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Show i rav cniiRin put wsiii ic i - Hill I HIUBII, Hill MULL lo 1 Hagbert Anderson, court house cus- I todian, this morning found the re- I mains of a dead man in the junk-shed In the yard behind the court house. fHe vras trying to make things "shipshape" "ship-shape" in the storage room. Removing Remov-ing a large pile of cement sacks, he was startled lo behold on the floor where the sacks had been piled a large portion of a human skeleton, minus the skull. Mr. Anderson vas completely mystified. mysti-fied. He tried to make himself be-, be-, heve it had been a dog, or a dumb r animal of some kind, but the more he I examined the frame, the more he was ; convinced it was a man. Finally, vex- ' ed by the mystery, he picked up the skeletpn and pitched it into the ce- i nient ashpit Mr. Anderson soon afterward told : his assistant, George W. Bain, about ; finding the strange assortment of i bones. Mr. Bain went to "look-see" , and exclaimed- "Gracious' That's a ist 1 1-" i 'ii i i nl I'wnii'iiii ' ii ifi kuj. man's skeleton!" He remembered the history of it. A dead man was discovered in the foothills northeast of the city last spring, when the snow was off the ground, and was brought in by Deputy Sheriff J. Lou Hobson. Sheriff De-Vine: De-Vine: had the skeleton held for identification. iden-tification. The flesh had been eaten off the bones by the coyotes. The months passed and in the excitement of the political campaign and subsequent subse-quent changes in office, the skeleton was completely forgotten. Certain mischievous school-boys knew it was in the storage room behind be-hind the court house, however, and they had begged vainly to be given the skull, which they desired to use for "scaring" purposes. One day last October the jail trusty negligently left open the junk-room door and the boys slipped in and abducted the skull, which they used, it is said, In all kinds of merry Hallowe'en pranks. The pres- ent whereabouts of the skull is a mystery. mys-tery. It was an unusually fine, large skull, and the teeth showed careful dental care. Three teeth wore gold-plated. gold-plated. The dead man was never Identified, but was believed to have been a Japanese, Jap-anese, who mysteriously "perished in the foothills. Gazing solemnly and sympathetically sympathetical-ly at the skeleton, Hagbert Anderson said: "Well, what shall we do? Shall we hold a wake; or sing over it and have a burial? 'Tis unmistakably a man's remains." The report flew that a dead mnn had been found behind the court house. oo |