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Show OGDENITE IS KILLED IN MONTANA James R. Ackaret, a former resident resi-dent of Ogden, now living at Paj -atte, Idaho, had a son killed near Divide, Montana, and gives tne following fol-lowing particulars of the tragedj : "About June 22 Deputy Sheriff Collins Col-lins of Butte, Mont., wrote mo that C. A. Ackaret was missing from his usual haunts at Divide so his mother aud I wont in search of him. I arrived in Butte on Saturday morning; went- to the court house and told my story to the officers and commissioners. They showed us every courtesy possible. pos-sible. They sent a posse of men to Divide, to a cabin where my son had been staying for some time and we located tho body in an old well at an abandoned quarry near hla cabin Tho coroner took the body to Butte and found he had been killed and thrown In the well There was a bullet hole in the left arm and side, passing through the hearL One, J. J. Smith, now in jail for other crimes, is the suspect I spent some days on the ground after the body was recovered. My deductions, which do not coincide coin-cide with the coroner's verdict in every particular, are these: My son was visiting friends on the 10th of April stayed over night and took lunch on the 11th about 3 o'clock with some other frlonds and started to his cabin which is the last time he was seen alive. Now, Smith had stolen a horse in Dillon on the 7th of April, also some grub, passed a sheep camp aud stole a rifle, came to my son's cabin about the night of the 10th and made a bed in an old cabin near tho one occupied by my Bon and waitod for him to come home, which he did on the night of the 11th. As my son walked unsuBpect-lnglv unsuBpect-lnglv along, 'with his left hand over the bowl of his pipe which he had lit for it waB full of tobacco slightly burned but no ash from his ambush, silting In the cabin, Smith fired the shot which killed him Instantly and then walked up to whore he lay and flrod a second shot Into his head, where tho first bullet, after turning, had come ou.t which accounts for the crushed condition of the head. The body was robbed of money and watcX the cabin of, gun, suit case, valise and what grub ho might have had. Smith then forged a letter to Mrs T. A. Allen of Payette which wo can prove Is his hand writing. Ho also had a watch which we have proven Is my son's. He also said he would kill him because ho was a witness against Smith in a fraudulent land contest. We will try to convict Smith of this in court this fall. "We burled the body at Divido among his friends who were very kind to us and did all they could to help us. - oo |
