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Show GRUESOME TRAGEDY IN PIOCHE SHAFT A tragedy, enacted somewhere within with-in the conflne9 of this district, is th? muto story told by three skeletons unearthed in tho bottom of a 50-foot shaft On the property of the California Cali-fornia Plocbo Mining company bj William Wheatley and his son, Ebeo Wheatley, last Saturday, says the Pioche Record. One of tho skeletons is that of a man; another that of a woman, while the third is that of a dog; whom th? perpetrators of the deed probably threw into the shaft to cover up the last traco of a double crime. On top of these gruesome remalnB wero piled several feet of largo rocks and boulders, bould-ers, which give unmistakable evidc-nce that tho victims were murdered la cold blood. The bones were badly rotted, b-jt the skull of tho woman, containing an ugly fracture just above where oae of the ears should be, was exceedlnlr well preserved. The man's skull u broken into several pieces. Nothing was left In the way of Identification, bo completely did tho murderers plu and execute the horrible deed. So It la probablo that It will nerer h known who the persona were who- bodies havo reposed in the shaft undiscovered un-discovered for years and it Is equally certain that the names of their eie-j cutlonere will never come to light Tho shaft Is located in a Iccel.r gulch about fifty yards below the nab works of the California Pioche miw. |
