| Show REDOS TALE CORROBORATED James Martineau Was in Mex Mexico Mexico ico When Supposed Body of Was Founds Found To The Salt SaIt Lake Herald In your is issue issue sue of the I notice a reference to the healer and the finding of his body near Colonia Juarez Mexico I was resIdIng at the time in that town and am conversant with the matter and andam andam am posItive the remains found were those of the renowned healer Some ot of our goIng after fIrEwood in the foothills of the Sierra Madre mountains dIscovered the body lyIng upon a bed such as packers usually havea few blankets and a at all decomposed decomposed posed or mutilated by any wIld animal By his pillow was his valise containing a Bible hymn book and several other pUblications each havIng his name upon the fly lea leaf as ai the owner of the book and the fly leaves contaIned also brief notes written by friends In Denver thank Ing him for healing them and asking God to bless hIm The bras rod which he used in heal lug Ing was also thereabout two inches in dIameter and two feet long and quite heavy In healIng he had touched the sIck with the rod A few men went from the colony and decently interred the body and brought away all his belongings ox ex except the gray horse which bad previous previously ly been appropriated by a Mexican I saw all these articles and copied in ray my journal some o of the testimonials in the books written by friends in Denver Deaver All AIl these articles with the sad die dle were taken possession of by the thc Mex lean authorities of Casas Gran Grandes des Mex Ico fco and are probably still there After left Denver he passed through Nw New Mexico and southern Arizona and entered the Sierra mountains near WIllow Springs near the line Une be tween Sonora and Chihuahua which was the last time he was seer alive b by any one and his last act of healing so far fara faras a as known was the healing of a horse with a very sore and swollen back upon which he laid his brass red and the horse so It s said was Immediately healed He never accepted pay for heal free to him free to others From the positIon and s ln s of the body it Is evident he had lain down i to die having turned his horse loose i and had died without any struggle Jle calm ly and peacefully I sp speak ak of this thI mat ter because on one or two impostors who claim to be have tried to per personate personate him but with this difference nce they always warded pay n nd did iid no Teal real healing JAMESH JAr S H MARTINEAU |
