| Show VETERAN IS SHOT BY HIS 1113 NEPHEW Oral Weir Confesses to Killing Aged Uncle Joseph G. G Weir I II r LURED HIM TO LONELY SPOT Shot hlll Dead pul In Saddle Polly Body and ami Co Concealed n I In Suge Sage i Brush Druh P Pagosa Springs Colo March larch 19 Public ling feeling against Oral Weir who shot and almost t In Instantly t killed his uncle Joseph Josph G G. Weir a veteran of ot the Civil war Friday Fr Fri Fri- ilay day I Is subsiding to today a and the thA law will probably be allowed to take Its course For Tor hours there was Imminent n danger r that a mob would form and lynch young ounG 11 Weir Sir fr The Th Jail where thu the prisoner is confined con con- tI fined d is 19 un under r a D. strong guard Ins erroneous report published in a 0 certain Denver Denvor afternoon paper that Weir Wei r was a wealthy wealth and prominent resident a of It t count county and that he hf was on or t his bis way wn to the bank to deposit a hug huge c Hum sum o of mon money y secured from Crom the sale gale o of cr r property rt he owned here when killed d II 1 Is 4 causing coulling much amusement Weir 11 wa was no noa not nOl nota nOla t a resident of tills this county and bud hud only y liven been here three weeks He Jle had no fans Cam ily lIy here and was wal not known to a half halt dozen persons Furthermore his name was not A B. B Belr but hut Joseph Josph Weir eJr The rhe bod body of or the dead man was found In III a a. clump of spire Sf brush In a lonel lonely spot In Blanco basin hasin where It had been carried carried carried car car- ried b by Oral In an effort to hide the crime A bullet hole bole In do the left Dr 1st made by hy a Winchester rifle showed howth how th the i old man died The coroner has gone one to the scene of oC the iJ ne to g get t the hod bod which wiM WI be brought to lo Pagosa Springs s. s An Inquest will be held as soon I us its I he h returns Bod Hotly Was as Robbed After ACler l being killed Weirs Weir's hod body was robbed of oC 0 50 in ill cash and over worth of checks l drafts and pension vouchers Ver Very little If IC ar any o of this paper was of or a n negotiable ne character was on a ho horse e when hen he hewan was wan killed and wu was unarm unarmed d. d The rider rider- less horse home e returned to the tho ranch ranh of or Thomas Alee Mee where m Weir We-Ir had hat been hoarding Hoarding hoarding hoard Hoard- ing with the saddle covered wn witTi i 1 Only one shot was fired at i th aged aced veteran ran the bullet Juliet going entirely G fough hits his hod body It Is estimated the shot hot was fired filed at tit about ten paces for or the tI hOl atti at ti III tIK- tIK point l of or entrance of or the ballet t wits large III There Is every reason to believe that young younK Weir ell coolly planned the death deith of or hl his uncle unell for what money moncy the latter carried car car- red ried with him which amounted to 10 KEO In III cash ant anc anC over J worth of or bank drafts and negotiable notes The nephew had th these c valuables valuable In labs his posse possession slon when ho was overtaken ant and arrested by bya y ya a citizens citizens' pos posse l' l e. e He lie refused to tell how he secured them thorn being pressed closer oger for tor Information concerning th the I whereabouts of the aged veteran yours Weir elt finally confessed that he and his has uncle had quarreled and that ho lie had shot sho the old man Young Weir had located a 0 homestead In the Blanco basin und and on l Friday In In n his uncle to go with him und and assist in doln doing some orno HO mo preliminary work cn th the claim This was the last lust time the ol olman old man was waH seen alive A A. few hours houlB later luter the nephew phew returned to the home house o of 01 Thomas rhomas Mee Iel where both hoth he and hi his uncle ha had bad been stopping and told th the story of or his uncles uncle's sudden lIddell and unexpected peeled return to 10 Kansas Me lie Ice suspected CIll something was wron wrong and when towards evening young oung Wei announced his Intention o ot of going to Pagosa Pa Pa- Kosa gosa Springs the rancher ullI advised a against t ft It Weir Insisted however and amI left Mee ilee I called rolled on several s of oC his neighbors to 10 lake young Weirs Weir's trail A second pos poses posio o started for or the Blanco basin basic II to find the bod body hods of oC the tw old man Threatened tl U to Shoot When e overlook young Weir he lie threatened to shoot hoot them but was told that nil any resistance on his part would mean instant death clr then tried to throw awa away his hiM revolver This flits la It the weapon with which he Is supposed to toha ha have e killed his uncle Jo Joseph G C G. G Weir clr before beCore becoming bt an In- In mute mate of ot the soldiers soldier home at Leaven Leaven- e at it Cloud City Cliv Kun Kit lie He leaves leave nine children ren In that vicinity aswell as aswell w well us its a u divorced wife lre He lie was ag W years ear earold of old d. d Oral Welt Weir who killed him Is S years yeas yea's ears old and Is the son of or the dead vetera veterans veteran's twin brother Young 11 Well clr came to lo Pagosa Pagosa Pa- Pa gosa Springs SprInG's a a. month agog a ago o from Cia Clay Center Kan Kau Ito IIo worl worked d at 1 Pagosa Springs for Cor a a. few days das painting und and anda then en went to Blanco ba basin to loc locate a homestead It Is Ig believed that Joseph G. G Weir was aces killed some distance from the spot why wh where rl l his bis hod body was wag found tbd Slid hd that the remains re- re remains re mains had been hidden in the sago sage brush that wild animals animal would eat r In the hope it t them hern |
