Of coarse we hear of murder but how many times do we hear of a confession. Well in the late 1800’s John Spicer did just that. He wrote down his confession on a piece of wood and with pencil in hand he wrote;
“To whoever may happen to find this confession, I, John W Spicer of the City of Fountain, State of Colorado, being about to shuffle off this mortal act to make this my full confession in the hope that when I am gone it may be found and at last clear up the darkest mystery that ever embraced one in human murder.
On or about the ___day of march, 1893, some four miles north of this city and two miles east of the foot of Cheyenne Mountain, I did kill and willfully murder with a club one John J Sebastian for his money and jewelry to the balue of $5,000.00 and did drag the mutilated body to a deep ravine some 500 yards distance from the point already mentioned in my confession and the _____ ______ ______its lonely last ____ ____ bring about to die, and _____ _____ find of the retribution that awaits here in the world to come are spending my last moments in prayer for the partial salvation of my soul.”
In 1986 this muder confession was found in the home while the occupants were doing some remodeling.
Built in 1869 it was also the home of Fountains first woman Mayor of 1942.
The house is the large Spanish two to the east of where you are standing.
If you like to see the piece of wood the confession was scribbled on the Fountain Historical Society has it in their museum
I am going to hide several caches in this area with descriptions of not only of the caches themselves but of Fountain Colorado history. This will be my 9th in a series. I hope that you not only enjoy the sport of geocaching but love history as I do. Thank You. This one is hard because everyone has trouble with their GPS at this location. I think it is just a wacky area. Still use common sense and it should be around in that area. I am amazed at how my geocaches seem to move about. It seems that people feel the need to move my caches because they think they know best, even though I scouted the area and watched it long before they ever were around. Sorry if it isn't in the same place that I put it but hopefully it is near by.