Character details
- First Name
- Monte
- Last Name
- McMillan
- Notes
- Cattle rancher, hard hit by the Depression. Big-boned, scraggly.
- Reserved Notes
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Character cases:
Ch. 2 - appears unannounced at T. Pratt's ranch with Lew Bennet and Daniel Cullen to buy prize bull Caesar from Thomas Pratt. An uproar ensues.
Ch. 10 - accompanied by Tom Pratt, arrives at the Osgood ranch unexpectedly with news of Caesar's death.
Ch. 11 - being questioned by Wolfe, reports that Caesar died from anthrax and that the state authorities had immediate plans to burn the bull's corpse. Further, he brings news that the police suspect Clyde Osgood of having poisoned the bull before his own death.
Ch. 12 - is confronted by Wolfe who accuses him of withholding information in his investigation, leaving indignantly eventually.
Ch. 20 - agrees to meet Wolfe at the Pratt ranch; Wolfe confronts him with evidence that he killed Tom Pratt to conceal the fact that he had sold an inferior bull to Pratt in place of Caesar (who had died of anthrax poisoning) and he ultimately confesses (to the deceit and murders of Pratt and Bronson) then commits suicide from poison he had extracted from Caesar's heart.
Reserved notes for this caseSwitched an inferior bull for Caesar who died of anthrax, and sold him to Tom Pratt.
Killed Clyde Osgood because he had deduced the switch and attempted blackmail.
Killed the ringer bull with anthrax virus so that the body would have to be destroyed.