Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-08-15 | Page 15 | Ogden Woman Owns Gun Said to Have Been Used by Custer in Massacre

Ogden Owns Gun Gun- Said to to Have Been Used I II IBy I By j Custer Guster III In Massacre jl ossa ere r- r va I II I C CI I I ti I nl of l I It sah said A large la-gc revolver rc o n owned cI by Mrs fr James to be one of the lie gun guns taken from front the ho body boily of ot General C CuMer ter follo the ho ma ma In fn 1870 1876 It was vas Jhen ghen lo to Mrs Irs Waldron liy by h an Indian scout Miss Blanche Critchlow Is shown hown posing it tin tin- relic IF F ALL AL the tho guns reported to have ha IF 11 I been found upon General George GeorgeA A Custer Cu ter following the tho bloody massacre are arc authentic then then- then 4 he famous tighter fighter must have havo packed a large sized arsenal when ho wen went Into action against the Indians At almost every mention of General Custers Custer's name namo someone comes for for- forward forward ward tor-ward ward with a 0 gun which n they claim the was the generals general's personal weapon capon Mrs James Waldron of however seems to ho hato Just about as good a claim as anybody tat that a revolver given to her by an old Indian scout be- be belonged belonged be belonged longed to the famous warrior swe nS TO STATEMENT ST Mrs Mrs- Irs Waldron Valdron says tho the man who gave her the tho weapon as 0 a keep keepsake sake was as dependable and honest He snore sl that ho himself was ono one of the tSe first upon the b battlefield after the tho massacre and he heun he lie Un- Un un strapped the the belt from around General Custers Custer's waist with hol- hol hot hol holsters stars containing two guns In the tho OOs Mr Waldron alron was as a conductor on tho th ho Oregon Short Line living In Pocatello Theror The for for mer Indian scout whose whoso name was Barney Darney McCo McCoy worked under him himas himas as a 0 brakeman McCoy had the two revolvers end and the belt which ho he took rom om C Custers Custer's ster's bod The The- Theold old scout left the railroad to go to Alaska and since has not departure been heard from Upon hi his depar depar- ture he hI h presented one ot of the pistols to Mrs Waldron as ns a 0 gift gilt of ap appreciation preel for or the friendship him by the family lie He told Mra Irs Waldron at that time that In years to come como the the tho gun would be cry ery valuable and urged her hr to guard it cardull carefully lie He added that some day someday the facts would woul 1 come como out re regarding garding the guns that Custer car ned the numbers would be traced and the relic would become famous HAS IUS TAMPING T ROD lIOn The gun has Ivory ory grips and Is very delicately engraved Some parts are heavily gold plated It Is i ot of the tho ball and yap gap ap typo type and to load It Is necessary to put pat the powder wadding an and 1 ball In the revolving cylinder and tamp it with a IL rod which Is fastened to the tb gun barrel The hammer how that the gun has been discharged man many times On one Ivory grip Is ia Isan iaan an engraving said to bo ho cut to represent nt the tho head and face ot of o the general The number Is plainly visible andIs and Is to be bo sent to the Colt company and the Iho war department traced to b be