Murderer. Quehoe (Kay-ho) first spelled Quejo, sometimes Queho, once known as Long Hair Tom, began life as one of many peaceful Indians gathering wood for the mining boilers in Eldorado Canyon near Nelson, Nevada. He was born on Cottonwood Island near Nelson, Nevada around 1880 to a Cocopah Indian mother and a Paiute Indian man. She died not long afterward. Rumors exist that his father may have been a white soldier from Fort Mohave, Arizona but this is unlikely. Quehoe may have been treated as an outcast due to his mixed race or due to a leg deformity or clubfoot. Another report says that a badly healed broken leg caused him to leave distinctive tracks. Spanish speaking Indians gave him the name which is a derivative of the Spanish for grumbler or complainer. An unconfirmed report links him to the death of an Indian in 1897. In 1909 he killed N.H.Finney. In 1910 he murdered an Indian named Harry Bismark on the Las Vegas Reservation and then killed two more Indians making his escape. Shopkeeper Hy Von, caught him stealing supplies and in the confrontation had both his arms broken and and his skull fractured by a pick handle wielded by Quehoe who fled. Afterward he was linked to the death of 78 year old local woodcutter Joseph M. Woodworth, near Searchlight, Nevada. A posse including Indian scouts followed his distinctive tracks. The tracks led from the woodcutter to the Gold Bug Mine where they found the watchman, L.W. "Doc" Gilbert, shot in the back and his badge missing. A short time later two miners, William Hancock and Eather Taylor, at Jenny Springs were found shot in the back and their provisions stolen. An Indian woman in the area was found dead and all these murders were blamed on the renegade. Certainly not all murders attributed to Quehoe were done by him, including one person said to have been murdered by Quehoe who later turned up alive. Lawmen continued to track him unsuccessfully as thefts including cattle and more murders were discovered. In January 1919 he used a shotgun to murder Maude Douglas when she investigated a noise she heard coming from the food storage area known as a larder. Afterward two prospectors were found dead near Eldorado Canyon. Both had been shot in the back and one had his head smashed with an ax handle. Their supplies were gone and Queho's footprints found at the site. Several more prospectors bodies were found while searching for him. At one camp five prospectors were found shot with Quehoe's tracks linking him to the murders. Evidence of his trail including still warm campfires were found, but Quehoe could not be located. A substantial reward was also offered. In February 1930 he was spotted by a Las Vegas policeman walking down Fremont Street. The officer summoned reinforcements, but by the time they arrived, Quehoe was gone. It is believed that Quehoe may have been responsible for the deaths of twenty-three to thirty people. On February 19, 1940 prospectors found his mummified body in a cave above the Colorado River about 13 miles south of the Hoover Dam. A burlap bandage on his leg may indicate that a snakebite was the cause of death. Found in the cave was a 12-gauge Hopkins & Allen double-barreled shotgun with shells that matched those found by the body of Maude Douglas. Other items included a Winchester Model 94 .30-30 rifle, cooking utensils, bows, arrows and Doc Gilbert's badge No. 896. Another report states that items stolen from the Hoover Dam job site were also found in the cave which would be additional evidence that Queho had lived into the 1930's.
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No one knows why Roland Wiley purchased the remains of Quehoe and interred his bones above Cathedral Canyon, except to put an end to the strange journey for Quehoe's remains. Quehoe's body was found in 1940 by two prospectors, Arthur Schroeder and Charles Kenyon, causing immediate disputes over who owned the remains. Taken to Boulder City, Nevada fights broke out over ownership. The corpse was put on display in a glass case at the courthouse. Later taken to Palm Funeral Home in Las Vegas, Nevada and again put on display in a glass topped coffin. While disputes arose over ownership, storage costs accrued. When it became known that there would be expenses involved to acquire the remains, those claiming to be his heirs disappeared. Three years later the funeral home advised that if no one came forward they would cremate the remains and scatter the ashes. Frank Wait, the sheriff who once hunted Quehoe paid the bill. He donated the remains to the Elks Lodge. The lodge was in charge of the Las Vegas annual rodeo themed Helldorado Days. The Elks exhibited the body and replica of the cave along with other artifacts found in it until the 1960's. The body rode in a convertible for the Helldorado Days Parade at least one year. No longer wanting the remains the Elks Lodge threw them out. They may have been weary of legal entanglements for body disposal and tried to get rid of them quietly. Instead the remains were discovered and thought to be a homicide victim. After determining it was the remains of Quehoe, they were given to The Museum of Natural History at the University of Nevada. Afterward they passed through several owners until they were purchased by Roland Wiley. Wiley buried the remains at this site on November 6, 1975. Cathedral Canyon is natural canyon that once held many icons, statues, and text panels. Roland Wiley, a lawyer and former District Attorney for Las Vegas transformed this canyon until he died in 1994. Work was done mainly on weekend trips and many thousands of dollars spent to honor his daughter Carol Ann Wiley. Once a fascinating place, mentioned in the book: "Weird Las Vegas and Nevada" by Joe Oesterle, this canyon included a sound and light show and a foot bridge across the canyon, but now only traces remain. Vandalism and neglect have taken its toll on this remote site in a short period of time.