Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1879-08-02

Another Suicide Added to Our
Chapter of Horrors.

Chapter Of Horrors.
The report circulated about $50 last
evening, that a man had committed sui.
eide ON lower Main street, caused a rush OF
the curious in that direction, and the
SESTrNEL's representative followed in the
wake of the crowd. Arriving at Dumas
saloon q dense mass Of men was found
crowded around that establishment and
the adjacent building. Pushing our way
through, the saloon entrance was finally
gained through q rear door to the place
in which the tragedy was enacted, and
which is q house Of i'll repute. In the rear
room lay a man with his head in a mass of
! CONCEALED blood, and q hole in his right
temple from which the blood was oozing,
I while in the front room the wall OF a
woman rose above the noise and confusion.
Like all deviltry concocted since Eve
tempted Adam, a woman was at the bottom
Of it. The circumstances, 80 far as we
could learn, were as follows:
Henry Tor Eugene) Onker, the victim,
was a German By birth, apparently about
IS years OF age, and came to Eureka from
Reno about two months since. He was a
cook by occupation, and for q time was
employed in that capacity and as a waiter
at the Turner House, but OF late has been
idle. About a week ago a woman, with
whom he had been intimate in Reno, and
who is known to the demi monde as
Louise, arrived from Reno and engaged a
room at the house where tie affair &C.
Cured. Onker was DESTROYS OF renewing
the intimacy that had formerly existed,
but the woman objected. She manifested
a willingness to help him pecuniarily, and
had leased a bar just south Of her resi-
dence which she proposed to let him run.
On Thursday night he called and again
made overtures. and was again re-
pulsed. lie left saying that he would
soon relieve her of his atten-
tons, and remarked that as soon as he
could secure an instrument he would open
a vein and allow himself to bleed to death.
These threats the woman repeated to Mr..
Dumas, who laughed at her fears, thinking
it only a plan Of Onker's to work upon her
feelings. During yesterday Onker drank
quite freely, and several times remarked
that lie intended to commit suicide, but no
attention was paid to his threat. Early in
the evening he called on Louise, and the
two retired to a back room. What passed
between them will probably be learned at
the Coroner's inquest to-day. A pistol
shot shortly after alarmed the inmates,
and William Zanow, rushing into the room,
saw Onker standing by the washstand in a
STOPPING position. Thinking he wasintrud-
ing, he beat a hasty retreat. and q few mo-
ments later, when Dumas and William
Smith entered. Onker was lying on the
floor with his life's blood ebbing from the
CHASTITY wound, while the woman was
shrieking in the adjoining room. Onker
had placed the muzZle Of the pistol near
his temple, not even removing his felt hat,
through the rim of which a large hole had
been shot, and deliberately pulled the
trigger. II is evident he did not mean TO
be thwarted in his deadly purpose.
The pistol with which the deed had been
could not be found by the Off
GERS, and this led to various surmises and
suspicion Of foul pisy. 1t had. however,
been picked up by one Of the men who frat
entered the room, and was afterward Sc
cured by the officers. An inquest will be
held to-day. when additional particulars
may be brought to light.