Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-06-30

thus increase their future profits To all
this the partner readily assented, and after
seeing Their boats safely started down the
Missouri they set out across the country tor
La-amie. They finally struck the OLD
overland trail and followed it down the
Platte 10 Jules BsrnaTd's Here they
stopped for several days, and under some
pretext or other, the brother induced hls
PARTNER TO accompany him to the lonely
pass described in the opening lines Of this
story.
Here be disarmed him, tied him securely
/ and informed his victim that he was going
7 TO- Kill him. At first the partner thought
10 was only a Joke, but wnen the brother
produced from his pocket the letter from
+ his mother and read it to him, the guilty
man knew but too well that his time had
come. but the brother only tied MS victim
securely 10 the rock and informed him that
ne must starve TO death.
Fastening back to Demands cabin, who
vas away, he left a note saying that ne
had gone East, and then taking some
+ chains and q hammer which be found IN a
stable near the cabin, returned to the rock.
He forced a collar out OF the chain and
H fastened it about MS victim neck. Then
+ he drove astaple into the rock and fastened
tie chain toit.
WATCHING HIS DYING VICTIM.
This done. be calmly sat down to see
mis- enemy starve On the third day the
partner signed the deed with some pow
4ered ink which the brother had. 1t be-
gueaihed all his property to the injured
g.rl. The brother witnessed 1t, and also
attached an old trapper's name as wit
-1ess The brother then wrote letters for
r bs man 20 sign, saying that he was very
,ll while crossing the plains and was about
IN die These letters were dated on the
p.atte but did not say at what point.
All fb.se documents the brother COM
PEELED bis partner to sign.
d. rbe sixth day the man grew deliri-
Gus and begged 70 be shot, ana day by day
bs became weaker until the tenth day,
when he died 1t is said the brother often
ate in the presence Of his victim, and
broupht water from the spring near by, bat
would not give the sufferer any food and
only little water. Often be would read
over t3 him the letter from the mother to
her son informing him OF his sisters rum.
The door man begged hard to be killed
,t once. OF TO be released; he would make
) sverv restitution in his power for the
rrong be had done, but the brother was
deaf to sll entresties. So it went on until
rbe end came. After his victim was dead
. tbs brother went 10 St. L)uis and found
his sister we'll and In sound mind. Iht
viii of the dead partner was proved anc
the girl and his child became the posses
sors of all his property. The brother tried
10 settle down bat could not
The remembrance OF that awful rocH
haunted him day and night, ana after
year of vain endeavor 10 fad surcesse tson
sorrow, be made a will giving everything
10 his mother and sister, and once more
ded 90 the wild mountains There h'
lived for ten years, never once again com
ing East, and was daally wounded by In
dams while ont hunting. and died IRON
,he effects Of bis wounds. II vas on hi
s deathbed be related the story OF his life tC
Muggins Taylor, who told it to me on the
Yellowstone by a campfire one night i
1876. inst before Custer was massscred
BY those who knew him Muggins Taylor
J word could not be- doubted