Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1907 — A MYSTERY CLEARED. [ARTICLE]

A MYSTERY CLEARED.

Body of Misslnif Brooklyn Million-, alre Found in Montana Cave. After a little more than a year the mystery surrounding the disappearance of Abraham Gill, a millionaire Brooklynite, was cleared the other day when his relatives in New York City received a dispatch from Sandusky, Mont., that his I remains had been found in a cave near the ranch which he had sold the day he disappeared. The body lay in a heap of I ishee and the belief is that he was robbed Dy "bandits, who bound him and then tossed him upon a pile of faggots to which they applied the torch. Gill, who was a young man. was" a graduate of the Polytehcnic Institute and a member of many exclusive clubs. After graduation he went to Montana, where he purchased a ranch to raise live stock. In 1906 Gill returned to Brooklyn, and after arranging for beginning life anew" in New York, he returned to his ranch «nd sold out to one George Cobin. Be-, fore doing so. however. as a United States marshal he succeeded in breaking up the aipst dangerous gang of thugs in Montana. This led the authorities to believe that the gang had killed him. The day of the sale Gill rode at night to the home of a friend, several miles from the ranch, to have the deed legally registered. This accomplished, he and Cobin. who is said to be a member of the gang Gill hail exterminated, started back to the ranch with the money" he had received from Cobin. He never again was seen alive. The day after Gill disappeared his horse was found near the point where his master had disappeared from view. It was within 100 feet of the cave where the charred bones of the deputy were found.