Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1871-05-03
ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES.
HNOCH ARDEN AT GOLD HILL

Officer Newhouse found q sort of
Enoch Arden last Saturday evening,
about IL O'Clock, in Gold Hill. He
was lying drunk as blazes in the street
ut the lower end Of town, with q valise,
two pounds of beefsteak add q 4 OF
oysters hear him, having camped out
for the night looking quite pitiful
mid a whole city full, yet where
friends he had none Newhouse, like
a good Samaritan, picked him up and
took him to the calaboose, with his
baggage and provisions. Enoch was
was not In condition for square ex-
PLANTATION that night, but next morning
VIM. Mooney, the well known livery
stable keeper up at Virginia, came
down inquiring for n buggy and two
horses, and particularly for a man of
Enoch's description. He soon found
that his team and buggy were at the
Eclipse Stable, and the man he sought
was In the c~alaboose. Moneys story
was that the man called on him last
Saturday morning and told him quite
q fine yarn about how he was proprie-
tor or owner in q rich mine out at
Humboldt, showing rich specimens Of
ore in support of his argument, and
finally succeeded In getting the afore-
said team for a drive to Gold Hill, and
In fact for all day. He only got as far
rs Gold Hill, however, where, owing
TO too much whisky getting him de-
moralized, he and the team staid.
Mooney took his team home. New
house interviewed Enoch OH Sunday,
and found him to be n Swede ard that
his real name was R~osenblatt. lie
was about thirty-five years OF age and
bore a tolerably respectable appear
ance. He said he came In from Nir-
sinia to Reno Saturday morning, and
showed q pass over the Central Pacific
railroad from Carlin to Reno, in proof
OF his assertion that he came from the
East. Newhouse asked him If he was
a man of family-if he had a wife
and this sorrowfully drew from him
the following story.
"Yes, I did have q wife once, and we
lived happily in Illinois. We moved
70 Cincinnati, Ohio. This was in the
war time, and | enlisted as q soldier
for three months at first, and then Tor
threa wears. | was in several we'll
fought battles, and finally got captured
and taken to Libby Prison, where they
kept me five mighty long months.
There was a German friend Of mine In
the prison with me, M old chum and
comrade. and he was let out some time
before I was. He had no money, II
20 / gave him all l had, which was
only $S5, and told him TO find his way
20 Ohio and 20 and see my wife and
little boy, and tell her was still alive
and all right, and would come home rs
soon as | could. He played me bad.
He found nv wife and liked her looks,
30 he told her | was dead, and after a
while he married her and took her to
Europe. I managed to track them ut
last TO Hamburg, and l appeared to
them. Well, it's no use to tell any
more of It. only that l did not raise
any trouble, but took my little BOY
and brought him away to Amerlca
with me. 1 sent him to a brother OF
mine In California, and he Is now nj
school In Napa." Rosenblatt did not
tell Newhouse how or why he came to
VIRGINIA or Gold Hill, but on investi-
cation of the matter before Justice
Putnam Monday morning. Mr.. Mooney
declining to prosecute, the good
hearted Justice administered n kindly
lesson of admonition and advice, and
discharged the sad prisoner. lie LETT
for Reno and the railroad that evening.
A gentleman at Virginia who Is nc
oua3nted with him says he thinks his
story Ia true, and that he knows him to
be Of good family and we'll educated.