Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-15

~~ W. bOhhS W. u hhhliy AOlDC0
me out for the balance of the shift,
which was only half an hour. I cal
culated the body would reach the
mouth of the tuyers in two hours, but
l did not dare to linger around the fur
mace.
REMORSE.
After my work was done l went to
my room but could not sleep, and l
felt relieved when the sixteen hours
we're up and / had to resume work
again. / never have forgotten those
eight hours. 1t seemed as if every
shovelful of ore that I flung into the
feed-hole struck on his body and that
the bubbling of the blast took to itself
speech and upbraidsd me for my cru
city. When barrIng-out time came
and l went to the front of the furnace,
it was him that / was stirring up and
raking out instead of the clinkers of
iron. My reason told me that the
fierce heat had consumed every por-
ticn OF him, and that what had not
gone off in the fumes had run out Of
the front and was now a component
part of the Stag pile; but a ~hallucina-
ton fixed on my brain and / saw him
materialized at every part of the fur
mace where my work called me. l got
such a mania for looking into the feed
hole of the furnace that l soon became
loaded and incapacitated from further
labor; and on my recovery l could not
procure another situation, as the fore
man seemed to have some suspicion
that l was accountable for Johns
strange disappearance. l then went
THE CHARCOAL BUSINESS,
And, forming acopartnersbip with two
other men, built the cabin in which l
sit writing this statement. We burnt
coal here for two years, when the
wood becoming exhausted, l took my
share of the profits, $1,000, and went
East, first paying the furnace a visit,
which | had done before whenever /
had come to town. l left Eureka and
went to Wisconsin, to the lead mines.
/ could not stay away from a blast fur
mace, and whenever / saw one, there
was John right in the hottest place,
seeminly taunting me for killing him.
From Wisconsin / went to Pittsburg;
from there to Salt Lake; and finally,
after foul years wandering, came back
to Eureka. l hardly got off the train
before l bent my footsteps to the old
furnace. l wanted one more look at
it and then / had determined to end
my miserable life.
THE FURNACE.
1t still stood in the same spot, al
other ones had been built close
it. The works were not running
and for two weeks l used to 60 every
night and wander around the prem
ises. / calculated as TO the exact place
where John fell, the DO ards that l drew
his body across and the identical feed
hole hat | threw it into. Finally the
Waterman drove me away, and l
bought an ounce of laudanum and
walked over the mountain until | came
to the old cabin. AS soon as i finish
this | shall take the poison and lay
down in the bunk. l don't suppose
that any II ever passes this way, and
/ shall probably lay here and rot, or
the vermin will feast on me. | csnno
go To q worse hell than what / have
been in for the last six years. If any
n finds this statement they can yer-
ify the truth of it by looking ove the
books of the smelling company, and
they will find mine and John Muir
phys name on the pay roll, and if X.
NJ. Wallis is still in Eureka, he will re-
mem Der the fact of Johns disappear
ance, for he was the night foreman at
that time. LEE SINGLETON.
CoRROBoRArORY.
Here ends this singular and startling
We have inquired into the
and find that a mar named
John Murphy mys%teriously disappear
ed about the time mentioned. The
of June 81, 1871, mentions the
fact, but as the town was full of strang-
ers at that time no further notice was
of il. Mr.. Wallis recalls the cir.
very we'll and gives us
some additional facts. He says that
when Murphy disappeared he had Is
wages due him, and the money
was never called tor. His dug-out on
the hillside was taken pos session of by
party, who lived there for over
a year and Kept Murphy's personal
property undisturbed, but as he never
called for it, nor in fact was ever heard
of afterward, he finally gave the cloth
ing to the Indians. Wallis also says
that Singleton was a morose, unsocia-
BILE fellow, rarely speaking to any of
his fellow-workmen, but an excellent
He also states that Singleton
was mistaken in his eve suspecting
him, for he had no such thought until
this statement was shown him. 1t is a
story, and we can deduct a
moral to it with very little trouble.
The tragic murder, and the singular
mode of its accomplishment, the re-
ef the murderer, and the fascin-
alton which seemed to draw him to the
spot where he accomplished the foul
deed, his subsequent interchangeable
Cain over the face of the earth-and
final return to the locality: his haunt
ing the furnace until driven away by
the watchman; the deliberate jotting
down of all the facts, and final ending
of his miserable life away from the
busy hauuts of man; a life that he had
with his terrible crime, and that
had become too heavy a burden to
bear, all 20 to show that while the
proverb that murder will out" is not
always true, still our misdeeds will
follow us and become in the end their
own punishment.