Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-01-07
DOUBLE rRAcrpY IN cINclNNArI
An Oririnal Mode OF Suicide.

An Original Mode Of Suicide.
The name of Cordelia Wilder Is as
familiar as o household word in the
Courts of Cincinnati. She has gained
an unenviable notoriety in the trans
action of her business, which consists
in the loaning of money at exorbitant
rates of interest to the keepers OF
houses of prostitution, to secure which
loans she takes mortgages OH the fur
niture of the houses. She did not
conflne her transactions in this line
exclusively to Cincinnati, but made
very large loans to the same class OF
persons In other principal cities of the
West-St. Louis, Chicago, etc. She,
with her husband and children, has
recently lived in the suburbs Of the
city. On Monday evening, about 6
o'clock. two of the children belonging
to the Wilder family anne running to
the residence of DR.. Williams, on
Chevoit street, crying at the top OF
their voices for him to ''Come quick
to their house." The Doctors wife
met them ut the door. told them that
he was absent from home, and inquired
what was the matter. They could
give her no Ineligible account, but
exclaimed in Il terrified manner
Another is all ~a-bleeding! Come
quick! come quick! Father has cut
mother =" Mrs. Williams directed the
children to the drug store Of +. +.
Davis, at Chevoit, where they imme,
diately ran. Mr.. Davis gathered up a
few of the neighbors. among them
Esquire Wells, Mr.. G. II. Moore and
others, and started for the Wilder
| dwelling. On entering the room
pointed out by the children q most
horrible sight met their gaze. They
found Mrs. Wilder lying on the floor,
covered with blood from head to foot,
and blood all over the room. At theit
approach the father ran into an adJoill'
ing room and barred the door firmly
They picked Mrs. Wilder up and ex.
amined her wounds, which they found
to consist of cuts and bruises on the
head. given with both the pole and
edge Of a hatchet. Her nose wa:
nearly chopped off, and she had
been very severely stabbed In thu
neck and shoulders with some sharp III
strument. One of these latter wounds
is q very dangerour one, given just
above the collar-bone, Onthe right side,
and will probably prove fatal. Whii(
Il part of the men were assisting DIR
Davis to dress the wounds, the balanc,
ot the party approached the room
where Wilder was, to capture him. III,
warned them in q loud voice not to at
tempt to open the door. ut the peril o
their lives. lie said that he was thor
oughly armed. and would kill any ont
who attempted to come In. A few
minutes later the explosion of q gun
was heard in the room occupied by
| Wilder. and the door was Immediately
burst open by the men who had beer
dressing Mrs. Wildcr's wounds. If the
scene OH their first reaching the houst
was horrible, then this new scene was
horror intensified. The ceiling ant
walls of the room were despatched al
over with the blood and brains 0
Wilder. An examination showed thai
he had made the most deliberate pre-
parations for suicide. On the bet
were found lying n bowie knife, razor
and strong cord, either of which would
have Served the purpose of putting Al
end to his own life. He had not, how
ever. chosen any of these means, but
had detached the barrels of q shotgun
from the stock, loaded them will
heavy buckshot, placed the tube end II
the CRATE. and held the muzzle agains
his head until the heat ofthe fire caused
the explosion. The effect may bt
imagined, but no power Of description
can paint in words the horrible result
The entire charge enteyed his head jus
beneath the eye, and from there. dag
onally across the forehead. the entire
top of his head VAS blown off in q CORY
mass, and deposited some distance
back In an open trunk, from which III
had apparently Just taken the various
weapons described above. Back t.
this trunk his liiclcss body had stag
gered in the death agony. and wa'
found lying just ut its side with the re
manning lower portion of his heat
resting against it. a subsequent eX
amination of the room showed that hi
Threat to kill any one who attempted
to enter would have been executed
IN addition to the weapons nance
above he had In the room q mnskcI
and several pistols, all loaded ant
ready for usc.-CfaeinnGh Gazette. ,