Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-05-24

reward offered for an incura6le case.
ready described He was. OF course, horror
stricken When be found that Ia had ciine
In contact With u huinun body. uud called
10 LIS companion. Together they exnniined
1t carefully ard with g-eat interest. Ihry
were of COURSE. thoroughly convinced that
It was q genuine human badly; that TIE
man had either died there Or had died come
where clse and n,su placed there ~ ir's ,1,l,
he Lad been murdered somewhere IN The
cogntfy taken there and hidden away Ia
the cave, and that they We're the nrst TO
discover this ghustly evidence Of the crime
They returned 10 town, reported their nnd'
aud the news created great excitement
The next day a large party went out with
q farm wagon aud several carriages, TO brng
IN tho body They arrived late at night
ard at daylight the next morning the house
uf one " the carpenters was besieged by
hundreds OF men, women and children anh-
inus TO get glimpse OF the wonderful piece
Of hninnn stntuary. liut few people were
admitted 10 the house. however aud the
others were told that the body would soon
be on exhibition Mp town. Soon after sun
rise phoicgtgpher who yrs on good ierms
got permission to make photograph Of H.
Meantime one q, l.. Traber, a friend OF
cnatcs, appeared on the scene nailed up
rude pine box and brought 1t TO the house.
when the body WIS loaded on dry and
driven Ia u vncHut store rooui. on one or
the principal streets Here the lind was
over 500 WAS taken IN before noon
Meantime, certain skeptlcs who had seen
petrlncatiou. but that II had been mHnutac.
tured Out or whole cloth, or rather out OF
Portland cetucnt. An Investigation was
started. and on Inquiry at the local railway
oiHce. il was found Inst a box weighing
900 pounds, shipped from Los Angeles. Cal,
billed ~ stAtunry. and couslgncd 10 George
l.. Trailer. carpenter, had been received nj
the station aud delivered to him only
week before the discovery. II wus also
leurncd that Trahc and two other men with
a wagon had Cullrd for the ho1 aud taken
1t out or the freight depot one night after
dirk, tunChmau living between Eddy
and the cave. came into town, heard the
news aud said that three men with a farm
wagon containing box had passed his
house going west one morning ut daylight
about week ngo.
A local newspaper reporter obtained from
thc freight agent copy Of the bill OF lad
ing, called uu Mr., Tabor, showed II to him
and asked him what IL meant Trnber hest
mted, stammered aud said!
oh ycs; that was my kit " tools"
an, Then, said the reporter why was 1t
Traber statnmered some more and said
We'll you see, that was done so that
tue freight would not cost me 70 much;
rate on statuary is a good deal higher than
on hardware or carpenters tools.
l., lrsesr became eSceedihgy lncomiorta-
get the reportcr 70 tidk about something
clsH. hut falling. excused himself and slip
ped out Of the back door leaving the fruit
door wide open. The show had become a
frer.fUr.ull and everyone who cared TO
look ut the stin walked in aud looked. The
reporter then went to look for Doll. the
partner IN the discovery, and, on being In.
tcryewed, he claimed to know nothing Of
The body. except that he helped to aud It
In the cave
A week later the craven image snraked
ont Mt the buck door Of the store room,
climbed Into a wagon with Coates ON the
box and was driven away ACROSS the Stuled
ulNluH mo 'IuNuH Within IA "A
newspaper printed In 1ulia, Tex, was re-
ccived here containing glowing accounts Of
petrilrd human body that was on eGhi-
billion there which had been discovered in
The Guadalupe mountains In New Mexico,
and which had created an Intense excite
mcnt among the people, a local syndicate
hal been FORMED and had bought the body
ilom Tue intrepid muuntninecr, Coates, who
had discovered H. II WAS to he exhibit.
then sent to the Worlds fair our locnl
newspapers ridiculed the Texans who had
been dnpyd, aud sent marked copies 10 the
ehtors Ut the papers In Iulln. However,
the stone man had again taken MP the
line Of march aud was next heard ~ In
Gr ,nesyillc, Tex, where he had again
changed hnnds NJ the snug price " Sow.
Meantime he had been examined by some
on the best biologists ~ the state, bv prom
lncnt physiciai4 aud others. who pronounced
him veriiuht case Of pctrihcAtion, Fur
thcrmoro, young woman. claiming to be a
cousin or the Younger boys, Ind Identified
the body, beyond all question, us that ut
the junior member Of that uoted gang who
she said had taken refuge in the Gandanpc
| mountains sune years ago when pursued
| by officers of the law, and had never since
| hecn heard Of. She knew the body by three
| distinct marks thereon, nud snid she would
| have Known II II Ahe Ind met IL ON The
| street on p ,lurk Ulght Tho new syndicuic
| was 70 e2hihlt tho body IN several towns
nnd cities Of Texas, rounding M In Austin
| whore II was To be examined by the stntr
| ge0logst whn would, ~ course endorse Il
| ~ the other scientists hnd done. From there
| II wAs 10 he shlpped to Chicago / have
| not heard ~ Mr. Younger since but prr
| sums he X now lying la Htntp somewhere
| Adiaccui ~ Jackson park, and Is hcinr cazod
| upor 10y the eager multitude at 80 much a
gaze.
| Coates hns never since shown himself I'm
! Eldy, and within u frw days after Inc *.
| pnsurc ~ the fraud, Doll aud Titlhcr dis.
| appeared, the formpr leaving several cred.
| tors In mourn his departure. II has since
| he''i learned that the pctrined man was
| manufactured by an Italian IN Los AngpIes
| cal, who makes Cardiff giants and other
/ nudcrn wonders ia order aud sells them 10
| adyeuhrets, who take them out, hide Them
| In out 9f tho way places then "discoyrr''
| and exhibit them, 'pctriued innn" ia
| found somewhere IN the Mpston states or
| territories about once q month on an aver.
| age mud THIS nng Of business will no tOubt
| y" prnhtahle ny long NJ suckers continue To
| be born INTO 'hc world.