The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1907-08-23
HAVE FOUND
ellis BODY
-(Littlc TX ckies Miner.)

(Littlc tx ckies Mlner.)
The mystery Of the disappearance Of
a. D. Gill is soly ed. He was murder
ed and crelnated. The causes leading
up to the tragedy enacted on lone
" mountain are yet a mystery, but
even these will become known and
the nlurderers brought to the bar Of
4 justice.
a. D. Gill was last seen alive in
October of last year, when he left
the Coburn ranch, bound, presumably
for the Missouri river. He rode sn
ordinary Montana rugged saddle on
his well known white horse, branded
quarter circle, circle His saddle
blanket was a red one After several
weeks had gone by, his absence be-
came generally known, but no effort
was made to trace him, until the fol
lowing spring when his brothers came
out from the east and made some in
quiries These efforts were fruitless
beyond establishing the fact that q
young half breed in knocking around,
had stumbled upon the carcass Of a
recently killed white horse, branded
as was Gills horse, and with a red
stained back. When the boy first
found the horse it had not been killed
more than a week or two, as it was in
good shape and the bullet hole in the
forehead as plain as if made but the
day before, and the c,otted blood
was still in the animals nostrils and
upon the ground. But the boy knew
nothing of Gill, his horse nor his die
appearance, and if he ever mentioned
the finding OF the horse, it was to his
immediate circle which was a limited
one. It was only after the offer of
reward Of $500. by the brothers that
old man Sorrette, himself a halfbreed,
learned of the horse, made a trip to
Harlem and acquainted the brothers
with the fact. This was about seven
months after the horse had been killed
and nothing then remained but the
bones; and they seem to have attach
ed little Importance to the boys state
ment
The matter never left old man Sor-
rett's mind, and last week he jour
neyed again to this high, wooded
butte, where the bones Of the horse
lie bleaching in the sun, and gave the
ground another inspection. Not far
from these bones he found evidence
of big camp fire, and kicking up the
ashes he found the lower jaw bone Of |
a man, with one end burned away,
and the united ulnia and radius
the bones Of the lower arm.
.8 These satisfied him of the manner
in which Gill had me. his death, and
he made no further search, but par
ties have gone to the scene today, and
we hope to be able to give more de-
finite information next week as thcy
will thoroughly sift the ashes and ex-
anime the ground in the vicinity. |
# this Indians theory prove correct, /
and it looks plausible, Gill was eth
er murdered in the valley and carr ed |
to the hill on his own horse or was
made prisoner and taken to the high
butte where both he and his horse
Were killed. and ellis body afser-
ward crellated. If SO, it does not
seem probable that anyone individual
was concerned in his murder, hut I
that two Or more operated togea her
and concluded to destroy all evidence
of his existence through the medium
of the funeral pyre
Tt is difficult to believe that Mr..
Gill had ever given a man Of the
ordinary type cause for enmity to the
extent that would have led to the
logging of his steps by day ana by
night, with a heart fatally bent on
mischief, hence, It is reasonable tol
look for his murdereEs among the
abno.mally developed, the uneducat-
ed, and the type more nearly APP
the animal in british in
stinet, actuated and governed or