Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-07-14
SINGULAR CASE OF SUICIDE
A Miner Residing In Virginia City
Commits Suicide Through Fear
of Btarvation.

Night before last, a miner by the
name of Christensen, who was board
ing at the Ashland House on the Di-
vide, committed suicide under rather
singular circumstances. That he had
a morbid fear Of death by starvation,
appears from the following note i'd
dressed to 4 friend in San Francisco,
which was found In a memorandum
book belonging to the deceased !:
II have taken arsenic. l would
rather do that thnn die Of starvation.
| hope the Odd Fellows will be candid
and bury me. L. CnlsTIENsoN."
IL appears ut the time that there was
TO immediate danger of his starving,
as he was receiving 81 per day-a
miners wages-and had also received
n few days prior to his death, $50, sent
him by u friend in San Francisco.
Coroner Holmes held al inquest APP
on the remains yesterday afternoon.
The following is an abstract Of the
proceedings:
Samuel Payne sworn-I live in Vir-
ginia City, New; am u plastcrer by
occupation /; went to bed last night
about l2 o'clock ; the deceased was In
bed when I went to bed ; could not
say exactly what time it was, but it
was some time after | went to bed ;
heard a heavy fall OIL the floor. then
vomiting. and he made M ATTEMPT to
get i'm his bed again and fell back OH
the floor and groaned I supposed he
was under the Influence of liquor and
did not trouble him. he being IN his
WI room ; he was lying there when I
was woke up this morning by Mr.. Lo-
zier; [ got up and helped him into hts
bed and asked him If there was any
thing [ could do for him /; he said, get
me a drink of water; | went down to
the bar room and got a glass and gave
him a drink of water: took the glass
back m the bnr and told the bar.keeper
I would like to have something for the
d.rc,ssd and no made mr. n cocktail /:
yyben + wsr, b,cL m nv room again
be was WING on the floor: [ raised
him I'm and mn, him on his bed and nut
th. glass TO his mouth and he drank
about half of IL /. | laid him over OH the
nod and ,hen ,yant h,cl down to the
Iar ronM, ~ s,,J Saneho6r ouobt To
90 mn and Loot after the man 1: that he
w,s ysrv drnnr mr. crazy he looked
v.rv had 70 ma. Dave vent nm him.
sir. Ina had NOT been gone hut n few
seconds when he came back and said
the nan i; dyiur: | went right up
then. and had hardly rot into the
room when I saw he was diving I; he
was gosniny HE last and died in n few
mi%un,es. / remsined in the room n
f.w ,n;pn,as thnn went +, breakfast.
md hive M, s.sn deceased since this
w,os lion, a. o,ciocr
D,rJ To-;s, s,,orn-I reS,de In yir-
iii" 80. ama .m .,i.rtiro a, rho Asb.
land IJnrSe Tha LnreaSed came TO the
IsLinnJ IJonsa an Ina. q of .Junr
~ III ,a ry,N,oJ m no, raj th.rs mud
"av, In his name rs f. Christian. lie
MAS \ ,ranc. TO me. Ibid not know
him raiIsJ NJ his room In tbe roorn.
Inc ,o wake him nm and fonnd him
In On ,bs fIoor osrsd Mr. PAYNE
w Iha- was Tho n,o,,.r with him !. hs s,id'
La ,honob, h. h,S bcen bringing. I
tool, NO i,r,I.r r~otic. hnt cams. down
the bar-room. lie asked me to fix
him M something to drink. ! gave
him some brandy aud Jamaica ginger.
MI. PAYNE returned after giving him
the brandy and water and told me
ought TO 90 up and attend
the man; | went up and found him
| thought he lived about two