Slim Hickox was the caretaker of the Cashin Mine. He was a flamboyant character who carried a Colt .45. He also carried a money belt with a large amount of cash. He disappeared in 1923 and his decapitated body was found two weeks later in the oat bin in his barn. The Montrose Sherriff’s Department, located far away from Bedrock, Colorado, was unable to make progress on the case. The Michigan-Colorado Copper Company, which owned and operated the Cashin Mine, hired a Pinkerton detective to investigate. He apprehended a young man in a store who had an unusually large amount of money, and who was wearing Hickox’s watch. He confessed that a party of five, with the ringleader being a man named Gassway, had killed Hickox and chopped off his head so that authorities would not find the bullet.
