State v. Welch

On Sunday afternoon, December 27, 1925, two hunters observed the body of a dead man in Skelly Gulch on the Fletcher ranch, a remote spot in Lewis and Clark county. Their attention was first attracted by a bloody trail in the snow, indicating the course over which the body had been dragged. They notified the sheriff of the fact and he, with one of the hunters, and some others, proceeded to the Fletcher ranch, arriving there about midnight. On this ranch there is a log cabin, which serves as a dwelling-house, with a door in the east end. At the west end and four or five feet distant from the…