The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1922-02-03
SUNDAY TRAGEDY
THAT STIRS CHALLE
DAN BREYER SHOOTS TO DEATH
OSCAR TAYLOR. SEEN WITH
HIS WIFE.
fChallis Messenger.l


Last Sunday evening at about /
twenty minutes of nine o'clock, those |
living in the neighborhood of the Dan |
Breyer home in this city, were startl- |
ed by two shots in close succession
and after short interval third |
shot, accompanied by the frightened
cries of woman.
| In a remarkably short time quite a |
few bad gathered at the scene of the |
disturbance and there learned that !
| Oscar Taylor, man about thirty |
years of age, who owned a ranch on
Warm Springs creek, had been shot
three times by Dan Breyer, as he was
leaving the Breyer home in company
with Mrs. Breyer.
Mrs. Breyer was the only eye wit
ness to the terrible affair and it was
while she was struggling with her
husband for the possession of the
rifle, .25-.35, the interval between
second and third shots occurred.
Immediately after the killing Mrs.
Bryer summoned help and Mr.. Bryer
left for the home of his brother-in-
lii-law, VIM. Millick, where he left the
gun with which he did the killing,
and he, in company with Mr.. Millick,
came up town where Mr.. Cummins,
| sheriff of Custer county, apprehended
Mr.. Breyer and placed him in Jail.
DR.. Kirtley was Immediately called
to the Breyer home and found that
life was extinct in Taylor and he had
the body moved from the front yard
where it had fallen, to the front rorchs
where it remained until Coroner
lEbberts arrived and caused it to be
removed to the morgue. 4
Many attorneys have been engaged
on the case as follows: Chase A.
Clark and the firm of Whitcomb,
Cowen and Clark for the defense and
w. w. Adamson has been engaged as
associate counsel with Prosecuting
Attorney Milton A. Brown.
Mr.. Breyer, the man who took the
life of Taylor, has lived in this sec
ton for some thirty years and has
always up to this time, been a peace
full, law-abiding citizen. Mr.. Taylor,
the man whom Mreyer killed, had not
lived in Bound valley very long and
has been known to have considerable
trouble during his residence here, and
it was only last week that he was
| placed under bonds to keep the peace
on complaint of Mr.. Breyer and 81,
/ Millick.
Coroner's Inquest.
In the matter of the inauisition up
on the body of Oscar Taylor, deceas-
ed, before j. l.. Ebberts, coroner, and
| a jury, January "a, 1922.
Jury sworn as follows: Emmett
, Hosford, Richard Bennetts, Thos.
Jose, Sr., Albert Siebe, w. B. Brown
! lee, Clayton Williams, VIM. Peck, F.
Blume and William Grinnell..
2 At the inquest Dr. C. L. Kirtley tes-
: titled as follows:
| at was about 8 o'clock, | think, |
/ was home. Gurney James came
running up there all out of breath. |
asked him what was the matter. He
: said there was somebody shot down
at Breyers. We got right out here
: when we met the sheriff. He went
= down with US. We went in the back
way; about 20 feet from the house
e there was man down. | could see
I the blood in the snow. / examined
his pulse-he had none. The first
| thing | noticed was a little round
j hole an inch outside and one inch be-
3 low the outside of his left eye. / un-
: buttoned his clothing saw another bull
i let wound. / saw the man was dead
a ! did nothing more. We picked the
e body up and carried it in on the front
i porch of the house. Someone went
7 for the coroner and a stretcher. They
t put the body on it and left with il
!. and / went home"
Sheriff F. w. Cummins testified
G that Ben Breyer had confessed to the
shooting, had surrendered himself anc
was being held in Jail.
The jury found Taylor had been
|, killed by Breyer, but assigned nc