Deseret Evening News | 1910-02-26 | Page 9 | Posted as Deserters Met with Foul Play

POSTED AS DESERTERS MET WITH fOUL PLAY FLAY Activity of I Fort for Bolles indicates Such J Is Their Itchier Heller Port Pori Townsend Wash Feb orous search by br detachments of lery lermon men from Fort Worden yesterday failed to the thu holle tint that other othel than or of Private B Dumm found last week and pus nn un unidentified identified soldiers found Thursday would he bo discovered Tho activity ot of directing the tho searching parties however indicates t their conviction that other men posted as deserters mot met foul play on the military reserva reservation reservation tion The first intimation that have been beell committed ut at the tho tort fort was wall the tho finding of the hotly bolly of Ito Ho Hobert hart bert Dumm Just week The Tho body hody was Vila found at the babe balle of a precipitous bluff and ga gave ever every flint the tho theinert mon inert hind had mot met death by His pockets wore turned out and everything of value was missing A I sold soldier lor believed to b by connected with the death of was a ato afew to few days later anti and is III being held In the guard house pending further investigation tion Immediately after the finding of I bod body the tho at the tho post I ordered a search mado of the sur surrounding surrounding rounding country fearing other soldiers ers who hud had mysteriously disappeared and who were posted as deserters at atthe the tho time had boon victims ot of foul play piny pinyIn In nearly every instance ot of desertion the tho man mun was nearing the end of his term of oC enlistment and was well supplied with whit mane maneTho money Tho body boLly found Thursday Is In snob a state of decomposition that the onlY possible moans means ot of Identification If is through the clothing Detectives brought to Port Townsend Crom ruin Seattle Seat Scat II tic tle are working on this line The search for additional evidence and more bodies will be continued to today I Ida da day