The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1904-12-23
WOFUI MURDER
NEAR THE CHEYENNE CANYONS
Young Woman Geeoyed to the Noun
tains and shot-ciothing Destroyed
to Prevent Identification.

to Prevent Identification.
Denver. Dec. 2O.-Colorado Springs
dispatches give particulars of a horri-
BILE crime committed on Cheyenne
mountain near that city.
Lying across the trunk of a decayed
tree. her face burned to a crisp. the
nude body OF a woman was found on
the slope of Cheyenne mountain.
about seven miles from the city, this
afternoon. Besidethe body was half
filled bottle of gasoline. indicating an
attempt had been made to cremate the
remains.
The discovery was made by DR.. F.
C. Chamberlain dentist, who, with
friends, was making surveys. 1t was
in secluded spot. at point about
$50 feet south of the burro trail that
leads up the mountain from the pa
vilion in North Cheyenne canon that
the body was found. The spot is known
as Cutler mountain and forms the
saddle between North and South Chey-
enne canons.
The theory that the woman was
murdered is supported by the fact that
that she was lying stretched out, her
arms by her side. indicating that when
her form was placed across the fallen
tree and the gasoline lighted it was life
less, as no living person could have
withstood the terrible torture without
writhing about. The only part of the
body burned was the face and hair.
The flesh was partially decom-
posed, but the fact that the snow
has been on the ground for several
weeks may have kept the remains in
in n state of preservation for long
time. so that it is hard to say when
the woman died.
A coroner's jury was summoned on
Monday and returned verdict that
the woman came to her death on a
date unknown and that the cause was
a gunshot wound below the left ear,
ranging upward, the bullet being OF
3S-caliber and fired by some person un-
known, with felonious intent
An autopsy developed The fact that
the murdered woman was in a normal
state, leaving no ground on which to
form even n suspicion that she had
been killed to hide her shame.
A most important result of the au'
topsy was the discovery that the
woman had about $50 in pure gold in
her teeth, the dental work on which
must have cost nearly 5000. A minute
description of the condition of the
the coroner 1t follows:
THE upper right wisdom tooth is
undeveloped. On the upper right side
OF the mouth a solid gold bridge eX-
tends from the first molar to the GUS
pid. The second molar is present. The
first and second bicuspids are absent,
filled with solid gold dummies. There
are two gold filings, medium size, in
the mesial of the upper central fncisor.
"On the upper left side gold bridge
extends from the first bicuspid to the
second molar, worn on the mesio-
lingual portion of the crown. The sec
ond molar is made from a bicuslid
dummy. The third molar is present.
THE lower right three molars or
wisdom teeth are present. The second
molar is gold-filled in the misio-occlu'
sial surface. The first molar Is absent
and has been gone several years.
"All teeth are present on the lett
lower side. Large gold filling on oc'
clusion of the first molar. Large gold
filling on occlusion extending onto dis
tai surface of the second molar.
The report of the autopsy places the
woman's age from seventeen to thirty
years, as judged by the condition OF
the teeth. The popular opinion Is that
she was about twenty-five years OLD.
John Quick, miner and teamster
living in Denver, fears that it was MS
wife who was murdered, and friends at
Colorado Springs of Miss Lena Weber
of Kansas City have examined the
body under the belief that she may
have been the victim, but there mas
been no identification yet.