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Show ,M ALASKAN rilNER IS : Manned by hipislelr VANCOUVER. B. C, Oct. 28. A dispatch dis-patch from Skagway says: It Is believed be-lieved James Murray, otherwise known . as Moreira, murdered his partner, James Flsk, last March, at Halibut bay, ijpar Seldovla. while 'insane! The skel-Jpton skel-Jpton of Flsk was found recently by na- tlves, with a riflle ball In the back. It was identified by clothing; and letters found on the body. In the cabin twenty steps away were found a blood-rusted razor and a knife, and there were bloodstains on the furniture. fur-niture. Murray is supposed to have committed suicide, as he has , never been seen since last February. -' The men were together on the Inlet every year. In the cabin seven letters written by Murray were found. ' - They were stamped and addressed to friends at different points. Several were addressed ad-dressed to people id Victoria. B. C, one having the address of Joseph H. Lewis of Victoria. In which the writer says i "I have but a few hours to live." ! Then follows incoherent religious and Socialistic utterances. Another, to ,an uq named brother, says: . "I have agreed that Flsk should kill me today at 5 o'clock, ana he Is to be killed after, me by my agency. All this is for wrongs in our past lives, and for the sake of humanity. We have agreed to wipe out all scores of the past in a sane and friendly way, so that In doing this we forgive one another, as weH as forgive our enemies." Fisk had' several hundred dollars and Murray also had a considerable sum, but none of It has"beenfound. " It Is possible the lonely life the. men led drove one or both Insane, and then followed fol-lowed this mysterious and unexplained crime. |