| Show BARTLEW IS DRATH DEATH BEING wounded I 1 AND HELPLESS OK AN DIED OF HUNGER AND SUFFERING an andrew d re par park esq writing from airfield aft un gives the dele der r tails of the dra deatti I 1 h of david avid bartlett a brief account of which has already appeared feared in the NEWS it seems that de in the employ ot of samuel and lewis carson carnon herding shee sheep he was left alone with the herd on le the ad dakof day of march and on the ath the carsons went out to find and better feed for he sheep lewis went fifteen miles south of fairfield to what is mown known as broad canon and wm WIB went to the camp when Lewis returned to camp he found that the sheep were in a very scattered condition avd and bartlett a browning rifle and two dons dogs were missing thinking something had happened lewis lemis came home got charles flack went back again andret andset and set up 4 search bearch for the missing man but night came on without finding him early on the morning of the esth L lewis and marles fres resumed umed the search going up the wain ridge on the motin moan tain left of thorps colon while riding along lewis thought he heard a dog bark they listened afew a few moments and it barked aifala again they immediately went vent to where the sound came calne from and found the little dog lying beside the dead body of the shepherd louis immediately ie returned turned to fairfield and unhearing on hearing the sad tidings toe the justice of the h peace had a jury summoned lud and with ot others ara started for the scene ot of the accident on arriving the jury held an 14 inquest over the body ap an account of bf which proceedings proceeding sw aas already appeared la in the NEWS columns W aben found he was cink on his DAW bask waff bis big right leg very badly broken the examination showed that the ball bal had e entered the back wet 0 of hib tant leg eg about four inches above the knee knee joint ranging ragging a little ti up thelima the limb and and comi coming 9 out in front the cause of the e accident was ascertained to lo be as follows au he WK was wa walking along the steep side fide of the mou mountain he be had tad slipped and falen probably trying tra tr catch himself wito with his gun chic A caused lt to be discharged ii resulting as stated some blood was found on OB the rocks where he fell ind and two loaded i cartrie cartridges es he was tracked seven bards alo along ane 9 e ne arde ot of the mountain aber ero he bid bad sat oat down and cut cat a hole inels clothing with his bis pocket knife to see the wound the knife was found there also part of a cigarette that he be baft bad been smoking a lew few feet from there he mao made a fire are with limbs which he had broken off ii a dry cedar jt it is supposed by the appearance pe arance of the place he had been b een there about t two wo 4 tays ays from there he had gone down the mountain about fifty yards to some green ereen cedars having evidently begun to feel very h angry by that time it at was found where no hn had been eating cedar berries to keep from starving ne he had picked them off the tree as far up as he be could reath the rs he endured must have been awful as it seems here mamed in that paint pain ul ui condition from the third until the bight of the sixth or morning of afie only indications of t is the party dould find was W se a rock with three straight marks on it he had evidently thus been keeping count of the days he had been there until he got too weak for further effort ott oil examining the gun it was found to tb be our sted close to the muzzle auzle le it being too close to his bis leg for the air to escape from tue barrel the deceased rah industrious hardworking hard working man and aid was highly respected by all who knew hm him I 1 I 1 |
