Weekly journal-miner., 1921-06-29
OF BODY FOUND bT BOTTOM IF SHAFT WITH WALTER
 STE|NBROOK NUT ESTABLISHED
Coroner's Jury at Hearing Yes terday Fails to Uncove Clues to Identity of Remains of the Body Discovered in Sack

No evidence was furnished by
 the witnesses examined at the cor
 oner's inquest held here yesterday,
 which would conclusively connect the
 discovery last Friday of parts of
 dismembered human body at the bot
 tom of an abandoned 20-foot shaft,
 nine miles from Crown King, with
 the disappearance last December of
 Walter Steinbrook, pioneer pros
 pector and mining man of this
 county. Steinbrook is believed to
 have been the victim of murder;
 and it is strongly held by many, in
 cluding Frank Wilson, of Mayer,
 nephew of the prospector, that the
 remains found in a gunny-sack are
 those of Steinbrook
 Returning of a verdict by the cor oner's jury awaits further evidence, 1 expected to be given at a continua- ton of yesterdays hearing, to be held at ? o'clock this afternoon.
 Testimony taken at yesterdays | hearing, lasting from II to F o'clock in the morning, and from l l to l:45 in the afternoon, was given | by Sheriff Warren c. Davis, Drs
 II. T. Southworth and Ralph Roper, i and by Frank Wilson.
 Finding of the sack, and the cir cumstances attending its removal from the bottom of the abandoned shaft in which it had been hidden, were described by Sheriff Davis. The shaft was located on ridge between Blind Indian, creek and its north fork. The sack was removed Satur- day by a party including the sheriff, County Attorney John L. Sullivan, Judge Charles H. McLane, and the coroner's jury, and was brought in to Prescott without being opened. |
 Examination of the contents of the sack by Drs. Southworth and Roper revealed no clue linking the dismem- bered bones it contained with Walter Steinbrook. Parts of the body which might have proved conclusively that the remains were those of the pros pector were missing.
 In the sack were the head, the { right half of the torso, the upper ( half of the left leg, the lower half of the left arm, part of the spinal column, and the pelvis. Only the { scalp, with a little reddish-brown hair { on it, and two lower left molars re- { mained as possible clues to the iden- I tity of the man who had been mur- l dered The body had been severed I and the several parts hidden in var | ious places. No clue exists as to the hiding place of the other parts |
 Finding of the left half of the I torso, the left leg and the right hand | of the body would conclusively es- . tablish whether it is that of Stein I brook who had had the left leg and s right arm, and a left rib broken. But I these parts are missing. a
 A hole in the rear right portion of c the skull found, = coupled with the fact b that the temple bones were missing, t led to the belief that the man had f been shot. The hole might have been ' made by a large calibre bullet, it V was said. (
 An effort to establish the identity b of the body as that of Steinbrook, b by means of an examination of the teeth, failed when Dr. Ralph Roper, called in to examine the teeth, could d not identify them or the amalgam Ii filings they contained, as work he II had done It is the estimate of the physician, Dr. H. T. Southworth, who d examined the remains, that they had | lain in their sack for over two D months. ii
 Frank Wilson told of going with il Deputy Sheriff Tommy Thompson, ( of Mayer, to the prospector's shaft lt