The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-07
THE MYSTERY is SOL we'd
A Dead Dog Found at the Bottom
of the Isele Shaft.
WAS KILLED BY SOME BOYS
And Now People Want to Know What
Kind of Hop Detective Murphy
Is Smoking-Ladder Was
Not Broken.

Sheriff Regan unraveled the Isele
SO doing spoiled one of the finest pipe
dreams City Detective jerry Murphy
ever had. Sunday a couple of men
found some blood stains near the shaft
of the Isele mine and thinking MUIR
der might have been committed sent
Henry Gallagher to town to report the
find. The facts were communicated to
City Detective Murphy and that official
promptly proceeded to have a dream. In
it he saw all the dark dstails of a ter
rible crime which had been hidden by
the body of the murdered being thrown
down the shaft. But the dream broke
off before the body was discovered and
was to have been resumed yesterday
and probably would have but for the
fact that Sheriff Regain got ahead Of
him.
Detective Murphy revealed his dream
to the newspapers about as follows: He
dreamed ne engaged a livery rig and
drove alone to the scsna of the supposed
murder There he found the telltale
blood stains They commenced about
80 feet from the shaft and led straight
up to the collar. where there was a large
pool of dried blood. Beside it laid a
white shirt, but there were no blood
stains on it, The murdered man had
doubtless taken it off before permitting
himself to be killed to avoid selling it.
Detective Murphy got on the ladder
and went down the shaft "a feet ex-
aiming the shaft by means of lighting
matches. AT this point Of the dream the
ladder was broken and he could go no
further, and he ascended, resolving to
get appliances and resume the search
yesterday.
But yesterday Sheriff Regain, accom-
panied by Deputy Sheriff Aware, drove
out to the mine to do a little investigat-
ing for themselves. They went prepared
to descend to the bottom of the shaft
with a rope from the point where the
ladder was broken and, as Detective
Murphy had not done, had provided
themselves with candles to light their
way. They were not little surprised
to find the ladder in perfect condition,
without break and as strong as any
they had ever gone up or down. They
were not lo7g in reaching the bottom CT
the shaft. where they found the carcass
of a dead dog that had been killed and
thrown down the shaft. From some
that the dog had been killed by some
boys a few days before. When the
sheriff and his deputy reached the shaft
they first looked about for the bloody
track leading for 80 feet up to the shaft.
but were unable to find it, but did find
the pool of blood at the collar so that
part of the dream was all right.
The sheriff's discovery with regard to
the ladder gave rise to numerous con-
lectures as to how Detective Murphy
found it broken. Some thought it might
be accounted for by that marked PEE
culiarity of dreams where one walks rs
up at the most interesting point. leav-
ing the last circumstances of the vision
so wildly impressed on ones mind that
one really believes what he saw in the
dream was true. Others think Detec-
tive Murphy's dream was misleading
and had reference to some other shaft
where there might be broken ladder,
and that another Well-knoWn popularity
of dreams, that which confuses things
together which are really apart from
one another, got this other shaft with
the broken ladder mixed with the blood
stains at the 1sGle. Still others are I'M
kind enough to assert the belief that