100 years ago in Spokane: Police suspect Gonzaga student found dead in Montana was murdered

From our archives, 100 years ago

Gonzaga student Dallas Greene, 19, had been missing for a month when his father, J.W. Greene of Spokane, had a dream in which he saw the boy being “killed by a man with an ax.”

The father then went to a campsite near Troy, Montana, where his son had last been seen. There, he and police officers searched the area, and in a brushy thicket they found his son’s body. Murder was suspected.

After a manhunt, police arrested Jack Miller, with whom Greene had been camping. Police said that Greene and Miller had been in the process of transporting horses and other stock to Spokane when Greene disappeared.

Police discovered that Miller had subsequently gone into town and sold a team of horses, two ponies, a wagon and a harness – similar to the stock and merchandise that belonged to Greene – for low prices. Miller vanished after making the sale, yet police later nabbed him near Marion, Montana.

The investigation was continuing.

From the zoo beat: Three white-tailed deer escaped from the Manito Park Zoo a week earlier, yet officials were not exactly anxious to catch them.

In fact, the deer were spotted in the park recently, where they “played with children,” but officials made no effort to corral them.

“We figure that after a while, the deer will tire of the outside life and enter the corral of their own accord,” said the park foreman.