The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-03-18
Indians Under Arrest Re-
 spOnsible for Murder.
PURSE OF GOLD FOUND
One Hundred and Twenty Dollars Found in the Dead Mans Pocket Which His Indian Murderers Had Overlooked.

The adjourned inquest on the bodies Of Bert Horton and hIs wife Florence, who were murdered by Indians on Oct. 24th. was continued yesterday at the office of Commissioner Sehlbrede, but only formal testimony was taken and the verdict of the jury was also only formal one.
 Deputy Marshal Tanner told how Mir. Sessions came 10 him week before last and told of the missing Hortons and that an Indian had confessed to having killed q white man and woman. Afterward, the Indian referred to, Jim Hanson. or Qualth. gave himself up and confessed. Hanson was taken before the United States com missioner ani told how the killing was done and the party who were with him at the time.
 Hanson said that a party of Indians started out on hunt for his brother and family, who were supposed to have been drowned. They came to the place where Mr. and Mrs Horton were, aed there Han son shot Mr. Horton and an Indian called Hard Working Jim, or Kitehikoo. shot Mrs. Horton. Hanson stated that others Of the party helped to bury the bodies.
 The deputy marshal then went on 10 state how he took posse down to Haines and arrested six prisoners, and how on the next day the party went to the scene of the killing and disinterei the bodies, as already told in the DAILY ALASKAN.
 As to the Identification of the bodies the deputy marshal stated that in a pocket book found on the body of Mr. Horton was a note of hand from Katie Cunning ham, and an agreement with Horton and her as to the Summit restaurant, and a bill of sale therefor. Also receipt to Horton from G. A. Braekett for s75, for the metal boat in which Horton and his wife went away for the pleasure trip from which they never returned. The gun belonging to Horton he found had been sold bv Han son at Smithson's second hand store on Broadway.
 Horton's gold watch and two rings be- longing to Mr. and Mrs. Horton he found when he arrested Hard Working Jim, in Jm's house at Chilkat.
 So far as Hanson's confession went, he had found everything as stated therein with the exception of Mrs. iorton's throat b:ing cut. This he claimed he knew noth- ing about. nor in fact, anything about her being shot or the man who shot her.
 Commissioner Sehlbrede then testified as to the confession and the two trips he had made down the canal with the mar shal in regard to the matter. After telling how he had shot Mr. Horton and how Kitehkoo had shot Mrs. Horton, Hanson had ;old how they took down Horion's tent, packed all the effects in Horton's iron boat and then set it adrift.
 Mr. Sehlbrede then told how Hanson had made this confession before there was any complaint filed against him, and his willingness to accompany the party and aid in the search for the bodies he had helped to bury.
 pr. Moore then testfeed to the wounds on the bodies of the dead that each Of the gunshot wounds was sufficient 10 cause death, and that the ineised wound on the woman's throat was also sufficient 10 cause death.
 The jury then returned a verdict that Mr. and Mrs. Horton had come to their deaths at the hands of Jim Hanson, Kit chlkoo and other Indians.
 The Indians who murdered Horton had taken his watch and what money he had in his pockets, but when Undertaken Peo- pies was preparing the body for burial he found that HoIton was wearing two pair of trousers. and in the hip pocket of the inner pair was a butkskin bag containing sI7o in gold.
 The members Of the Odd Fellows. Knights of Pythias and Woodman of the World, to which orders Bert Horton be- longed, held joint meeting last night at the office of Dr. Keller and made arrange. ments for the funeral of the remains. The services will be held at the Y. N. C. A. rooms at o'clock Monday afternoon. Rev. James G. Cameron, of the Episcopal church. officiating. Each of the three so- cletIes named. which jointly have charge of the arrangements, appointed four of their members to act as pallbearers. An excellent photograph of the deceased is at the Y. N. (. A. rooms.