Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1891 — DUG HIS OWN GRAVE. [ARTICLE]

DUG HIS OWN GRAVE.

A Ca Horn la Miner's Strange Death In a Canyon Near the Snow Line. The Sheriff of Fresno County, California, started into tho mountains in quest of two murderers. In a lonely canyon, the approach to which was almost inaccessible, ho found a complete set of miners’ tools, and upon further search the body of a man was found in an open grave, which was cut into the solid granite rock. Reside the grave was a note written in lead pencil, which read: “My name is Dave Meneer; I have lived like a devil, but will die like a man. Nov. 20.” The body was covered with transparent ice eighteen inches deep, which filled the grave. It is supposed that the miner, crazed by loneliness and disappointment, had dug the grave, laid himself in it, and drawing across his body a slab of granite, which still rested there, was drowned by the water which trickled into the excavation. The body was well preserved by the ice around it, which had not thawed since last fall.