The superintendent of the mine states that…

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t, but thought nothing of it. Needing another ladder he was compelled to go a little lower, when the body was plainly discernible and the discovery made. After obtaining all the information possible, the jury returned the verdict of “found dead in a shaft of the Aztec Mine.” The superintendent of the mine states that the Aztec company in September last caused the shaft house to be removed, but left a trap door over the bucket way, and the manhole was closed by a shed with a door which was fasten- ed. The only possible way for a man to get into the shaft was to crawl through a small opening in the south side of the shed, where a board had been torn off. It will be remembered that a Mexican by the name of Aval was shot dead in Pinos Altos last fall, and his assassin never captured. There is a theory that the body found might be that of the murderer, having been left there by the friends of Aval, who did not believe in awaiting the slow process of law for justice. The real facts in regard to the death will probably never be known. It is barely possible that the man might have fallen into the shaft, but the chances seem to be ten to one that he was assisted by others, either before or after his death. LOST CHILD