The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-01-08

n THE dark shadows of Pixies Peak
region lies hidden the secret of
many foul crime Each year adds
to the list of missing. Each year
hundreds of persons led by an advent
urous spirit wander about the mountains
and canyons unguided and unassisted
Many never return from these expedi-
tons Years after a bunch of whiteneo
bones or a half-decayed heap of cloth
is found by other adventurous spirits
Sometimes a hole left Enthusiastically by
a bullet or crushed skull tells duTnbly
a story of foul play
Now and then, however, the noun
tains give up the story OF an awful
crime and the world stands amazed
that such fends may masquerade in
human form. More pitiless than the
jagged rocks, crueler than the wild
beasts which haunt these mountain
Businesses, men have at times given free
rein to thei- passions In the thought
that their cranes would never come TO
light Such a tale has come in the past
few days from Mount Cutler, near Colo
RADIO Springs.
The nude body of a beautiful young
woman was found frozen stiff on the
west slope of Mount Cutler, the highest
,,ojnt on the saddle between North and
South Cheyenne canyons 1t lay face
downward upon two parallel logs With
fendish ingenuity the murderer had
covered the dead face with a mixture
of gasolene and turpentine and set IRE
10 it. The skin and eyes were horribly
burned making recognition impossible.
All the hair on the front of the head
was burned away but the golden brown
locks tightly coiled IN the back had
escaped destruction. They werc stained
and matted with black blood which had
oozed from a bullet wound
A Chance Find.
Lying In a elump OF trees, 800 feet
from the burro path which leads across
the saddle Of Cheyenne canyon, the
body had escaped notice for probably
two or three weeks, and had it not been
for a chance which took County Sur
yeyor Woodside and DR.. r. G. Chamber
lain to that particular part Of Moun;
Cutler, II might have remained there 70.
months. even years, and no one the
wiser. But Dr. Chamberlain determined
to survey tract Of forty acres which
he owned in that neighborhood, and Il
was while looking for an old landmark
that he stumbled on the dead girl
Whoever the murderer was he had
carefully planned every detail of the
crime This was not the result of {
sudden passionate outburst. He luret
the girl to this secluded place witt
every intention of numbering her Ht
had probably visited that very same
clump of trees before the day Of tht
murder, and rehearsed the final scene
without the presence of the other actor
He had thought of everything Where
L,
should destroy every evidence of tht
crime Not q stitch of clothing did HI
leave on his victim What he did will
these clothes is still puzzling the police
He either buried them, burned them, o.
carried them away with him. The hare
frozen ground precludes the Idea of hi
having buried the clothes, and the fac
that there has been no pile of ashes
found or steel or whalebone stays
would indicate that they had not beer
burned.
Fatal Oversight.
But though the murderer proved him
self master hand he overlooked tw'
things which may prove of vital impor
lance not only in the discovery of TIA
identity of the girl. but also IN tn
pursuit OF her slayer. Like the wises
of men, he overlooked trifies. He forge
the inoisiuudiily u iiei eSStH Eaiii iidi4
Both have characteristics which are pc
culiarly their own A dentist had don
some unusual and delicate work for her
work which 1t would be impossible 70
the man who had done ii not TO recog
nize Her hair, which the murderer ha
thought would be entirely burned wa
so closely coiled that it had failed I
burn. Had he but shaken IL loose tn
flames would have made short work C
the long tresses If ever the myster
which surrounds this crime is cleared u
these two oversights on the part of tn
murderer will play an important part.
One Phase of Story Closed.
A deep and lonely grave in Evergree
Cemetery, lying just east OF Noun
Washington. southeast OF Colorad
Springs. has closed one phase of tn