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Show j DEAD IX THE BRUSH. Sam Gerrans, n Cornish Miner, j Fonnd TOntilated by Coyotes J Ifear Tintic. j Parties just in from Tintic bring news j of a horrifying discovery made in that j vicinity on Thursday last. Several herders herd-ers out in the mountains, some five miles distant from Tintic, found the body of a man lodged amongst the snow-covered , brush, and in a frightfully mutilated condition, although the features of the face were sufficiently well preserved to make recognition possible. pos-sible. One leg and one arm were torn from the body, presumably by coyotes, and it was the general impression that the unfortunate person had been dead but a short time. Those who arrived at the scene later easily recognized recog-nized the remains as being the bodv of Sam Gerrans. or as he is more generally known as "Mechatts." Mechatts had disappeared from the town very mysteriously about four weeks ago, and nothing had been heard of him since. It was on a dreary, stormy night that he left the cabin where, owing to his peculiar pecu-liar condition, he had been kept I under the vigilant watch of several friends. During the night the parties in the cabin, as well as others in the neighborhood, neigh-borhood, heard Mechatts shout out in a strangely wild manner: "Hold on, boys; I'm coming!" He jumped out of the cabin window and has never been seen since. His friends were unable to trace him in the storm and had not an idea of his whereabouts. The body was found in the vicinity of Greely Springs, and some of the herders had but a short time ago seen him rambling around among the cedars in what they described as a perfectly per-fectly wild state of mind, and subsisting on acorns and the like. It is supposed that the report is what led to the search and final discovery. Mechatts was a Cornishman, and had been in this country many years. He was a first-class miner, and had been engaged quite recently at the Eureka Hill. Some months ago he was sent for to testify in a mining suit in Nevada, and he brought back with him to this city considerable money, it is said, and lived a life of shocking dissipation lor weeks. Y hen last seen here, he was really living on whisky, not having eaten a bite of food for weeks. It was a habit with him to work steadily for perhaps six months at a time, and then spend his money in dissipation and extravagance. Personally he was very much liked among his acquaintances and was well known in most of the mining camps in the country. He has no relatives hereabouts, here-abouts, and it has not been learned as to what disposition will be made of his remains. |