Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-09-16

t"e e1Wo evening. we arrived
at the sheep camp of Charles NJ.
Flesk and William Fox abou,
8 o'clock Sunday morning, the Ord
of September. We found q Young
man named Garrett in tho camp.
Some of our party inquired of him
where the body Of dece ased was? He
said he did not know; but that Mr..
Fox had told hin that it was about
300 yards in that direction, pointing
in = southeasterly course from the
Damp. He also said that be had
Looked for the body the day before,
but did not find it. H. l.. Fleak then
asked him where the dog Of deceased
was? He said he did not know: he
had not seen him since he saw him
with Charley. We unsaddled our
horses and turned them out, add asked
him If be would 60 with US and show
us the direction as near as he could
He said he would, and We started.
spreading apart at short distances,
and proceeded in that direction to
distance of about $50 yards from
camp, when the dog before referred to
commenced barking at Us. We oil
supposed, of course, that it was M.
Fleak's dog, so we turned that way.
and MIR Courtney WAS first to discover
the body. He called out. We GEN.
tered to that point and found the body
lying on q hillside slop,ng to the
northeast and q short distance on the
south side Of the belt of dead timber
running down tho hill parallel with
spring branches. The head OF the
body was about ten feet from the
nearest tree, and lying directly to-
ward that tree the body slanting TO
the left or north down the hillside
tie was living face down, perfectly
straight. arms folded across his breast,
his face turned to the left shoulder.
his right cheek resting on tn. ground,
his left instep resting across his right
heel. Had on a vest, striped wooden
shirt, blue overslls, was bare-he AIDED
his hat lying abou. three feet to his
left and, think, little in advance of
his head. His coat was lying about
four feet above his feet, spread out ON
the ground with the lining down.
There was also a Winchester rife
mode '73-iying across under the
breast OF the BODY, with the breech to
the right under the right arm and the
muzzle over the left. Had been
weeds or grass near the body, but the
sheep had it well tramped down
There had been grass growing RICH,
up to the edge of tho timber. In
the timber was quite q heavy
growth of weeds. The sheep had
been all around the body, and up to
the edge of the weeds, but very few
had been through the weeds. On
turning the body over we found his
hands crossed on his breast, the left
hand above, and both hands partly
clenched. The Winchester rifle was
in between bis arms and breast. The
center Of che barrel of the rifle was
about opposite the center of his
breast, which made the butt of the
gun stick out under his right elbow.
we found some empty cartridge shells
about on the eround--some
OF them pretty close to the body, on
the left, and some farther away, out to
a distance OF about eight feet. We
picked up FIVE empty shells, and !
found one empty shell in the barrel,
with three unexploded cartridges in
the magazine. The shells found on
the ground were the same size as those
n the gun.
In the timber I searched for tracks
md also for bullet holes in the trees.
Found no tracks except a scattering
'heep track. No bullet holes in the
rees. All FIVE OF US made aver,
borough search. .
The party locked into the tent Of
deceased. after returning to camp
rom whare the body was found. Nh.
Courtney was the FIRST to go into the
ent. On entering he discovered q
ane or staff from four to five fee,
'ng, shaved out very straight and Ia +