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Show Skeleton Found, Then Losk; Officers Probe Paragoraafi Mystery The nitciy of a human skeleton skele-ton found: iy deer hunters in the n.o'uiUiinous oimn.ry near P. ra-gonah ra-gonah and its subsequent complete disappearance has local officers ij.'fflui :'iid the interest of the citizen., if this a:ea a: a higli pitch The discovery was repor ed to She iff S. C. Lamb late Siturci.o i vi:i:ng by Loyal Miliett and Frank Booth or San Bernardino. California, Californ-ia, who had been hunting deer in the I: lis near Paragonah. Accord -.i:r' o tlvlr story Miliett and Booth became separated; and a few minutes min-utes later Booth met another hunter hun-ter whom he assumed lo be f.orn 'u. vicinity. The two proceeded ui? the fan;. on, eventually coming out on a large flu', rock to get a view of t'.''o surrounding territory. At their feet- they discovered an old S.'va::o rifle and si ting propped in the .-helter 01 the rock they found a skeleton of a man. The rus'incsr. of the gun and the bleach-' ed condition of the bones indicated that they had been there for .several .sev-eral years. A minute examination was made of the skileton, I7rot.h reporting that the skull showed no .signs of injury and that on the left arm was found a Wrist watch with a me al band. Booth's coinpan.on suggested taking tak-ing the bones and gu:i to town and turning them over to the Sheriff. '.:ut Bootli insisted on leaving thing.i as they had found them, reporting he discovery to the officers anci letting them make an investigation. The two men retraced their steps and on a hill a short distance away met a third hunter, also believed by Boo'h to le a lo:a! man. The thid hunter, 011 hearing the story, 'jftfvcd to notify officers, whom, he d. we v .camped not far down tho tanyon. Booth left the two men and returned to his own camp, while the other two presumably went ill seai-.'h of officers to report the discovery. Later that night Booth mid Miliett, who weie regls- crecl at a lic.il hotel, retimed to Cedar City where they contacted "-iff Lamb and told their story. Early Sunday morning Sheriff 'orb. Deputy Sheriff Claude Mac-f.ulane, Mac-f.ulane, Booth and Miliett retum-tci retum-tci to the hunting a:ea and Booth ieci the officers to the s:ot he claimed claim-ed the skeleton had been found. No trace of the skeleton cr '.'tin could be found, however. ' After making a cursory examination examina-tion of the spot, the officers returned re-turned to the deer camp wherv police officeis Arthur Nelson and Pcio Wood were camped, thinking the cl.scovery had been reported to thrin find that they had investigated investi-gated and removed the evidencp. Nelson and Wood, however, had tv.t been no' If led nul had made n Investigation. All the c.eer camps in the vicinity vicin-ity v.cie .hen v.sited and H'vcral n.Uitci.s Questioned in an eftort to i'.iin the identiy of the two local in il icfer.'cd to by Booth. The met with no su cess. Siicrllf Lanio und Chief Deputy Ray Adams again visi'cd the vicinity vi-cinity es. inlay afte noon, but clue to the mud and snow were unable ii' reach the ,s,.o:. The of fleers ait continuing their iiivestig.i'ton, and a.s soon as it is jXsv,iblo 10 net into the country, a detailed sentch w;!l I'e made of the aiea. Off a els announce that they ale fully convinced the skeleton was ehscove c;l as Booth reported, and :;c. vaiice two 'henries which might a cin: for the.r failure to f.nd It later. Tne fust Ls that the IWo local men. as ;rt unidentified returned re-turned to the sot and letnoved the ev.drla'e rhietlv In o'e'rr to he. jCti:e the 1:1111 and watch, will !i. ap-j-arei'.t'y. v 1 0 worhV-; rn I t!i? ..ecvnd i., that nce'Ji. 11 M'ni'gil' to : In 'til:. tv. lie a ue co:;fii.' and l''(l the oflicls to ti.e W'nnr spo'. It wa-. ;iii'e o'T ti .it tile cl .-rov-! e.v w.'s n: :de in a r"ck s'ude airu I rxtendtn ' about a qua: h r of 1 j mile miter t Mr tivivi anl tii.r to , .''vi-otie una ciualnted wit'i the ( nr. a rouM .1 'v mistake nve larire ! :ok for iiiiother, due to the j. ml-iliiiity ml-iliiiity ol the Various JiU'iia: ionj. |