, 1904-03-28
PACHE'S
sUDY ORDERED SENT FROM HERE
TO FORT COLLINS BY THE
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
Brought to This City Saturday Night
and Turned Over to Undertaken
Stryker-BeIieved Shot Through
Head Was Last of Two Bullets
Fired at the Man.

Tie body OF August Pache, who was
killed by his ~14-year-old son, Louie
Pache. as told in The Republican of
Saturday, was received by Undertaken
Stryker late Saturday afternoon and
taken to his rooms on Third street,
where it was examined. Today, how
ever, on orders from the authorities
at Fort Collins, it was e n to that
place, where an inquest will be held,
the constable in charge of the matter
the day after the killing being unable
to hold an inquest.
Mr.. Stryker stripped the body and
examined the two wounds. He found
LAT two shots had been fired at Pache,
as reported in the telephone messages
to this paper, but that what was I'M
loubtedly the first one fired, the one
in the back, did no harm except bend
the man backward, so that the sec
ond shot, evidently fired in the least
possible time after the first, entered
the mans head, coming out through
the right eye. Mr.. Stryker did not in
cline to the theory advanced by some
that the fatal shot was fired from in
front.
AS the matter appeared to the un-
dertaker, Pache was sitting in a chair
when he was killed. The bullet fired
.nto his back went through his coat
and vest and through the suspenders
ne wore, the point where the two sus-
panders crossed being reinforced with
strips Of leather. This stopped the
force of the ball and it lodged against
the skin in the middle of the back, a
little below the shoulders. In the hole
made by the passage of. the bullet
.nrough the ~suspenders there were. a
number of splinters of wood, possibly
elm. which leads the undertaken to
infer hat Pache was sitting down at
the time. occupying a bow-back chair,
md that the first bullet passed through
this bow-back and against the mans
body. This caused him to throw his
head backward just in time to receive
the second charge, which entered the
top Of the head, nearly in the center
Of the skull and a little back of the
crown of the head. Death was in.
Stdlilulltouo. III uoupl, LIN IdSnG .
body was left where it had fallen for
nearly twenty-four hours.
1t is believed the reports that the
boy notified the coroner at Fort Col
Tins are not correct. He first notified
Constable Stewart, who lives near the
pache ranch. and this officer notified
the Larimer county officials. He took
The boy t. Fort Collins Saturday, Mrs.
tache accompanying them.
There was some difficulty in getting
to bring the body to this
city. Roy Squires, the Sol of Mrs.
Pache by a former marriage, could
not leave his wife. n at last he sue
to bring the body to town.
Mrs. Pache sent a letter to a friend
here in the city, giving some of the de-
tails of the killing, and saying that
she would go with her boy to Fort
and see him through any
trouble.
Word came to Sheriff Cook Satur-
day afternoon hat an inquest would
be held at Fort Collins, but he was
aot given instructions to take charge
Of the body and he had nothing to do
with it. Mr.. Stryker later received
to send it to Fort Collins.
A special to the Denver News from
Fort Collins last night says:
Louis Pache, the 14-year-old boy
who shot and killed his father last
Thursday evening. arrived in Fort Col
Inns tonight at s o'clock. having start
I'd yesterday morning from his noun
tain home on the Laramie river, about
miles west Of this city. The
boy was accompanied by his mother
and was in the informal custody of
one Smith, who had been a member
of the jury in the Justices inquest
held at the scene of the shooting Oh
Friday. The verdict of the jury in
the inquest by the justice was that
August Pache had come to his death
by a gunshot wound in the back. in
tiicted by his sol Louis"