BELLAMY, SAMUEL-News Article
Worland Grit no. 28 June 02, 1910, page 1
LOCAL NOTES OF INTEREST
A
sheepherder named Samuel Bellamy in the employ of Dr. Walker, of Hyattville,
was found dead on the Nowood range this week from the effects of a pistol shot,
supposed to have been self inflicted.
Big
SHEEP HERDER
SUICIDES.
On last Friday the news was telephoned
from Hyattville that Sam Bellamy, a sheep herder in the employ of Dr. Walker,
had been found dead in his wagon at a point a few miles from Teusleep, where he
was in charge of the doctor's band of sheep.
The camp tender who found the body had made no investigation and there
was no information as to the manner of his death. When the
matter was brought to the attention of Sheriff Alston, that official telephoned
Al Morton, justice of the peace at Tensleep, authorizing him to make an investigation.
He did so, and a few hours later reported to the sheriff that it was a clear
case of suicide. It seems that Bellamy, who was about 32 years old, had told
some one on the night preceding the finding of the body, that they bad better
send some one else to care for the sheep, as he was going to quit. When the
body was found, it was sitting on a box beside the bed, with the gun lying on
the bed. There was an empty cartridge in the gun and the bullet had passed
through the man's heart, out through the back, and out of the window.
Dr. Walker, who was away at the time, was called home by wire, passing
through Basin on Wednesday. Sheriff Alston notified the father of the dead man,
Mr. J. T. Bellamy of
NOTE.
Shortly after this Dr. Walker moves to