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Show I GRUESOME TRAGEDY IN . SHAFT NEAR PIOCHE A tragedy, mart erf somewhere within with-in the confines of thin district. i the . mute story told by thiv-o skeletons uii-. uii-. oarth'!d in the. bottom or a lift-foot, shaft t on I he property of the California Pior-hc i , Minnie company by William Wheat lev ' :"d his Hon. Eb Wheatley. last b'atitr- ' t 'lay- -s.vs 'he Ploche Kc'ord. ! J 'i ' Ope of the skeletons iK thai, of a. man; ' . another that, of a woman; while the third I I" that of a dog; whom the perpetrators of the . dc?d probably threw into the hafl to rover up the Inst trace of a double crime. On mp of these gnie.ome remains were plied several fret of Iarg1 rocks and boulders which give niinils-' niinils-' :takabb- evidence thai Iho victims were murdered in cold blood. 1 The bones were badlv rolled, bui the -. skull of (he woman, containing, an nglv j , fracture just above where one of tho j J' '.ears should be. ' was" exceedingly well preserved. The man's skull was 'broken into several pieces. Nothing was left in tho- way or identification, ho completely complete-ly did the murderer plan and execute the horrible deed. .So it is probable that It will never be known who the persons . were whose bodies have reposed in tho " shaft undiscovered for years and It Is , equally certain that tho names of thoir 1 executioners will never como lo HghL J The shaft is located in a lonely guleh ,f. 1 f,',t,'lL fifty yards below the main works T " .of the California Ploche mine. |