Show 81 HIS P HIDING KG PLACE I I Skeleton I of Slapjack Dave I Parker Found in Tunnel Un Under Und der dr d r Old Rawlins Building e ESCAPED FROM JAIL IN 1868 NOTORIOUS MURDERER OF THE EARLY DAYS IN WYOMING Special to The Herald Wyo v yo Jan 14 aThe The finding of a human skeleton In a tunnel under one of the time oldest buildings In Rawlins Ra Ita 11 the mystery of ot the fate tate of or Dave Parker who escaped ped pedrom from rom Sheriff Lemmons o of Carbon county at this place In The logs legs of the skeleton are in Iron shackles and by these shackles William Dale Daley who led a that searched for or Par Parker Parker ker kor In 1868 identified the bones aa as those of the outlaw of or early earb territorial flays clays s The tunnel In which the skeleton skeleton ton was as found was discovered while workmen were tre re demolishing the old building Beside the skeleton lay a squirrel rifle with one barrel above the other and a fine globe sight remember this gun gunas gunas gunas as the property of Parker Bad Man of Early Days Parker was one of ot the most noto notorious notorious rious bad men of at the early days of the territory of ot Wyoming At the time of or his from Sheriff Lemmons he ha was under arrest on a charge of mur murdering murdering murdering dering two to men on the Platte river He lie was confined In the building be beneath beneath beneath neath which his skeleton today was found while whilO awaiting the arrival of a atrain atrain atrain train on which he lie was to be taken to t Cheyenne Before the train came he ha mysteriously disappeared and posses searched the surrounding country for days without finding any trace of him Sheriff Lemmon was waa charged with having permitted the prisoner to get getaway getaway getaway away and with having assisted him after his escape r The finding find In today of the tunnel un under under Under der the old building and the skeleton of Parker therein shows that the pris prisoner oner probably accidentally discovered the excavation while in the building In 1868 descended therein and remained In hiding until he starved to death Once Held Up Cheyenne Parker Parler in early days operated with the two brothers who were notorious outlaws Shortly before Parker was arrested for the Platte river murders he and the held up Cheyenne standing off ort the entire peace force and a large mob of ot citizens citizen and then escaping to the hills on horseback They came direct to Carbon county and were employed by Perry L 1 Smith now no postmaster of ot Rawlins to kill game for Union Pa Pacific construction gangs which were laying the railroad westward from this place at that time One of the brothers a short time after the disappearance of Par Parker Parker Parker ker rode Into Laramie and the th town killing Sheriff John when the officer attempted to take him Into custody Later the outlaw w was killed during a running fight with a posse The bones of Parker either will be burled buried In the local cemetery or pre presented presented presented to the Wyoming Historical so society socIety society for exhibition beside the cele cole celebrated boots of the unlamented Big Nose George Geore which are an Interest InterestIng Ing feature of or th the collection |