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Murdered andFate of Abram D. Gillr^L :I ius mystery of the disappearance of\ . (fill is .solved* He was funnier-«* i0 i mhercniatcd. The cagrees leadingtn» lt;r the tragedy enacted*oh the loin ]yn lt;. inttiui are yuta mystery, but ove,n tli m* will become known and the inur-d jr.N will vet bo brought to the bar of---—-------------%-*r -»»— T -- -— - — | || .-—lt;«■ y-T7--II I Ijii-.ire.\. I), (till was last seen alive in Oe~ lul-er.of last year, when he left llie ( «»!iurn rauoh^Jliound, presumably J’or tic Mis*ouri river. He rode an ordili-w\ . MaiitinTfnugged saddle, on his well tii.w’ff“wlitte-lini^e, hranflud~ quarter- He, circle. .His saddle blanket was1 od one. After several weeks had-. *110 by. his absence became generallyfmtxi'crelfmt urtfshim, until the following spring when ins brothers came out from the ea-d .t’.ii made sown* inquiries. These efforts * *re t'ruTllbvSS bovoml establishing the t ict that a young half breed in knocking around, had stumbled upon the car-c*ass of a recently killed white horse, branded as was Gill’s horse, And with a red stained back. When the boy first found the horse it had not been killed more thaLua.wcck or two, as it was in good shape, and the bullet hole in the forehead as plain us if made but i he day before, and the clotted blood was still in tlie animal*# nostrils andrcriTclfr % ♦/ nothing of (rill, his horse nor his disappearance, and if he .ever mentioned tin* finding of the horse, it vyas to his immediate circle which was a -limited one. It was only after the oifer of a toward ol^oOU. by the brothers that old man Sorrel te, himself a half breed, learned of the l\orse* made a trip to Ilarlenfand acquainted the brothers with the fact. This was about Seven months after the horse had been killed and nothing then remained but the bunes, and they seent to have attached little importance to the boy’s state-nu-nt*Tin matter never left old nian Sor-irolls mind, and last week he journeyed again to this high, wooded butte, where the bones-of the horse lie blenching in the sun, and gave the ground another luspectioii. Not Tar from these bones he found evidence of a big camp fire,-andJdtlkmcr_jin Ihe aslies he found tlielower jaw bone of a man. with one end burned away, and the united ulnia and radius—the bones of the lower arm. These satisfiedchim of the manner in which liili had met his death, aild he rnmiu no fnrrirer •-afrsn'tthr-lTPt nardeshave .gone to the scene today, and we hope Io be able‘to give more definite information next week, as thev will thorough h ^itt the ashe* and examineThnsrounTl iir llitr vieinii v. - If-this iiu_ ^ _ fc,- ydiauV tliet»r\ prove eorrcetjand it looks, plausible, ft til vva* eitliet murdered in the vallev and carried, to the hill lt;m his own horse, or was made prisoner and faknu to thohigh butte, vvhero both he and ris horse were killed, and (»ill1s*body, afterward cremated* If so* itdo*‘s nut seem probable that any one individual was concerned in his murder bn* that two or more operated to--getirrr mrrhcoiTclxrd^ii t o^fenrrpTt ll^ovi^tdoner of his existcuce through the medium of the funeral pyre.It TV* .diffletdtlo believe that-Mr. txill had evor'givetl a nlan of the ordinary* typo *‘au$o for enmity to the extent that vvoul I have led to the dogging of his J fnoK'eps h\ day and by night, with rr 1 heart Jaullv bont oil mischief, lienee.» it-4** Uh)k--Uu bi^-mu rlt; 1 eiweix among the abnormally developed,} thi* uneducated, and the l4\pe more mail* approat hiug tho animal in brutish itiiiuei, actuated and governed only by motives and passions far below
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Malta Little Rockies Miner
Malta, Montana, US
Thu, Aug 15, 1907
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