Good Old Days

8 years ago

The Commoner

July 18, 1890

A few days ago the bones of a white man sewed up in a sack were found on the shores of Pows Lake at Chatcolet. It is supposed the ghastly find had been washed up from the bottom of the lake during the high water of last spring and is the evidence of some foul murder.

The finding of the bones recalls an incident that may throw some light on the mystery, but who were the murderers and who the victim, are questions that will probably never be solved. About a year ago, on the bank of the lake, opposite and some two miles distance from where the sack of fles...