The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1893-09-22
THE virginia MYSTERY.
No Clue Yet Found to Aid In
Its Solution.
TRAGEDY OF LONG AGO.
Different Theories Advanced as to the
Identity of the Remains-The Sup
posed Murderer of Addie Gilmour
Arrested Cholera Spreading.

VIRGINIA CITY, Sept. 2l.-No clew
has yet been obtained whereby the
identity of the woman can be traced
whose skeleton was found lying
under the carcass of a horse at the
bottom of the Monarch mine shaft in
Silver City yesterday. That the
skeleton is that of young woman is
conceded by all who have examined
the skull, the perfect, small and sound
teeth in both jaws denoting they are
those of youthful persnn. A close
inspection of the dress shows that the
front part of the corded waist is lined
with chamois skin. A heel, the only
relic of one of the shoes worn by de-
ceased, is the size of silver quarter
dollar at the bottom. The dirt re-
moved from the shaft in exhuming
the skeleton is moist, and when dried
will be carefully inspected for the
purpose of ascertaining if it contains
rings or other articles of jewelry.
Everything indicates the remains
have been lying undiscovered in the
shaft for years. The shaft was sunk
thirty years ago to a depth of % feet,
and was never disturbed again until
the present relocators began clearing
it out last week. The shaft is located
on the western slope of a range of hills
forming a divide between the old
wagon road leading to Dayton and the
American Flat wagon road to Car
son. The shaft is about nine feet
broad at the mouth and is thirty
yards below the summit of the hill.
There is an old wagon road leading
across the divide, which is used in
winter when the Gold canyon road
leading to Dayton is impossible. The
supposition is that the woman found
in the shaft took this route, but
missed the course OF the wagon road
and the horse she was riding tum bled
into the shaft while descending the
hill. None of the residents of Silver
City or adjacent towns have any
recollection of the sudden or mysteri-
ious disappearance OF a woman from
their vicinity at any time during the
past thirty years.
Charles Tobener, Gold Hill sa-
loon proprietor, relates that about
twenty years ago the wife of a hotel
keeper at Huntsmans, station on
the wagon road near Lake Tahoe,
ouarreled with her husband, and
mounting horse rode away in the
direction of Genoa, Douglas county,
and was never heard of afterward.
Mr.. Tobener has forgotten the name
of the man whose wife disappeared,
but says she was about forty five
years of age, which is more than
twice the number credited to the re-
mains found.
Dan De guile, the well-known
Comstock journalistic writer, who
was editor of the local department Of
the Territorial Enterprise for thirty
and before his connection with that
paper furnished it with Silver City
items, of which he was a resident
from 1859 to 1861, does not remember
recording the unexplained disappear
ance of woman at any time during
all those years. He says the remains
found may be those of a resident of
one of the early Mormon settlements
in the Carson valley, who was escap-
ing from the clutches of some old
polygamist who was bent upon marry
ing her. He thinks the publication
of the fact of the finding of the skele-
ton will eventually lead to the identi-
fication OF the remains being ascer-
tained.
A large number of persons have