Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-09-07
LOVE. JEALOUSY AND SUICIDE.
An Ex-Eureka FrafI Sister Drives
n Susceptible Young Man Over
the silent River at Cherry Creek.

q Susceptible Young Man over
the silent River at Cherry Creek.
We copy the subjoined from the Cherry
Greek News Of last Saturday. Says that
journal
About three weeks ago a young man,
bearing all the outward appearances OF q
cowboy, arrived in Cherry Greek. He
seemed to be well supplied with money
and paid for everything he got. Shortly
after his arrival he made the acquaintance
OF the fair but frail habitues Of the dance
house, and with one in particular he
seemed to have been smitten. Minnie
Sommers, the idol of his affections, is a
recent importation from Eureka, q we'll
educated, but by no means comely dame,
Of considerable marital experience on the
Base Range, where she has respectable re-
lations. who will hardly know who she is
by the name here assumed. To her O'Dell
had made proposals of marriage, and the
sympathetic Minnie assented to the
scheme, while at the same time bestowing
such loving favors on another young man
as to arouse the fierce ire of the green
eyed monster in the bosom Of O'Dell. He
charged the adored one with duplicity
Friday night, and told her he would end
his life if she proved false, at the same
time producing the drug, which q few
hours later did its deadly work. He went
to his room about 2 O'Clock Saturday
morning, taking six drachms of laudanum
enough to kill two men-and was found
dead in his bed about 4 O'Clock in the af-
ternoon. He was a man who did not
drink much or dissipate to any great ex-
tent; in fact his greatest weakness seemed
to be his ardent desire to effect a general
reformation among the "frail sisterhood,"
by having them married off, toward which
end he seemed anxious to do his share.
AS an adviser to the frail ones he is said to
have been pathetic in the extreme, rival
ing the famous Moody and Sankey exhor-
tations to sinners. to fly from the wrath to
come.
What seems most strange about the
whole affair is, though he was known
to have money. none was found among his
effects after death. Not even a scrap of
paper could be found to throw any light
on his name or former antecedents. We
had a conversation with the young man a
few days before his death, and our impress
sion of him was that he was a jovial fellow
who had come in from some ranch to see
the sights for a few days. His sad ending
is no doubt the result of bad company and
a weak mind. A great moral lesson is
given by his rash act to some Of the young
men and boys in this town, il they will
only profit by it. It is not even certain
that his name is O'Dell !; some say his
name was only assumed, and that his real
name was Hutton.
A Coroner's Jury was held on the re-
mains. Following is the testimony of the
principal witnesses:
Minnie Sommers, being duly sworn, de-
poses and says My age is %; reside in
Cherry Creek, have known deceased about
ten days-ever since l came to town; met
him the first night; he seemed to think a
great deal Of me, and agreed to put my lit
tie girl to school, and to lift a mortgage Of
S206 on my property, and to take me to
Wyoming, where his people lived, and l
told him that if he would do as he had
agreed, l would marry him when we got
there; he. told me that in the last three
months he had been at home he had made
about 81 900, but that he had spent most
of it; that he had had a disagreement with
his uncle and left him; that he had but
$3.50 when he arrived in Cherry Creek, but
had written to his brother for $500 more
which would be here in few days. De-
ceased had previously said that if I vent
back on him he would not live; the night
before his death he left my house, went to
the hurdy-house, came back very much
excited; said that l was fooling him, and
one Of the girls told him / was laying up
with another man; he seemed very much
excited and showed me the bottle OF lauda-
mum shown to the jury; it was then full; l
snatched it away from him, and finally sue
ceeded in convincing him that l was not
deceiving him, and he seemed perfectly
satisfied; he took the laudanum from me
in a playful manner; he cried hard part OF
the time, but finally left in apparent good
spirits; never saw him have a purse or any,
thing about him. save $40 on the morning
of his death, and once saw him have about
500; II deceased had released the mortgage
on my property / was to give it to my
mother, which would make her easy.
@. B. Morgan, being duly sworn, deposes
and says: Deceased worked for me haul
ing wood q few days; told me his name
was VIM. 0'Dell; that he was born in Ten
nessee; his mother lives near Waco, Texas;
has a brother In Colorado; I do not think
deceased q man of clear Impressions, or one
who could command 500 by writing for it;
told me he had Sis; this was about ten
days ago.