Weekly journal-miner., 1910-06-08
STRANGE SEQUEL ID FINDING OF
 SKELETONS Mute1y Tell Tragic End ing of BOrder1and
 Lovers Party Fleeing From Irate. Parent, Slain By
 Indians
Especial Correspondence.) )

DOUGLAS, June 8. A strange
 sequel has come to light in eounee-
 tion with the finding of three skele-
 tons and an old Sharpe army rifle
 Of the cavalry type of 1860 by Min
 ing Engineer W. H. Warrington
 while making an examination of a
 prospect near the Santa Rosa mine
 in the Naeozari district a few days
 ago. The discovery is the last chap
 ter in a romantic elopment which
 was one of the love themes of the
 borderland thirty-six years ago, in
 the days when the Yaqui and Apa-
 che Indians and the renegade des-
 peradoes on both sides of the line
 vied with each other in the daring of their hold-ups and the cruelty of
 their methods in extOrting the last coin of gold or silver from their victims.
 As related, Worthington had reach ed high peak, with sides so preeipi- tous that no horse could have been ridden up to the summit There he found the old Sharpe gun. The trig- ger was cooked and the gun loaded, and beside it were the skeletons of three people, one of them that of a woman, and the other two those of men. The bodies had never been buried. The gun was brought to Douglas, where many examined it in the, Douglas Chamber of Commerce and Mines. An agent of one of the big fire arms companies identified the weapon, and stated that it was man. ufaetored in Springfield, Ills, in 1860, and was for the cavalry. The gun had never been in general use in the Southwest, and how it came into Mexico was a mystery.
 A mystery, until Clerk Lupert, in the Government Customs house here told his tale. In the days of danger and hardship his father had set up a little hardware store on the border. One night there dashed up to the store two men and a pretty Spanish girl. One of the men explained that the girl was his sweetheart, that her father had objected to his marriage to her, while friends in Guaymas were friendly to the match. The second man, he stated, was his friend. Their plan was to cross the border, follow the old Camina Real down through what is now the Tigre dis triet of mines, strike the Yaqui river l and continue on to .Guaymas, where shelter would be given them, and the marriage take place.
 The bridegroom displayed a heavt belt of golden nuggets hammered into flat discs. With two of these he paid for the Sharpe rifle, the only one in the store. Quickly then the little party left. A few hours later the father of the girl dashed into the store. Inquiry told him that he was on the right track, and swearing on his daughter, who was by name Carmen Gotta. and the two men, he took up the trail in hot pur- suit. Two weeks later he returned to Lupert, telling him that he had been unable to locate the party and lad given up the chase
 Day by day he waited for news from Guaymas. None came. None 'ver came. But now, the finding of he three skeletons, cleaned by the 'ultures and bleaehed in the Mexican iuns, adds the last chapter to the 'omanee and the triple tragedy, for t is plain that the party which so gayly left the borderland store thirty ix years ago were met by a band of indians or renegades, saw their dan ger, took refuge on the erags, and were there shot defending themselves IS best they could with the one old ellie now on exhibition.