Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-12-08 | Page 2 | Skeleton Revives Mystery of Ranch

SKELETON REVIVES MYSTERYOF RANCH RAYMONDVTLLE. Texas, Dec. ( (UP) John Blanton's mother and the sheriff argued today over th identity of a skeleton found in the ' brush near the great King ranch. ! John Blanton and his father, Lu- ther. have been missing since November No-vember IS, 1936, when they sup- j poeedly crawled through the fence to hunt ducks on ths forbidden lands of the 1.000.000-acr King ranch. Farmer friend of the Blan-tons Blan-tons think ths King cowboys killed them for poaching and disposed of , the bodies. A bitter quarrel over the 1 Blanton case haa raged for a year. A Mexican hunter found the skele-1 ton on a 280-acr tract of brush ! Sunday, 11 miles southwest of the . King ranch fence. The bones had I bees charred by a brush fir and little waa left of them, but Mrs. Lu- I ther Blanton said they were th re-1 mains of her son beyond a doubt ' and Sheriff Howard Cragg of Wll-j ilacy county said they positively! were not I