of the skeleton when found,
and related that there were two bullet
holes through the skull. There was
some flesh on the lower extremities of
the skeleton, and one foot-the right one
was in a fair state of preservation. A.
ID. Gambell was present at the inquest as
a witness and said he believed that the
skeleton was hat of his son Seth Gam
bell, and stated further that his son had
a scar on one of his feet and on examina
ton they found a scar corresponding to
the one he had described. Some red
hair was found and Gambell said that was
about the color of his sons hair. Mr..
Chase stated that the canyon was not
such as could be driven through with
wagons, but that horsemen could go
through it without much difficulty and
that there were frequently hunters, cow
boys and others along in hat vicinity and
that occasionally, as he thought. people
would pass through there on their way to
Hartville and elsewhere.
As only a portion of the skeleton was
in the court room, Mr.. Patterson de-
handed that the balance Of it be pro-
duced, as he wished to examine Mr..
Chase concerning it.
The court thought the request should
be granted.
Mr.. Stoll here explained that some
portions of the skeleton had been sent to
an eminent scientist Whose name was
not given) who will be here before to-
morrow morning. The ''Tin Hat skele.
ton had been by this scientist boxed up
with several others in such a way that
they could not get mixed, and sent back
to Cheyenne, and he did not desire to
disturb them until the scientist arrived.
MIR. Patterson thereupon withdrew his
request Tor their production at that time
of the balance Of the bones.
AT last evenings session Jack Murphy
was on the stand. He was also one of
the members of the coroner's jury which
held the inquest, and his testimony was
substantially the same as that given by
the two preceding witnesses. Mr.. Muir
ply, however, was the first one to actual
ly discover the skeleton.
The canyon where the remains were
found is now called Dead Mans Can
yon," and is about four miles from Raw
hide Buttes.
Court adjourned until the usual hour
tomorrow morning-the jury in the
meantime being OF course kept together
at the court house.