convicted and after his conviction had been ussuccessfully appealed to
the Idaho Supreme Court, he was hanged from a gallows constructed at
the New York Mill, one mile below Silver City, on Oct. 1h, 1881. Prio
to his death, .he conceded that he had been present at Meyers! murder
and helped £0 dispose of the body, but claimed that others had killed
the old man.
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convicted and after his conviction had been ussuccessfully appealed to
the Idaho Supreme Court, he was hanged from a gallows constructed at
the New York Mill, one mile below Silver City, on Oct. 1h, 1881. Prio
to his death, he conceded that he had been present at Meyers' murder
and helped to dispose of the body, but claimed that others had killed
the old man.
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convicted and after his conviction had been uasuccessfully appealed to
the Idaho Supreme Court, he was hanged from a gallows constructed at
the New York Mill, one mile below Silver City, on Oct. 1h, 1881. Prio:
to his death, he conceded that he had been present at Meyers' murder
and helped to.dispose of the body, but claimed that others had killed
the old man.
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McDONALD, Henry
McDonald, a 3h-year-old white man, had worked both as a butcher and as
a railroad laborer in Boise, Idaho, On October 27, 1880, he left Boise
on the stage travéihing the Overland Road to Kelton, Utah, and confinued
on it until it overtook 60-year-old George Meyers, mtkkom a teamster
with whom he was acquainted, McDonald left the stage and got into
Meyers wagon with the intention of their traveling together, A few
days later, McDonald drove the wagon and team back to Boise alone, say-
ing that he had purchased them from Meyers, Suspicion that he might
have murdered the teamster was aroused when he tried to claim a horse
that Meyers had boarded with a friend, McDonald left town, but the
suspicions were voiced to the Sheriff and he followed McDonald to Di-
toe's Station where he was arrested on Nov, 12 and returned to Boise,
McDonald escaped jail in January but was recaptured ten days later and
when Meyers! body was found hidden in a canyon near the Line dividing
Cassia and Owyhee Counties, it was necessary to have a surveyor run
a line to determine which County had jurisdiction, They surveyor's
report indicated that Owyhee County was where the crime had occurred
and McDonald was indicted and tried in Silver City where he maintained
that Meyers had been accidentally trampled to death by horses, He was
McDONALD, Henry
McDonald, a 3l-year-old white man, had worked both as a butcher and as
a railroad laborer in Boise, Idaho, On October 27, 1880, he left Boise
on the stage travihing the Overland Road to Kelton, Utah, and confinued
on it until it overtook 60-year-old George Meyers, mikknm a teamster
with whom he was acquainted, McDonald left the stage and got into
Meyers wagon with the intention of their traveling together, A few
days later, McDonald drove the wagon and team back to Boise alone, say-
ing that he had purchaped them from Meyers. Suspicion that he might
have murdered the teamster was aroused when he tried to claim a horse
that Meyers had boarded with a friend, McDonald left town, but the
suspicions were voiced to the Sheriff and he followed McDonald to Di-
toe's Station where he was arrested on Nov, 12 and returned to Boise.
McDonald escaped jail in January but was recaptured ten days later and
when Meyers' body was found hidden in a canyon near the line dividing
Cassia and Owyhee Counties, it was necessary to have a surveyor run
a line to determine which County had jurisdiction, They surveyor's
report indicated that Owyhee County was where the crime had occurred
and McDonald was indicted and tried in Silver City where he maintained
that Meyers had been accidentally trampled to death by horses, He was
INcDONALD, Henry
McDonald, a 3i-year-old white man, had worked both as a butcher and as
a railroad laborer in Boise, Idaho, On October 27, 1880, he left Boise
on the stage trav#thing the Overland Road to Kelton, Utah, and confinued
on it until it overtook 60-year-old George Meyers, mikinm 2 teamster
ith whom he was acquainted, McDonald left the stage and got into
Meyers wagon with the intention of their traveling together, A few
days later, McDonald drove the wagon and team back to Boise alone, say-
ing that he had purchased them from Meyers, Suspicion that he might
have murdered the teamster was aroused when he tried to claim a horse
that Meyers had boarded with a friend, McDonald left town, but the
suspicions were voiced to the Sheriff and he followed McDonald to Di-
toe's Station where he was arrested on Nov, 12 and returned to Boise.
McDonald escaped jail in January but was recaptured ten days later and
when Meyers' body was found hidden in a canyon near the line dividing
Cassia and Owyhee Counties, it was necessary to have a surveyor run
2 Line to determine which County had jurisdiction, They surveyor's
report indicated that Owyhee County wa:
that Meyers had been accidentally trampled to death by horses, He was
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