Cassia County ID Archives News.....Skeleton of young child September 22, 1928
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Twin Falls Daily News September 22, 1928
BURLEY- September 21 1928 (Special To The News)- Reports that the skeleton of 
this murdered Mexican, for whom the Sheriffs force has spent a fruitless 
search this spring,had been un-earthed took Coroner D.F. Johnson and Deputy 
Sheriff Steve Mahoney to Springdale Wednesday afternoon to take charge of the 
remains.
 There they found that Charles Dayley had uncovered the skeleton of a young 
child while digging a cellar. Little remained of the child except a few bones 
and a portion of the skull. The body had evidently been interred by Emigrants 
in early days, as the skeleton was found about 50 feet from the deep wagon 
ruts of the old Oregon Trail.
 Apparently this body had been placed in a rough coffin hastily made from the 
side board of an old prairie wagon. The wood portion of the improvised coffin 
had decayed almost to dust, but rusted irons used in those days to reinforce 
the wagon beds remained to give evidence of the kind of coffin used.
 The Childs remains were reinterred and covered over, and the little one again 
took its place in the great cemetery of the many hundreds that spent their 
lives to win the West and lie in hasty graves along this trail.
 No evidence or clue of name, or even initials was found with the bones

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