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IDAHO COUNTY FREE
PRESS
APRIL 6, 1905
Gerhardt Behrens
Gerhardt Behrens was found by Herbert Thorpe and Frank Rogers in the ditch
that carried water to his mine about a mile from the cabin.
A coffin was made at the Gott company camp and a grave dug by the grave
of the murdered Waln, (Wahn), and in the presence of a small assembly of rough,
but sympathetic miners, the body of the poor old man was lowered tenderly to its
last resting place on the crest of a wooded hill overlooking the scene of his
years of toil for gold.
The first knowledge of his disappearance was when his pet cats came to the
Thorpe & Toler camp in search of food.
It was presumed he was stricken while away from his home and covered by
eighteen inches of new snow.
Behrens was 74 years of age and one of the oldest settlers in Warrens district,
having gone there in the rush that boomed that camp forty years ago.
So far as known he had been out but once in all those years, and that was
two years ago when he went to Portland to undergo a surgical operation.
During those years Behrens had lived by himself at his cabin in Secesh meadows,
where he owned and worked a placer claim. He
was so eccentric that no one would work for him, and he would not allow a
stranger to spend a night in his cabin. He
was of German descent, with no known relatives in this country.
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