The Red Cloud chief., 1889-06-07
H,llMAM FOUND.

tisllMAN FOUND.
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Discovery q tAs 010psssA 0sr4eesA
AaaeAs lnsae1oee vssAkss 1Aas YIN -
1oexKA Kaa-, Nay A-HAsisng search
h ove1, . Fugitive - bsen ioa1A md -.
rested md a Cd crime partially ~.
vsalsA bat ieavss snosAss mysassioos die.
appeafaDeo aAA - ankDoWn d0adD nan .
b explai1od anA oeeoanssd f..
JOIN ". Hi ma whose supPoosd ~
mains were fo0nd % Crooked 0osk. in
Barber Coa1ty. Shot through tAs As.A.
has just bsea arrested nsaf To0hstooA.
A. T.. where he had beea voting in .
nine, aad ]. u Ail1r. who haA bsen q
his track for eight long year, 10 earned
Ais reward Of $1,000
4 dispatch was received last evening
from b J. Franklin, formerly special
agent Of he Santa Fe, requesting G b
Gseed 20 c requisition papers upon
the Governor Of Arlsona for the body OF
]. ". Hillman. Who was o under arrest
awaiting proper authority % Be returned
to Kansas where his name has become
famous because Of the three long trials in
which bis wife claimed from b Mutual
Lie Insurance Company q New York.
the New York Life Insurance Company
and the Connecticut Mutual Lie
Insurance Company, the aggregate sun
OF $1,000 which be had placed
On his life . short time before his
supposed death. and the bringing TO Law
renee Of his dead body. which vas recos-
ni1ed BY more than forty witnesses under
a:h as that Of the dead John v. HILL.
man
The insurance companies refused 20 pay
the policies declaring that the body VA
NOT that of HiIlnAn. but the tody OF some
man murdered for the sole purpose OF OBJ
tanning the $s3 600.
Pending the frs: suit . reward Of SO.
90 Vas offered BY the companies for the
arrest Of Hi!lman. which reward they
pledged the good faith Of the companies
TO pay whenever hem missing man was AZ
rested
Eight years aga J. Il Miller, then .
resident OF Lawrence, who. being vel &C.
Quainsed with ailiman and refusing -
acknowledge the dead body As that Of the
man claimed. COMM .nced his weary
search. Knowing HIilman to have been
Q miner q well rs Q casteman, &c natur.
Ally sought the mountainous country OF
the West as the most natural retreat o&
such . man. Going 70 the mining coun.
tries lie worked first in one camp and then
another always with one end in view, The
capture OF the missing man, Who, IL
found, would also be Q murderer. working
frs, n mining then as tie cnoppins for
the Santa Fe. never long in q place
Miller rua down every possible c!ew.
many times disappo nced. bot never dis.
couraged and never changing his belief
that. the Rockies held the man wanted BY
justice, and whose reveaIment would
hiring him 81. 90
AiIIer's face became . familiar M IN
all the camps Of Colorado. New Mexico
Arizona, Old Mexico and more Northern
Territories In this search b. was aided
~ times BY NJ. Frlnktia, who shared his
belief TIA: HiIiman vas still alive
Two years ago Miller saw and Identified
his man. ana immediately asked Tor .
reQuisi,ion 20 Be sent 70 him Toe nsces.
sary papers were issued and after soms
delay . man was sent vita them, but Hill.
man had reeogni ssd his former neighbos
and again disappeared
In 10 wise discouraged Miller again
eomnsnced Q search and last week again
found his man, this time securing hin and
remaining with him while Franklin went
on for the papers Franklin will arrive
here TO-DAY. and viii Immediately
star back for the man Who 50 nearly wore
out three judges and three jnries and
n~umberless lawyers and Witnesses and
whose wife has since remarked
Narca ls.1s.9. according 70 evidence.John
Brown AID John Hililnan went into Gang
on Crooked creek. in Barber County, be-
ing On their way to Texas Brown weat
for q farmer named BriIey. Who returned
With Brown who had notified him
Of tie killing. He found Wagon
and . camp Ere about twelve fest
apart and rear the fire VA . man vhe
had bsen shot, the ballet firm . 44-eaiibss
gun had entered the skull one and . hall
inches above and one inch In front Of the
andisory neaSus On the right side and had
passed out On the LETT side inch above
the eaI. The feet Of the body
were toward the IRE and the bead VA
supported O . few fagosk TIE dead
mans Las was burning in the Aansa
Brow said TIE dead man was Hiiiman.
and in taking his gun out Of the wagon
in preparing for bed. hs (Browp) had
caught the hammer On the wagon box %
. blanket and the gun had bsen dis
charged he heard . groan, he turned
and saw HiIlmAn stAgger and start &C
tall and running TO him caught him md
swung him around away from the Gre He
then took . horse and went for the nearest
IA mel.
The follow ing morning Mr.. Paddock,
the justice Of b peace held IN inquest
after which the body was carried to Xedi.
cine Lodge where another inquest VA
he'd After the second inquest the body
Was buried and Brown and Levi Baldwin
and Alva Baldwin had brought material
TO fence il when Major Theodore Use.
and Nj. T~i.Iirghast insurance
agents, Of Lawrence, arrived and insisted
on exhumi ing the body for Identification
From the hour that disinsermens took
plae. Walker. Wiseman and TIIlingaass
have beea sure the body vas not Hillman.
Lew Baldwin has said it MAS Hiiiman.
Brown. who is the only person who can
know, has sworn both that il
was and that it Was not while Alvs
Baldwin, brother Of Levi Baldwin. and
one Of the most intimate aequaintances OF
Eiilman, has never appeared in court
Ire dead body was taken to Lawrence
badly deeomposed XrA Hillman hes;.
tafed q % whether she should 20 md see
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