Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-11-18
POISON.


A Man Takes Laudanuns, C~onfesses
Murder and Survives.
Last Sunday at Ogden, says the Pilot, q
man registered at the Keeney House as J.
Hill, and was discovered to have taken
poison. Vigorous efforts were successfully
made to save him, but he expected to die,
and told the story of his eventful life.
Hoziah Pinkney Dean, the true name Of
the man, was born and raised in MISSISSIPPI
pi, and afterwards went to Arkansas to
live. He married and became the father
of a girl, now about s years old, and a
boy, o nearly 4 years of age. Soon
after the birth of the latter his wife died.
Dean is now ~ years of age, robust and
weighs 1876 pounds. A sister of Dean was
the wife of William Freels OF Almy, Craw-
ford County, Arkansas. Freels abused his
wife SO badly that Dean told him if he did
not quit it he would kill him. This
brought a like threat from Freels, and
with the loss of his wife and other troubles,
Dean was SO driven to desperation that he
killed Freels and left the country. This
murder was committed about the 10th or
middle Of January. 1879. From Arkansas
0OeH "ohe ~ iOA1S u PAn5Cu uuutI Ill
assumed name for one month then he
went to Hillsborough, New Mexico, where
he was engaged one year in freighting by
teams. Fear Of detection drove him to
San Francisco, thence to Lewiston, Idaho.
While on this journey he went by the
name of Pinkney. After remaining at
Lewiston several months he found his
way into Wood River, and was employed
by Horace Lewis at Ketchum, where he
worked from last May up to only a few
days ago.. He was saving OF his money,
and as fast as he drew II from his en-
ployer he deposited it with Pinkham q
Leonard, merchants in that town. A few
weeks ago the Pilots travelling agent was
at Ketchum, and, calling at the blacksmith
shop Of Lewis, he found q man trying to
fix his revolver, which he said had been
loaned and was returned in q useless con.
dition. The man got US to look at the re-
volyer and suggest how 1t could be re-
paired, and then gave information that he
was from Mississippi, and hoped to return
there. In conversation with him to-day
he recalled that incident and expressed
himself as glad to meet the representative
Of the Pilot again. John Hill was the
name given Us In. the blacksmith shop.
When he got ready to leave Ketchum he
took an order on Wells, Fargo 4 Co. at
HALEY. and started with some parties COM
ing with teams to Blackfoot. Heindorsed
the order John Hill, under which name he
had earned his money, and started for
Blackfoot. Across the plains the men
with whom he travelled acted suspiciously,
and being from Sawtooth had much to say
about O prominent Sawtooth mar and the
dead loads of money he has," and that
he was soon coming out to 60 East. Talk
Of this kind. and the apparent attempts Of
the men to leave him or get him out OF the
way, made Dean uneasy. and he feared that
a crime was about to be committed and
that he was to be made the scapegoat
Of criminals or else robbed OF all he had.
His fellow travellers had seen his
money and knew how much there
was Of it. Reaching Ogden he de.
cided to 60 home and stand trial for his
crime committed nearly three years ago.
Here and elsewhere he met men he knew
in New Mexico and other places when he
passed under other names, and this in
creased his fears. Going to purchase his
ticket for Memphis, Tennessee, his excite
ment was still increased by the ticket
agent getting him to sign his name. This
happened as the train was about leaving
for the East, and he got all arranged just
in time to step aboard the train, but
changing bis mind he got off, and then
came the attempt at ending his life. He
expresses regrets that he was not permit
ted to die, and says he will go home and
stand trial for his crime OF murder. He
says Freels ought to have been killed, but
the manner in which he did it was coward
ly. In conversation with a man who
knows the men with whom Dean travelled
from Ketchum to Blackfoot, we were told
that those men were very bad characters.
and that Deans suspicious Of crime at
their hands may not have been wrong.
Deans story, as told by him, bears evidence
of tr~uthfulness. and We think he has told
nothing lint the truth.