Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1872-07-08
san FRANCISCO ,ysaaEpY,

Nicholas E. Carr, a weli'to do tailor
residing on Twenty-fourth street, San
Francisco, aged 50 years, on Friday
evening concluded to finish up his
Fourth of July by finishing up his
wife, aged so years. He succeeded,a and
then concluded to finish up himself,
but In this did not quite succeed.
Here Is his story about 1t, which he
told the Coroner:
Last Saturday evening she got thlr-
ty-five dollars and got drunk; for
| three weeks before, she was always ul-
der the Influence Of liquor. Whenever
| she got drunk she commenced smash
Ing things, and on these occasions
would break everything In the house
and would not leave q whole pane Of
! glass or a door. On the third Of July
she was very drunk outside OF the
house, and l coaxed her to get her In,
but she would not come, 10 at last l
told her that 1 would give her q bottle
| of wine /; she said she must have the
wine before she came in. l talked to
her and told she must be a good woman
and stop drinking. She replied with
an oath that she would not, and that
| she did not want to live with any man
except such a m as she could turn on
when she wanted to. On the morning
Of the fourth she was about the house
cursing aud swearing, and would not
let me nor the girl work, and l asked
her to lot me nlone, as l had some
work to do. During the forenoon OF
that day she threw a Ratchet at me be-
cause l would not let her have her own
way. l believe she had been breaking
something In Lizzie's room-Llzzle
went up to her room to get ready to 60
out for the afternoon, bat soon. came
down aud commenced to tell me some
thing, but she never finished the SEN
tence, for my wife, who had II carving
knife In her hand, caught her by the
arm and drew her to her, intending,
no doubt, to cut her and when | weI.t
to prevent her she threw the carving
knife at me. Then she picked up a
poker and q toasting fork. Lizzie went
out while this was going on, aud l told
her to 20 to her guardian. My wife
threw the poker and fork at me and
then ran through the hallway. l went
over to Mr.. Parks and asked II he was
In I; learned that he vas not. After |
returned from MI. Parks, my wife
took the hatcllet and went up stairs to
smash the windows. II vas about this
time, when 1 attempted TO prevent
her, that what Is done occurred.
This IL all, except tho stabbing. |
will describe 1t as neal as [ eau. In
the back bed room | picked up all old
pair Of scissors which were on her
table. I was telling her to keep still,
and she wanted to fight (; 1t was then l
stabbed her with the scissors half a
dozen or a dozen times, I don't re-
member. When stabbed she fell In
the position she lays now. and | put
the pillow under her head. I then
took off my overshlrt, which WAS torn,
and laid down BY the side Of her and
stabbed myself three times, thinking
that was enough to end me. found
that I was not dying and felt no pain.
so I cut my left arm with the small
blade. thinking I could bleed to death.
l went into the front bed room for this
knife. 1 suppose she had scissors for
some purpose, but l do not know. l
will not blame her for anything | do
not know. | went off In 4 faint and
lay there for all hour or more. l
crawled to the bed aud In doing so was
attacked with nausea. Then | got on
the bed. This was before dark. Igot