Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-09-21
STRANGE PROCEEDINGS AT
THE STATE PRISON.
Romance and Crime--A Strange
Medley-Love, Treachery, Etc.
From the Carson Appeal. 18th.

From the Carson Appeal. 18th.
Some weeks since one Samuel Mil
Ter, a young man represented to be
lately from the State of Virginia, was
recommended to Mr.. Hyman by Gov
ernOr Bradley as a worthy and COM
petent person for a guard at the prison.
On the strength of this recommended
ton Miller was appointed. The new
guard had not been long ut his post be-
fore Mr.. Hyman's suspicious were ex-
cited against him, and, accordingly,
he se. a watch upon his actions. There
is a convict at the prison by the name
of Hiram McCOmas, who was SEN
fenced from Humboldt county for
stage robbery. He has for some time
past been acting as assistant clerk n
st~ore-keeper for the prison. Certain
myster Gus confabs between this man
McComas and the new guard, Miller,
determined Mr.. Hyman to place them
both under surveillance. Night before
last the Captain Of the Guard, Hodg-
kinson, suspecting that some develop
ments OF the suspected game between
Miller and McComas might be forth
coming, secreted himself in the carpen-
ter shop, where he could see what was
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seen. While thus on the outlook he
saw a package Of papers passed from
McComas to Miller. When Miller en-
tered the guard room Hodgkinson or
dered him TO disarm and then to sur
render the bundle of papers aforesaid.
Miller refused to give the papers to
Hodgkinson, but said he would sur
render them to the Warden. Mr.. Hy-
man was then SEMI for, and Miller de-
livered up the parcel. He was then
placed under arrest for being caught
In the act of carrying on a clandestine
correspondence with a convict. Then
McComas was taken from the quarters
assigned him as a clerk and locked up
in q cell. This was done so that he
might moi have a chance to destroy pa
pers bearing upon this conspiracy-for
such it proved to be.
McComas has, in addition to his
duties as an assistant clerk, been a
waiter around the officers quarters,
and in this way formed the acquaint-
ance of and carried on a courtship
with Mollie Fourshay. Of course, this
courtship was interrupted when Mollie
was pardoned out, but the sequel
shows not only that this love-making
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Mollie Processes as hearty a love for
McComas as he for her, and that she
has set about 1t, in a very resolute way,
to help him to obtain a pardon. Miller
being placed in arrest aud his papers
taken from him, Mr.. Hyman sent for
Attorney General Kittrell for consul
tation. General Kittrell responded to
the summons with alacrity, and he
aud Hyman examined the papers.
They consist of letters from McCOmas
to Mollie Fourshay, one or two letters
from Mollie to him, a letter from Nc
Comas to Miller two or three letters
from Miller to McComas, and a letter
from Henry HEX man IA colored con-
vict sent from Storey county for rape)
acting as table servant TO the Warden's
dining-room. The burden of the let
tiers from McComas to Noble Fourshay
is his great and undying love for her.
his hope of making her his wife, and
his trust in her to help him obtain a
pardon. Also in this letter are intima-
tons that he, McComas. and Mollie
are aiding Miller to work up q case
against Hyman. The letters from
Mollie expires, a great deal OF love for
her Hiram, and give him to under
stand that she is leaving no stone I'M
turr to secure his freedom In one
OF these missives Mollie names certain
State officials who have been in consul
tation with her at her rooms here, in
carson. and she states in substance
that She told them that he. McComas.
must have assurance Of a speedy par
don before he would divulge what hs
knows about Hvman. She conve,s
some idea that these terms las to Nc
Comas). were acceded to by the said
State officials. The letter from McCo-
mas to Miller. in SO far as |. relates to
the business between them-that is to
saw the business of finding evidences
of dishonesty against Hvman-confas-
SEES his. McComas'. inability to find in
the books and accounts of the prison
any evidences against the Warden.
There are some references to persons
and supposed transactions, but the SON.
fession is explicit that he finds nothing
to bear out any charges Of fraud or
REGULATION. Also McCoinas expresses
himself a. mystifed by certain express
sions contained in Milier's letter.
Miller's letters-there are several OF
them-urre speedy action on McCo-
mas part in furnishing evidence
against Hyman; assure McComas that
work Is being done to help him out:
that the suits against him in the United