The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-07-10
FIND MAY SOLVE
LACASSE MYSTERY
BASIN BOY DISCOVERS SKELE.
TON OF WOMAN, KILLED BY
BLOW ON TEMPLE.
G. G. Skidmore, convict in the Col
orado penitentiary, is suspected Of
holding key to the LaCasse wo-
mans disappearance.

Crumpled in a boulder grave on
Red Rock cliff between Bernice
and Basin, the skeleton of a muir
dered woman, which may prove to
be that of the long missing Mrs.
Ernest LaCasse of Butte, was
found recently by a Basin boy. The
oma had been killed by a blow
on the temple, the crushed skull
shows.
The skeleton, tied in a blanket, had
been covered by big rocks. Strands
of red hair which chung to the skull
and dental work and other details
led to the immediate theory that the
mystery of the disappearance of Mrs.
LaCasse had been cleared, while re-
lations declared they believed it to
be her body.
A piece of what was apparently a
sofa pillow, embroidered with roses,
was also found and may identify the
skeleton as that of Mrs. LaCasse.
Mrs. Fred Taylor of Basin, an aunt
of Mr.. LaCasse, viewed the scene at
Red Rock and was struck with the re-
semblance of the embroidered article
to the one presented to Mrs. LaCasse
by Mrs. Fred Wedlake of Butte, mo-
Their of Ernest LaCasse. Mrs. We'd
lake embroidered the pillow cover and
will endeavor to identify it. Mrs. Tay-
Tor was of the opinion that it was the
body of her nephew's wife.
Ernest LaCasse, husband of the
missing woman, says that from de-
d%oubtedly that of his wife and will
+o-o- - ~oa1ro ~oc.4s,A yIonfif;oo
ton.
Turn to SkidmOre.
Should Identification be made of
the skeleton as hat of the Butte
woman, G. G. Skidmore, alias D. E.
Montague, now a convict in the
Colorado penitentiary, who has long
been suspected of holding the key
to themystery, will be brought back
to Butte to stand trial for murder,
Chief of Police Murphy has an
nounced.
The skeleton was discovered by
Harvey Burrough, Is years old, of
Basin, while he tramped around the
rocks waiting for a comrade. Bur-
rough and Charles Collins were mo-
tOring in the vicinity when they ran
out of gasoline. Collins walked to
Basin to secure some and Burrough
remained with the car.
During his wait Burrough walked
toward the foot of Red Rock cliff,
about 100 feet from the roadside.
Noticing a pile of rocks which indi-
Gated a cache of some kind, he in
vestigated an dfound the skeleton.
1t had been damned into a small
space among heavy boulders and
rocks had been placed over the grave.
of clothing lay about the shall
low burial place and the bones had
fallen apart.
Sheriff John w. Mountjoy of Boul-
der was notified and investigated the
discovery. The murdered woman's
skull bore a heavy dent back of the
temple and the skull bone was
split, apparently the result of a heavy
blow from a hammer or some other
instrument.
A rope had been tied about a light
blue colored blanket or robe in which
the bones lay and pieces of what was
probably a blue and white house
and silken undergarments were
IN the blanket.
In the seleton were a number of
3OIu IOOCH anu LWO plSCSo VI Ollu5Ol
work. LaCasse declares his wife had
similar dental work. Some Of the
had fallen out but were found
the resting place.
While DR.. T. B.. Anderson, form
srly of Butte, who performed the dem
al work for Mrs. LaCasse, is now liv-
ng California, LaCasse hopes to be
tble to identify the skeleton through
he teeth.
Had Red Hair.
The victim in the Jefferson county
ills had a large amount of red hair,
iuch Is the missing Butte woman
lad, and the stature was of a small t
woman like Mrs. LaCasse. S
The skeleton was taken to a {
in Boulder. i
If identification is not made, au- {