Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1879-05-13
4 SAD, STRANGE SUICIDE.
A Ysans Girl ~ Carson Dslibsr'
asely Cemmiss saisids, Declar-
ing that She n Tired or Life.


ing that she II Tired Or Lifs.
Many Of our readers will doubtless
recollsct the circumstance some three or
four years ago Of a young girl coming
in from Elko on the cars with her four
little brothers. on their way to the Or
phsns' Home at Carson, their mother hav.
ing died and their father deserted them.
Passengers on the train took . strong
sympathizing interest In them and q.
sisted them all possible. They were
vsll received and cared for ct the Or.
phan's Home. Mrs. Webb. the late
matron OF the Homo, speaks Of the girl
Emma az always q good girl. although
somsvhat eccentric and very proud In
her disposition, often saying that she
Was able to look out for herself and
would rather die than be bound out TO
service. Even in her reading she chose
books Of tho highest order Of litera.
ture, preferring the Bible to any
other book, and in her knowledge Of Ito
contents surpassed any Of the othsr chill
drep or scholars at the Homo. Some
three months ago, Emma being then az.
teen years Of age. wa taken into the
service Of Mrs. o. P. Willis. than whom,
saws the Tribune. Q kinder.hsarted woman
does not exist. and during that time Em.
ma faithfully discharged her duty. and
an her letter to Mrs. Willis shows, must
have been sincerely attached to the chill.
drsn Of the house. Sunday night Emma
retired at the usual time, without any
apparent change in her manner. 1t ap-
pears that she went to the bathroom,
and after proper additions, put on clean
underclothes, and having possessed her.
self Of O small bottle Of chloroform.
which she found in the house, saturated
o sponge. and tying handkerchief
around her chin and head, deliberately lay
down in bed, her face upon the sponge
and her hands placed to the sides OF her
head, and thus passed away into that
other and we hspe better life. ON arising
this morning Mrs. Willis noticed that
Emma was not about, and upon going
to her room found the poor girl stark in
death, q above described. Coroner
Foster was Immediately sent for. The
Coroner was accompanied by DR.. Smart.
who, upon examination, pronounced
death caused by use Of ohloroform.
The following. written on q paper box
cover. was found in the room. We print
verbatim:
DEAR Mrs. WILLIS
please tax my hair
down and pin It back a little and put my
black dress on. / have taken O bath
myself and put on my undsrclothes
good bye Maudis and Fannie and my
dear little Alice. please have my ear:
rings in my cars. tell Mrs. and Mr.. and
Carrie Webb good BY, and to remember
me in their prayers II / am dead, and
also Nellie and my brothers.
Good night all.
The annexed, written on = small scrap
Of paper, was evidently intended for the
young girls brothers in the Home. We
print It just as it appears:
am quito tired Of living such . life
as I have led for the last two or three
wears and l think I will put q stop to 1t
myself II no one else will. Dear little
brothers you must not think Of me but
do the best you can in this life and some
.day I think we shall meet in . better
place than this but I am sure / don't
know whom that will be for whore ! Am
going l cant tell but hope that ! will be
forgiven for I am not as much 10 blame
as I might be be good little boys and God
will help you.
Well I will now say good bye to all
kind friends and hope You will all be
more sensible than I am
but don't forget me though please
Emma N Kelly-Born Sept I'd 1854
Excuse the writing and also the spell
for l am in q hurry good bye to my dear
little brothers God bless you / trust you
will be taken good care OF
In q prayer book Of the n. E. Church,
10 her name in pencil "Emms," under
which she wrote, BURY this with me-
The prayer book was interpreted BE-
tween the leaves with mottos. visiting
cards, etc.; and the following on . slip.
cut out ragged from some book or jour-
nal, was also found between the leaves /:
CHAPTER XXX.
At TIE ALTAR.
Z" DEEDS. thoughts. and words. perhaps rsmsm.
80 ieenly till that hour. but ns'or forgot:
Things light or lovely In their acted time,
But now 10 stern reflection each o crime;
The whitening sense Of evil unrevesled.
Not cankering less because the moro concealed
That open sepulchre. the naked heart,
Bears with its buried wocs, TIL Pride awake,
To snatch the mirror from the soul and break.
Ay-Piide can vail. and courage brave u ALL,
Ah-ail-bsfore-beyond-ths dsadliest fall.'
-BYEoS.
Along with these things were found Q
pencil, short pointed and stubby, and .
four.ounco vial marked "Cloroform.'
From Mrs. Willis testimony, this, when
she last saw IL, was half full. At the
time Of the inquest IL was all gone. ex-
cspt q few drops. The dead girl was
confirmed in the n. Z. Church on Sun.
day the 4th OF the present month.
II il very difficult TO assign any dsin.
ito reason for 90 terrible o deed on the
part Of n 80 young and under the cir
cumstances. She and her little brothers
have always been we'll cared for since
their arrival at the Home. and she was
kindly treated in the family Of Mr.. Willis.
The poor child must evidently have
been laboring under the influence OF
some peculiar monomania, religious or
otherwise, which perverted her already
eccentric mind and induced 20 deliberate
and msthodioal o suicide.
The Appeal says: sh: appeared to