Show murder mystery cleared up new yok july 25 A herald special from Win elead conn saye the 1 0 double which was committed over twenty five years ago in canaan twenty west of here hag been unraveled byn letter received here list night california addressed to county beader on june 13 solomon was digging in a field on hi farm which 19 bounded on the north by the bracke of the philadelphia lending and kaw kneland railroad lio unearthed to skeletons old canaan at once recalled the sudden and oi two men during the construction of the railroad the road was opened in 1871 while it was being built a large gang of men made canaan their headquarters two notorious in the acre luijt alike llou lihan and hh nephew pat they disappeared one afternoon after a brawl little was thought then 0 their disappearance big mike was a giant in stature while hie nephew was email the two found correspond to this description and now cocce tho letter to alio lead M it ie by antonio slattery cry 0 sin joae cal and tells a singular story slattery says that lie recently picked ap by chance in n doctors n cony ot the leader the korv of the fi cipf iho skeletons on barlows 1 at once recalled that twenty tour years ago lie worked in alio anino sang ot laborers with big mike and hi nephew kyan wae well acquainted with both also knew the man who killed them this latter he eaid was one pat alias fatty alsa a railroad laborer and a of the equal the murder waa tho outcome of a drunken row in 1889 writes bo met on a railroad in oregon had j bet been fatally injured in a smash up and recognized that death was near ue calleri to slattery cry and eaid 1 I am boink over the divide this cure eo set lather woolcy for I 1 killed ilie baye be alie priest who alie lael of atie dying mau woolcy slat tery writes is now stationed bluee county ore |