Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-04-16
A SAD, SAD CASE.
From Affluenee and Responsibility to
Poverty and Disgrace.
The Ruin Wrought by a Pretty
Waiter Girl.
A BEAUTIFUL AND ACCOMPLISHED WIFE
DRIVEN TO A LIFE or SHAME BY
THE MFIDELlTY or HER
HUSBAND.

The SENTINEL feels called upon to re-
count the sad details Of a most sad affair
We would gladly draw the veil of obseurity
over SO cruel a case Of domestic infdelity
If we could, but we cannot. The public
demands the news, and it is our province to
supply the demand. And besides, the par
ticulars Of the affair under notice are al
ready known to a large share of Eureka's
| population, and it can but be a question of
time until the general public becomes ia
miliar with all the facts. The story is bad
enough without the embellishments of
Dame Rumor. 1t may be briefly related
as follows
Three years ago Thomas w. Surry was
married to the handsome and accomplished
daughter Of the Rev. Warren s. Knox, in
the city Of Providence, Rhode Island. The
courtship which preceded the wedding was
like all courtships, besst with paternal
and other difficulties. But we cannot 20
behind the returns, as set forth in the
marriage certificate. The ~younglady mar
ried in opposition to the wish Of her
doting and devoted parents, for inasmuch
as she was an only child she was the. idol
Of the household. The husband of her
choice was a poor clerk in a dry goods
store. His salary was light, and be could
not think Of supporting his beautiful
young bride in any sort Of style on his
small monthly income from this source.
He was brave and proud, and resolved to
do better. He had been married but a
short month. Drawing his darling to his
manly bosom, with a fervent kiss he bid
her adieu and pointed his moccasins for
the Far West.
1t is now nearly three years since Tom
Surry turned up in Eureka. He was a.
young man Of genteel appearance and
clever address. He was industrious and
attentive to business, and soon called
around him a host Of friends. Few men in
Eureka were better known or liked than
Tom Surry. He worked in the mines,
burnt coal, clerked for a spell now and
then for some of the eating and other bust
ness houses, n finally turned his hand
to barkeeping for outside saloons when
not otherwise engaged. This was the rock
on which he split. When he became a
barkeeper, it was not long until he learned
to gamble a little, and soon he became a
deyotee Of the gaming table, and mingled
freely with the pretty waiter girls. Tom
being a fine looking fellow, and always
giving close attention to his personal ap-
p%earance, he was not long in getting his
pick OF all the "jerkers'' in town. He took
one Of the most fascinating and winning to
live with. They seemed as happy as two
sucking doves, and everything was going
lovely.
But the real Mrs. Surry comes on the
scene. She sighed for the return of her
dear Tom from the Far West. He came
not nor did he write so often. Her proud
spirit was aroused. She had frequently
been tainted by her parents for marrying
a man without means, and she determined
to Join him and share his fate, be it
good or bad. Accordingly she came to
Eureka, taking her husband wholly by sur
prise, with the exception Of the two. or
three hours notice he would receive by the
publication of the passenger list before the
arrival of the train. Tom tried to arrange
matters with his new-fou1d love. He was
but partially successful. The case was a
desperate one, and he was compelled to
content himself with a sort of hollow truce
"a temporary restraining order as it were.
The genuine Mrs. Surry was taken to the
cabin, and everything was serene for more
than two weeks. But the green-eyed mon
steT was btruBSiiuB III u AchNluS pVsoiA VI
which the gentle, lady-like Mrs. Surry lit
tie dreamed. The pretty waitress refused
to down, and in a fit Of desperate jealousy
proceeded to her old quarters and set up her
claim to be the mistress thereof. The full
details of what TRANSFERRED can better be
imagined than described. Tom was tenn
p~orarily absent from town. When he re-
turned she whom he had sworn to love,
honor and protect, had gone, and the fair
"jerkeress" had installed herself in her
stead. The poor, broken-hearted Mrs.
Surry, shattered, distracted and too proud
to return to her friends in the East, made
her way, as is % known, to Virginia City.
A letter from that place to a gentleman in
Eureka, which we have been permitted to
read, brings the intelligence that she has
entered a house of prostitution, hoping
thereby to hide her troubles from the
world and sink her identity in oblivion.
The sad fate Of his once innocent and
charming wife has been communicated to
Tom, and he is now the most wretched
mortal in these parts. He will be still
more miserable when he reads in the SEN
TINEL this morning the above account OF
the ruin which he has wrought and the
disgrace he has brought upon himself and
the one whom he should have cherished
above all others through life. There is
nothing left to him but to go and hang