The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-06-03
THE HAMILTON CASE
j. d. Sargent DenOunces the
Cruel RumOrS
THAT ROBERT Ray is NOT DEAD
A Woman in Boulder, Colo, Whips Her Child
TO Death-The Logan County, Ida,
Grand Jury is Illegal.

IDAHO FALLS, Ida, via Eagle Rock, Ida,
June Especial telegram to The HER
AID The first of last month special ap-
peared from Cheyenne giving an interview
with Cooper, guide and trapper, regard
ing the disappearance of Robert Ray
Hamilton, in it claiming it was not his body
that was found but body decomposed- To-
day j. D. Sargent, chum OF Hamilton S, ar
rived here from his mountain home and the
article was shown him. This is his first
Eisit to civilization since last fall, and the
numerous rumOrs afioat regarding the
doubt entertained about the death, reached
him on May 81. With this were several
letters from General Hamilton in New
York, requesting Mr.. Sargent TO come to
New York at once and he will leave here IN
q few days. He is taking Joco the bird dog
belonging to Ray, 10 the father by special
request. This is the dog that stayed near
the body during the time it remained in the
water. MIR. Sargent has a map, compiled
by his daughter, showing complete con-
tour of the lake and river where Hamilton
persisted, and there is no island near the
point OF drowning. Mr.. Sargent
said: Il was in Rexburg and
when l returned went in search
, of Hamilton at the point where he went to
cross the river. The bed is covered with
kind of sea grass, and at night this would
look like shallow water, but the water was
about two fathoms deep, and jumping of
from high bank threw him off his horse,
and both began TO swim, when Rays horse
became tangled in the sea grass and he was
;. A.
At the north side of the lake Sargent has
his residence. while his stable and range
are on the opposite side sixteen miles, and
to travel between the two points boat is
used. AT the stable Hamilton left note to
Sargent telling him he had gone around
with an antelope. The horse and dog
crossed over right at the outlet of the lake
into Snake river. When the horse was
found he was grazing and the saddle turned
with the antelope still hanging to the POM
mel, and the cinche had worn the back of
the horse sore. When the body was found
It was not decomposed and the body was as
natural as life, the only wound being at one
corner of the mouth where in his
death struggle he had bit his lip. The
teeth, ears and lair were of snch
popularity that he could be easily disting-
uished among the thousand. For fear there
nigh. be some question raised the body was
placed in wooden box and buried with the
same clothing as found, including the spurs.
4 One limb was broken in New York years
ago but had never been completely joined,
so it was easily identified Sargent says it
was no ones business and the numerous
Hbelers would be severely dealt with by
General Hamilton and himself on reaching
New York city. He condemns all the
papers publishing an account of the doubts
and says the reports were started by parties
wishing notoriety, and the body was not
shipped to New York owing to the expense
it would involve. He says ranchers living
near him who are assisting in circulating
these reports are doing so with the object
of getting the remains taken up and shipped
east if they can make several hundred
dollars in bringing them to this point for
shipment.