Show DID DIE IN MEXICO Burton R B dd Resident of Salt Lake Declares He Discovered Re Be Remains mains of Noted Healer Eer BIBLE ON BODY BORE NAME I OFFERS OTHER SUP SUPPORT UP PORT OF CLAI CLAIM M The mystery of the death of Schlat ter the healer whose cures caused such a sensation In Colorado In 1894 and 1 5 has possibly been cleared up by a young man who is a resident of this city Burton Redd a student in the busi business business ness department of the Saints college believes that h he die covered the dead body of the man who was said to perform modern miracles near Colonia Juarez Chihuahua Mex leo ico in 1897 This was two years after fearing arrest on a charge that he was practicing medicine without t a license disappeared from Denver and was never heard of alive afterward About a year later the theof of a man supposed to be that p Burton Redd of was found in a wild spot in New Mexico S Some me of t the e clothing discovered near the remains were partly Identified as belonging to the healer A horse a animal was found near the body and It was generally accepted In Denver that the bones and the clothing and the animal all belonged to the missing healer Now according to Mr Redd this must have been a mistake In proof of his belief that the body he discovered belonged to he declares that he found a Bible In the clothing which bore name and the legend under it New Orleans from your friend Redd does not remember the name signed to thIs An Interesting Career Of course may have had friends in New Orleans For years before he appeared as a healer he worked as a shoemaker on Fifteenth street in Denver Then suddenly he dIsappeared and about 1894 was heard of In New Mexico He was said to be making wonderful cures His fame reached Denver and a prominent citizen of that city who had a bUnd blind friend journeyed to New Mexico and induced to come to Denver The man never pretended anything He said whatever he did Carne Came from the Father He laid hands on the Ill III and hundreds declared they had been cured of aU all sorts of diseases Neither would accept money or presents or even clothing He did accept food however He failed to cure the blind blindman blindman man but people who had heard of his alleged powers begged him to help them and for a time tinie lIe treated hundreds Then complaint was made that he was wasa a faker and when he was Informed that he mIght be arrested he decided to leave the city Friends provided him with a horse and plenty of provisIons and he left Denver In the night To those who saw him depart he said he Was going Into the desert of New Mexico to fast The report of his death followed Redd mentioned hIs discovery In regard to the body to Attorney J M Hamilton a few days ago and the lat latter latter ter decided that perhaps the Colorado authorities might care to learn of the fate of the man He will wiIl probably communicate with them Redd says that he found the remains In an Isola spot about fifteen miles mUes north northwest northwest west of Colonia Juarez early In 1897 The body was lyIng In blankets and the saddle and bags attached to It were hanging from a pole which had been placed between two trees Bible Bore His Name There was underclothing on the limbs and trunk and a black woolen sweater Redd had been searching for cattle and had followed a trail along the Verdes river northwest of the city into a deep canyon when he made the ghastly find Besides the Bible he be discovered In the pockets of the saddle n a small hammer a few horseshoes thread and needle and a box of vulcan matches Redd lifted up the head of the skeleton and It came off in hIs hands There was no hair hairon on It and little skin which indicated that the owner of the remains had been dead a long time After marking the spot Mr Redd hurried to Casas Grandes and reported to the authorities authorities ties They directed hIm to bury the He did SO just where he found and burned the clothing The blankets were used for a shroud Afterward a professor from Phoenix Arizona dug up the skull and carried it away Sure It Was Mr Redd said yesterday that he had no doubt that the skeleton belonged to In 1896 an American Ab MeI Mc McGrew Grew a neighbor told him that he hemet hemet met a man who said he was near hog Dog SprIngs on the border of Old Mexico and New Me Mexico ico This Indi Individual vidual McGrew went on Informed him that he was the noted healer and was going into the mountains to fast for forty days Not long after atter this another American named P S wil hams IIams passed the place where Redd found the body and saw a man lying there There w s a gray or white horse hobbled near Thinking the man was asleep Williams s did not disturb him Redd believes he was probably dead at that time tim Some months afterward this white horse wandered into Juarez He was not branded so Redd kept him for fora a time and one day he disappeared A Mexican claimed Him and worked him so hard bard that he died In view of aU all these facts which Mr Redd feels are absolutely correct he feels sure that he has solved the mystery of death The young student left Juarez Sept 9 1895 and came to this city In order to obtain a business education He now resides at Tenth East street f f |