Show Sty Story ll Is I Told local Police Fatally Injured Tramp Kept Drunk Until Death Body Buried in Wilds Investigation Started in Pocatello A weird story about the lingering death of a miner neat near Pocatello Pocatello Pocatello Poca Poca- tello as related by Owen McGivern has caused Chief of Police J. J Parley White to ask the police of that city to commence an gation McGivern went to Major Moreton of the Salvation Army last night and told him that his conscience conscience con con- science was wall troubling him and that con I he wanted to unburden his soul sout Major Moreton told him that If It it was anything anything anything any any- thing that authorities ought to know i it was his duty to tell them i McGivern consented to the terms and nd told the same tale to Chief White lIe He said Seven of us fellows out of work decided to beat it out of Pocatello said McGivern This was about the or of this month We Ve celebrated celebrated celebrated cele cele- by getting gloriously drunk be before before before be- be fore we started Then we bought several several several sev sev- eral quarts of or John Barleycorn and climbed on board a freight A few miles this side of Pocatello I heard a groan and looked down be between between between be- be tween the cars There lay a fellow named Eugene Eugene- with his head all bloody I 1 Called to the others and when the train slowed up we all piled off We carried Gene into the jungles for tor a along along along long ways Then we all aU lay down to sleep I 1 could not sleep as Gene kept groaning His Ills head was all crushed We Vp Y gave av him a lot Jot of whisky and he stopped groaning I guess he went drunk We Ve kept full for several days and nobody went for tor a doctor I guess we were afraid to Sometimes his head would bleed for tor a long time I don dont don't t think he suffered much We Ve kept him drunk tIe lie said he had a family in Pocatello Pocatello Poca Poca- tello and he hated to die for tor that rea rca son some of ot us foraged for grub and we cooked a mulligan Gene could not eat Four days after he choked and died We were afraid of the police and that they would blame us for his death so 50 we buried burled him there in the Jungles It was hard work to dig a grave with sticks and it took almost all night We Ve smoothed the grave over to tomake tomake tomake make the place look natural and then we all scattered I came to Salt Lake but I could not sleep last night I kept thinking about Gene That's why I went to Major Moreton The police pollee say that the dead man may have met with foul play and are Investigating the tale thoroughly According According Ac Ac- cording to the police McGivern appears to he be rational |