Las Vegas Age, January 12, 2004, Clark County, Nevada
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LAS VEGAS AGE
1/15/1916

MARION GOULD'S BODY IS FOUND

PROSPECTOR LOST IN MOUNTAINS PERISHED FROM EXPOSURE AND EXHAUSTION

    After a search lasting the greater part of a week, the dead body of 
Marion GOULD, the prospector who failed to return to Corn Creek on the 
evening of the {illegible}  he expected, was found by W. C. MORGAN and 
Joe MAY, who had been sent out by the sheriff's office to search for the
missing man.
    GOULD had evidently lost his sense of direction, or was demented, 
for his tracks were followed many miles, sometimes approaching within an 
eighth of a mile of the railroad where help would have been found. Then 
he would circle back to the hills and wander in an erratic course until 
death finally overtook him.
    The body was brought to Vegas Monday evening and an inquest held by 
Judge HARKINS on Tuesday.  W. G. MORGAN, Joe MAY and Sheriff GAY all 
testified as to the search for GOULD after he was reported missing.
    The coroner's jury, consisting of J. P. NICHOLSON, foreman, D. 
PETTY, N. K. LEAVITT, W. K. KINNEAR, H. J. WOODARD and A. H. KRAMER 
brought in a verdict that GOULD died from exposure and exhaustion some 
time between the 1st and 10th of January.