Clark County NV Archives Obituaries.....TAYLOR, Unknown January 1919
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Las Vegas Age - 2/1/1919
Las Vegas Age

2/1/1919



PROSPECTORS KILLED NEAR THE COLORADO



MUTILATED BODIES OF HANCOCK AND TAYLOR DISCOVERED BY SEARCHING PARTY



    HANCOCK and TAYLOR, the report of whose mysterious disappearance from

their camp in the Colorado river country below St. Thomas was first

published in the Age of last week, were foully murdered according to all

indications.

    Their bodies were found in a badly mutilated condition and partly eaten

by wild animals.  The following telegram received by Sheriff Sam GAY

contains about all the information obtainable up to the time of going to

press:

    "St. Thomas, Nevada, January 30, 1919-TAYLOR and HANCOCK bodies found on

the 29th.  They were killed on the 13th.  Bodies badly mutilated and eaten

by wild animals.  Looks like two men did the murdering.  We did not touch

the bodies.  District attorney and posse better investigate.

    "Harry ARMITAGE left a boat with food and bedding at Boulder Canyon on

the 24th.  We found boat in an eddy two and a half miles below.  Looks like

it had been plundered and turned loose.  Bodies of men are in a canyon about

a mile from the river near the old Liston mine.  We expect you to come with

coroner at once.

                    JNO. F. PERKINS."

Mr. PERKINS and a party from St. Thomas have been searching for a number of

days for the missing men.  It appears that TAYLOR and HANCOCK left their

camp on January 13th, taking with them only a lunch and a water bottle.

They left one man in camp.  When the two failed to return that night, the

survivor made what search he could and several days later when the team came

from St. Thomas to take them in the hunt {illegible}.

    District Attorney STEBENNE, Coroner LILLIS, Joe KEATE,  Ray WEBER and N.

F. HOOD left Las Vegas by auto at 1 p.m., Thursday and went to the scene of

the crime.  They have not yet returned.

    It is still the opinion of the officers that those on the posse hunting

the murderer of Mrs. Maud DOUGLAS and the two prospectors, that the crimes

were all committed by the same man and that man, Indian QUEHO.  In support

of this theory, the tracks from Nelson were followed through miles of rough

country to a cave in the almost inaccessible mountains.  There a 12 guage

gun cartridge which appeared to have been recently discharged was found.

The shot from this cartridge are believed to have killed Mrs. DOUGLAS.  In

the cave they also found an Indian basket and some other things used by

Indians, including a "fire stick" used by Indians to make fire, with some

cotton, etc.

    There are now in the possee hunting the murderer, Undersheriff Frank

WALT, Deputy Sheriff I. W. ALCOCK, Joe MAY and three Indian trailers.

    Joe KEATE is working in the vicinity of where the bodies iof HANCOCK and

TAYLOR were found under the direction of District Attorney STEBENNE.  The

recent rains with snow coming down to a low altitude in the mountains adds

much to the difficulty of the man-hunt.









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