The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1902-06-05
Mystery Concernin Identity of
Body Found in Old Mining
Cut Depends.
ODD STORY NOW TOLD
BY ROCKER ROAD MAN
Says Man Answering Description Of
Him Whose Body Was Found Said
That Canadian Officers Were Pur-
suing, and He Was Going Up Into the
Hils-Was He Overtaken by These
Men or Avengers?

Was the man whose body was found in
the abandoned mining cut yesterday the
victim of avengers?
Was he in full fight from them and
seeking safety in the hills, was overtaken
and killed.
Did he speak the truth when he said
that he was fleeing from Canadian officers
or was fleeing from men he knew sought
his life?
These are question that are raised to-
day i'll the minds of those investigating
the mysterious death Of the unknown man.
These questions are brought out and the
mystery is further deepencd by the report
made to the coroner this morning by
man living on the Rocker road.
Today a man living in cabin on the
road between the old Colorado concentra-
tor and Rocker, called at the undertaking
house of Richards 4 Co., to which the
body was taken and by which company it
was buried in Mount Moriah cemetery
later in the day by reason of its condition,
and examined the clothing cut from the
body.
Statement Of Man.
After making the inspection the man
said the coat, hat and vest were those
worn by man who had visited HIM last
Friday, he thought, and related a story
which led to the belief that he was being
hunted by officers for a crime committed
in Canada. As to the pants he would not
be certain, but to his best recollection
they. too, were the ones he had on.
This man was shown the penknife and
other articles taken from the pockets of
the dead man and he at once identified the
penknifc as one he had seen in the pos
session of his visitor. He could not iden-
tify pipe found on the corpse, although
he had seen the man with pipe. His
visitor, he said told him his name was ].
II. Read. but added that the name was an
assumed one.
Pursued by Officers.
1t was said by the fellow that officers
from the Northwest Territory had been
following him from place to place, and he
had been industriously engaged in trying
to avoid them. For what offcnse he was
wanted he did not say but in the course
Of his remarks he asked for drink of
whisky and it was given him.
Before leaving the cabin he told the
occupant he was going into the hills,
but would call OH him again in few
days Since then nothing has been seen
of him. The Rocker road man gave a
complete description of his visitor and
it tailed exactly with that of the body
found in the hills. He even described the
color of his hair and mustachc and the
style of the cut OH the former
III the man does not call at my cabin
again inside OF two days" said he, II
will return to Butte and let you know,
as he promised to come back within two
or three days ! am satisfied that the
body is that Of the man who paid me
the visit"
Is Not O'Brien.
Charles Kaufman and L. c. Virgins,
clerks at the Cash lodging house at No.
IS West Galena street, expressed the be-
lief this morning that the dead man was
either Daniel O'Brien or one Riley, who
formerly made the Cash house their head