Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1913 — Sister of Monticello Man Is Killed by a Bear. [ARTICLE]

Sister of Monticello Man Is Killed by a Bear.

Monticello Journal. A dispatch in the city papers yesterday from Truckee, California, stated that after a week's search the body of Miss Yinnie Colt, 18, was found in a ravine in the Sierra Nevadas, twenty miles from that place. She had been killed and partly devoured by a bear. The girl ran away from home on Wednesday of last week because of a disagreement with her mother. Since her disappearance a search extending over a large section of the mountains had been made. It is thought the unfortunate young lady was a sister of Walter Colt, of Monticello, janitor of the high school building. On being shown |he dispatch Mr. Colt stated that his family lived at Truckee and that he had a sister named Yinnie, about that age. He also stated that he had an uncle living across the mountains some twenty or twenty-five miles and that his people often walked across, taking the mountain stage trail. Prom the circumstances disclosed in the dispatch he is convinced that it was his sister.