Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1910-05-28
H. E. RECKMEYER
FOUND DEAD
By Two Women, Three Miles From
Sand Point, Ida. with Bullet
Hole Through Head.

The Lody o. dead man 4. .lns on
his face Wn.cn naQ.eeou4e u4acnenou
from ~oneea4ed D4oo0, "ltn a elas.-
~ bullet noe IN ,ne IIenL LeApie ,allu
grueSOme WOunu, Was Tile Sisut Lna,
met the e, es or MS. noMer Oactl4
and daughter In law, Mrs. John U.s.
yesterday loon as .uey were luaniAY
tnelr way 20 MRS. oscars noAo, Ju~,
beyond Ch.ck slougu. After Iu..44..
sure t.4aI tie l.an WAS uead Tie t"u
women has.ened 10 lover where the.
notified the proper authorizes OF
their gruesome find
5 her-ff Merritt, with his depu,
Wilcox and Hutchinson and a nu4..
OF Curious sightseeis, left immeulate
for the place where the man Wa
first fo-n4. The body was lying par
~ on the left side with the II,
side O. the head turned upwards.
rs ca.ibre Cots automatic revolver
was toand in the hand of the deo
man. A fishing rod and 20 speci.
Winchester rifle were resting on
stump nearby. Upon searching the
mans clothes between $4,000 anu
81 900 in notes, about SIS In cure
cy and a bank draft for $100 were
found. Cards of H. E. Reckmeyer
were found on the person and a not,
book containing the inscription,
case of serious accident notify Mrs. G.
Reckmeyer ofFremont, Neb."
Further investigation ON the part
of the sheriff's office revealed that
Reckmeyer arrived in this city last
hotel, getting up early Friday morn
ingtaking a % calibre rifle and fish
rod with him, when he left the hotel.
Going uptown he purchased a fishing
license. From the time he left the
hotel no one seems to remember
having seen him. From the position of
the body and the decomposed state
in which 1t was found it is evident
that the shooting wasaccidental, that
death had been instantaneous, and
that the shooting had occurred on
Friday morning. 1t is very probable
that the deceased had been examinin
the revolver and very possibly was
bending over it at the time of the
fatal shot, the bullet entering the
right temple. The revolver remained
claspei lightly in the dead mans hand
at thetimeofthesheriff's inspection.
R3ckmeyer had evidently been sit
ting on log about thirty feet from
the wagon road going from this city
to Cover. Owing to the length of
time which had elapsed from the time
Of death tiilthefinding of the body,
1t was frightfully decomposed, having
been exposed to the sun over three
days.
Immediately after the finding of
the body, Mrs. G. Reckmeyer of FIRE.
mont was notified and Undertaken
Brewer is in receipt of telegram
stating that relatives of the deceased
will be here as soon as possible to
take charge of theremains. The de-
ceased, it has been learned came to
this city from Mountain Home, l.
iahO, where he has evidently been in
Dusin 2ss. From co respondence found
On his person it is evident that Reck-
means The deceased was 81 years
If age of heavy build, probably weighs
ng about 1870 pounds 1t is not known
whether or not he hada family.
During the preliminary investiga-
ion made it was thought that the de-
,eased might have committed suicide.
Later investigations have done away
With this theory, and the fact that
'uch a large sumofmoney was found
IN the body does away with any idea
VI murder for thesake of the avlua-
,les carried-Northern Idaho News
Located about midway between
'hoshone and Gooding will be the