, 1904-03-26
AUGUST PACHE SHOT
BY HIS YOUNG SON

reling more Or less for several years,
and he is said to have more than once
threatened her life. He was intense
ly jealous Of her, objecting to even her
own son Roy Squires. by a former
marriage, who lives above the Pache
ranch. coming to he house to see his
mother alone. The Paches have been
married several years. having four
children, the o being about IA years
of age. Young Squires is a married
man, about 81 years of age.
The Pache ranch is in Larimer coun-
ty, Colorado, and of course the officers
here were not notified officially. The
inquest will be held by the coroner of
that county.
It is said that some years back
Pache owed a man who had entered
suit to collect the money. He trans
ferred his property to his wife to
avoid execution on the judgment, and
after the matter was settled up by
some process or other, he tried to per-
srade Mrs. Pache to transfer the prop
erty back to him, she all the time re-
fusing, which has been one source OF
the endless quarreling between them.
SQuires has more than once had to i'll
terpose to prevent his step-father
from mistreating his mother.
Pache was formerly a resident of
this city and acted as a sort OF detec-
tive. He was the officer in charge of
81 Partridge, accused of horse stealing,
who was being taken overland to Red
Buttes, there to take the train for Fort
Collins, and who vas o%vertaken by
masked men u old Fort Sanders II
hanged to a gate on the west side of
the railroad track, this occurrence TAX
ing place about fifteen or eighteen
years ago. It was feared by the Off
GERS here that Partridge would be tax
en- from item and lynched if placed on
the train here and he was spirited out
of own after night in n carriage, Pache
being placed in charge of him, he hav-
ingsomewhat ola Tom Horn reputation
as a bravado. Pache later had position
with a stock association in the upper
Laramie r.ver section and removed
Will HIS ldLllIy ~ thtiI pitoeut hoiiiS'
where he incurred the enmity of a
large number of the inhabitants of that
neighborhood, He was constantly
watched for acts OF treachery. it is
claimed.
The boy who did the killing is very
small for his age. being not much larg-
er than a boy of I or 8 years. His
growth was stunted and he is not only
short of stature but is thin and weak
looking.
Reports of the constant fighting of
Mr.. and Mrs. Pache are numerous. A
sleeping in the Pache house, tells OF
being awakened m night by n scream
and hearing n fall IN the floor in the
adjoining He hastily dressed
and went into the room, where he
found Mrs. Pache lying on the floor,
her husband having knocked her down.
These fights, this party says, were OF
frequent occurrence, Mr.. Pache de-
handing that the wife deed the proper
ty back to him, threatening often to
kill her If she did ont and declar-
ing that her elder son, Roy Squires,
should have none of it.
About two weeks ago Mrs. Pache
took two of the younger children and
went to Fort Collins. Pache t%elephon-
ed to both Fort Collins and Laramie in
an effort to md her, finally locating
her at the Larimer county seat. They
patched up their differences and he
went to Fort Collins and brought her
home. The truce was snort-lived, how
ever, as subsequent events showed.
Louie Pache, who did the killing,
went to the nearest telephone and com
municated with the authorities at Fort
Collins. acquainting the coroner with
what he had done.
Miss Sodergreen, who returned to
her home yesterday afternoon from
a visit in the neighborhood of the
ranch, telephoned The Republican
some Of the details of the matter at
noon today. She says that Mrs. Pache
was washing the supper dishes In the
kitchen of the Pache ranch at 1880
Thursday evening. when Pache entered
the room with a cooked shotgun in
his hand. He told his wife that he
wanted her to sign some papers, prob
ably referring to the papers transfer
ring back to him ome property. She
told him she would not sign them then
or at any other time.
"Ill give you just twenty minutes
to sign them,'' he said. "of | will kill