Show 216 esile Three weeks after he was left there he was reported as having escaped August 4 1862 Miller been over to the island lately reported that John Baptiste had He had killed a two year old heifer and gone is two or three slabs which were on the supposed that with island he had made a canoe and escaped® Today Dan who had it Albert stated in his account that Baptiste had helped himself to supplies used carpenter tools torn part of the roof from the cabin evidently made a raft and made his esThe distance between Fremont Island and Promontory cape Point is not great and escape by that route would have been relatively simple Certainly the skeleton found at the mouth of Jordan river thirty years later was not that of John Baptiste It was more likely the remains of one of the prisoners who escaped from the penitentiary several years after the Baptiste episode Dewey’s account also asserted that Baptiste had been seen in Montana where he admitted his identity when recognized From there he went to San Francisco and later to Southern California according to the report Dewey r 16 ”L D S Journal History" August 4 1862 |