Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1895-06-06
stolen Balloon Found.

letter from ALI Doten, its Carson cor
Respondent, under the date OF June
4th
The foundations Of the Capital city.
we're upheayed by an earthquake
again this afternoon by the sudden
Eand unexpected discovery of lot of
Icrude bullion concealed in the barn of
William Pickler for many years acting
IN the responsible capacity of Deposit
Meter at the Carson Mint,
"Mr. Picker was 30 employed under.
1.-THE Garrard superintendancy, going
out with Garrard and was subsequent.
lly Carson City policeman for a
couple Of years, going back into. the
Emint when Adams came in as Super
intendent. He has been residing in
the south part Of town west of the
Briggs House couple of blocks, liv-
ling with Flo, Stewart the same as
man and wife, and a little boy seven or
Eeight years OF age which they had
adopted. This little boy was the
cause Of all the trouble. They had
quarrel about the ownership of the
9boy last Sunday in which Picker
struck her and also struck a woman
who interfered, This other woman
f,had him arrested and it cost him $40.
In consequence of threats he has since
Imade, his wife swore out a warrant
to-day and put him under bonds to
keep the peace
aHe having obtained possession of
1.-THE boy, his wife then concluded to be
avenged for all his alleged bad treat
ment of her, declaring that she could
land would send him to State Prison.
She applied to the proper authorities
! this afternoon, search warrant was
issued and detectives raided the Pick.
Z Ter domicile for bullion which she
swore he had stolen from the mint
from time to tune and concealed there.
They searched the house throughout
and last of all found the bullion right
where she told them it was, hidden be-
meath manure pile in the barn
which was close by the house.
ain an interview with the lady at
house whore she has been stopping
since her break with Pickler she free
| ly told me the locality of the bullion.
/ Said she, @you say they are search
ing but haven't found it, but they will,
they can't help it," And they did less
| than half an hour later.
! aShe said Picker had been in the
habit of bringing home pieces of the
crude bullion from his first employ
4 mont in the mint down to the present
time, or within the last two or three
weeks. Her description of its charac.
ter could not be mistaken, it was sim
ply retorted amalgam or crude bull
ion in it's rough state as received from
the mills or reduction works for melt.
ing into bars.
3She said at one time in Garrard &
administration he had sent a lot of this
crude gold and silver bullion by his
brother, L. A. Pickler, to San Fran.
cisco, where he sold it, amounting to
about 81, coo. 1t was taken from their
residence and she saw and knew all
about it. This could be traced, as
the brother. was out in Montana at a
place called Vale or something SINH.
lar. All this same story she told in q
very straightforward manner to othe,
tbesidesmyself, and the bullion found
is quite corroborative, to say the
least.
~Tbis rough, rugged gold and silver
J. metal is in pieces of all sorts of shapes
from the size and thickness Of boys
hand, down to small stuff in sack
the hole-weighirg ten and quarter
pounds. Sheriff Kinney has it in hi
safe. Meanwhile. Picker mingled
freely with the excited crowd in front
OF the county building, looking conf
dent and smiling and at the present
writing Is waiting for the problem tc
be decided as to who among the civil