A Ghastly Find

For two mout lt workmen have been excavatltog ;it Falrbault, Mimi., lof the foundations of a new theater building. êite - uu the principal Btreet of the city, almost opposü post office nul the leadlng hotel. Fronting the Btreet there is a bed ui KimlsUme. l'.ohinil tliis is soft claycy eartli. The sandstone was lirst cut Hirou.üh aad then ww-l; was begon on the clay. Here it was ïound that a collar ui some kind had fonnerly been built, tbough It vas now IlUed with carth. White i workman was (lisging in a oormer oí tliis cellar on the aftcrnoon oí May 8th, his piek nnearthed Bomething that lookod like the boues of a nian's arm. A fow inore blOWB ol tho piek ;iiul a akeleton was brouiiln to view. Phyalclans examined the bonea and prónounced them to be thosc oí a wnina.n. llie find did not at lirst excite any mmsual interesi, as it was suppnsed that the ■kefeton was the rcinains of some ]erson buried yeara ago in the ordinary way. lint on ClOBÖT examination one of the doctors made a discovery. He found a three cornorod liroak in the tkuil nader the right ear- a break like that whlch be made with a heavy liammer. The ground whcro the nkcleton had been found was then gone over carefally. Xear where it had laiu were unoarthcil a buteher knife and a rusty hatehet. Tlie skeleton was four and a half feet in lengtli. Alter au examination of the teeth it s decided that the bones werethose of a girl not moro tlian 18 or 19 years, old at the time of lier death. clue to a crime has been dlacovered Everyone was convinced that the and an almost forgotten ehapter of bistorj was recalled by ohl residente. On the ground where an exeavatlon is being made a llvery itable was built in 1SÖ7. It ivas destroyed by fire two years ago. l-'rom 1S52 to to 1875 tlifre .lood there the one building on the ground now covered by the town of Fairbault. Tuis building was an iim. a pOBtofflce, a stage office, a blackgmlth shop and a general Btore, It wa.s a stopping place for stages running from St. Paul to Rochester, further south, and lor people on tho way to the gold fields of California. The bolding waa a trame Btructure one and a-hall gtoriee high. Oíd Jacob Crows, who had ]u! it up and wlio ran the ton and general Btore, made ] ■ ■.. . 1 1 ■ made remittauces to the St. Paal bank by nearly every trip of the Bti Tinally a rival carne, and Crows began to loee inany oi hifi pespectable customers. Disreputable people ligan to hans about the place, and there were rumora oí queer doings in the inn at uight. Travelers i warned to clinn it. Stories were toid of mysterloua appearancee. Men would drive up to the tavern in lire twillght after a long jonrney and aak for food and lodging. They would enter, and that would be the last geen oi them. 'Tlicy liad a hard trip before them," oíd Jacob Crows would sa y to such as made casual Incpiiry, ■and got off long before dnylight." But horsi-s WOUld turn up days or Weeks later which looked vcry niuch like the anímala t hese travelera liad ridden. On June 12, 1S57. two gills, Vira and Addie Laivson, left St. Paul by the Burbank coach line. They were on their way cast front the Pacific ooaet. Their parents had died in California and they were going to relatives in Oonnectlcnt. Vira carried Wlth lier Í1, loii in gold, her iather's savinirs. The girl was Ineiperienced and had probably made no secret of the faet that she liad a iarge sntn of money in her po-session. It is not known whether the tt;i:.-[' driver tu .-i confedérate oí the crows' gang, but anyway the two giris were taken to the tavern and told to stop there for the night. They never ere Been agata. Il happened tha1 eome persons who had become ijiti'restcd in the girlB wliile on their Jonrney made inquirios about them. Oows wae quegtioned. He said that they had left the nexi morning, he UlOttght, lor the south. where taey could gel a train, lint tho ciuestionci-s wen' not t li pul off so casiiy. Investlgatlon developel the lact that the glrls had not reached their Immediate destination further down the line, and that they had not been seen to leave 'I'airbault. People now began to do more than wbiaper their Bosplciona and to polni meaningly. There was talk of kccuring Crows' arrest. On June 1'.. when thé' stage came in from St. Paul, the tavern was (leserted. Nota BOUl was about the place. Nobody had tieon the inmatcs leave. An examinetion of the house was made. Four rooms at the back were used for guests. One of these rooms revealed the went which had been puzzling the Boattered population of r.ice and Gooühne counties. In'it was fouml a cúrtala hanglng from the celltng to the flooc and serring :i a partltiOQ. Agalnflt this curtain was standing a taMe and by the table ITM a chair, with its back to the curtaiu. Doder the chair was a trap door tour teet square, opendag tato a celta between 10 and 15 toet (leep. Tbere wa a sllt through the curtain about on a level with the head of tiie perean when siaiag in the chair. It was tliouglit that when a travelcr carne to the taveru who waa supposed to have money hfl tal glven this room. Theii one oí tiie gang woulü liide behind the curlain with u haninier In his hand. When all was rt-ady the ïuurderer would deal Uw death-blow, trap door would le opened and the vk-tim would ïall tato the cellar. The body would iluii be 1-iiK-d and buried either ia Uie cellar or in the rear oi the house. The Burroundlflg country was ior a time oonsiderably excited over the matter, but no eíiort was made to bring the murdcrers to justiee. Neither VU any Bearch made ior the bodies ui poMibte victims. At llie time -1 cases were ïniiilionecl ol peopte who had been known to enter l'ruws' inn and who were never seen again. All this was reveah-d in l'airbault when the skeletou oí the girl was vered in the exeavatiou. A thorough search oi the plot oí ground was beguu with the resuit than eight other skeletona have been unearthed. Une oi these is a womaifs. lt is thought eertain that the tWO ieinak.sUeletDiis are those of the LawiOO girte. Au effort has been made to comiaunieate with the girls' relativis' ju Connecticut, but 80 lar without Buceen. At least uvii ol the male Bkeletons have been pretty po-itivrly ldentlïied by articles iound near thom. V.y one was a kniíe about 10 inehes long. on one side is the Inscrlption, ■Tin' gold fields of death ;" on the other . "Harry Mawson, ohio, 1855." Near the remalns i anothér man were a steol pocketbook and a Bllver coin. Ou one side is ennravrd. -Remember mother ;" on the other elite, ('liarles B. Langton, Host on, Mass. Seven yeara old Oct. 13, 1839." Tiie same indentation of the Bkull was olwerved in the Bkeletons found. Usually it was over the right ear, büt eometimes it was on top of the Bkull. Langton's Bkull had three inhead and Bometimea at the base of dcntations aa though the man had made a struuiíle ior life. The plot oi ground b dug to i depth oi about 10 feet. It is pOMlbta that more sEeletons may be found further down. It is hoped that more of the remalns may be Identiiieil. Old people in this section of country are belag questioned as to tlieir knowledge oí travelers who p&SBed through at the time of the