The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-03
WASHINGTON
BURIED IN HIS YARD
Mystery Of Henry Larague's Dis
appearance Solved in Part by
Discovery Of the Body.
His Wife Also Thought to Have
: Allotted the Removal" of a
Former Husband.

Pomeroy, Wash, March 3-The culmi-
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rible crime was unearthed here, when the
body of Henry Lartigue, who has been
missing since September last. was found
in hole in his own dooryard in his ranch
twelve miles north. on Deadman creek.
His wife. SO years Of age, is in the sheriff s
hands, charged with the murder.
Sixteen years ago Newton Estes, an old
settler and well-to-do cattleman, died a
few minutes after eating dinner under
circumstances pointing to foul play. . Be-
married Harry Lartigue, ranch foreman
Of her late husband. twenty years her
junior. Both removed to the old Estes
homestead in this county. Lartigue was
inclined to be reckless fellow. 49,
Lartigue and wife did not live happily
together and after many violent quarrels
Lartigue announced his intention of leav-
he sold off several hundred dollars Of per-
sonal property to provide the necessary
funds. even buying the trunk to pack his
belongings in
Appointment Never Kept.
Lartigue was last seen alive in Septem-
Der last. at Gould City, a postoffice near
the farm. where he made an appointment
with Dee Young. a, rancher, to go stock
hunting the next day, before lie was finally
Estes ranch to stay for the last time. The
next day Young looked in vain for Larti-
que. Days passed and still he did not
come to keep his appointment. When
questioned as to where LartiEue was, his
wife said he had left as he had intend.
ed to. a-t. - - - ~ "~
Neighbors finally grew so inouisitiye
that Mrs. Lartigue volunteered the infor-
nation that Lartigue had gone to Homo
iulu where a sister lived. but, a letter
written by the officers to the sister elic-
lted the information that Lartigue had
never arrived. Soon after this the Off
GERS intercepted a letter from the sister
to Mrs. Lartigue inquiring of the where.
abouts of her brother whom she said she
mad not heard from for six months Close
on the heels of this a letter came from
the sister at Honolulu, inclosinE another
letter from I.artigues wife, in which the
wife stated that Lartigue had fled from
nome under the charge of horse stealing
and that the officers would look for him
on his arrival at Honolulu, and for the
sister to write them that he had ACTUALLY
started for that place, but had died OF
the voyage, thus stopping further search.
! detective was put on the case in tn,
suise Of a land hunter, who shadowed al
movements at the homestead One da,
Mrs Estes was lured to Pomeroy and tn,
house searched in her absence, disclosin;
the presence of Lartigues underc1othes
revolver and rifle and other belonging
which he would naturally have taken will
him. D.. :-
Buried Near the Door.
Inch by inch the coil of circumstance
1 frightened about the suspected woman Al
needed to make it complete was the find
q ing of the body. So strong was the cas-
ieonsidered, that, this morning the officer
went to the ranch and accused Mrs. Lar
, tigue openly of the crime and brought he
to town under arrest leaving Deput
Sheriff Hawkins on the place to pick u
! more evidence. This officer began on
, more search for the body, and within thre
hours after their departure found it burie
> in a hole not forty feet from the hous
door, with the saddle that the dead ma
had intended to ride away on crowded o
top Of it.
Two theories are held Of the crime On
is that Lartigue and wife and Charlie
, Estes are all three connected with tn
! sudden and suspicious death Of Newto
Estes and the murder Of one Jasper Mil
in such an intimate relation that it wou]
be extremely perilous to allow Lartigu
to get beyond their control where thes
y dark secrets might be divulged. The othe
theory is that Lartigue had been robbi11
- his wife Of her property and went bac
to the place for the purpose Of gettir
hold OF more Of it, but that the woma
was madly infatuated with him.. and,
the mingled passion Of hate and love, con
e mitted the deed.