The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1881-09-03
LOVE. JEALOUSY AND SUICIDE.
VIM. O'Dell Falls in Love with n
Pretty Dancing Girl Becomes
Jealous Of Her and browns his
Woes in a cup OF Cold Poison.

ing all the outward appearances of n COW
boy, arrived In Cherry Creek. No one knew
him. lie seemed to be well supplied with
money and paid for everything he got.
Shortly after bis arrival he made tho ac-
Quaintance of tho fair but frail habitues of
the tho dance house, and With one In partic-
ular he seemed to have been snitten. Minnie
sOmmers, the idol of his affections, is q recent
importation from Eureka, a well-educated,
but by no means comely dame. of considera-
BILE marital experience on the Base Range,
where she has respe stable relations. who will
hardly know who she is by thu name hero
assumed. To her 0'Dell had made proposals
Of marriage, and the sympathetic Minnie
assented to the sch sme, whils at the same
best0wing such loving fayors on another
young man as to arouse ths fierce ire of the
green-eyed monster in the bosom of 0'Dell.
lie charged the adored ono with duplicity
Friday night. and told her he would end his
life If she proved false. at the same tims pro-
ducing thu drug. which q few hours later did
its deadly work. uo went 10 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 afternoon. lie was n man
who did not drink much. or seem to dissi.
pate to any great extent in fact his greatest
weakness seemed TO be his ardent desire
to effect a general reformation among the
"frail sisterhood." by having them ali mar
rIed off. towards which end he seemed anxious
to do his share. As adviser to the fraiI ones
he is said to have been pathetic in the ex-
treme. r~ivaling the famous Moody and Sank
ey exhortations to sinners to 1y 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.
Nor even q scrap of paper could be found to
throw any light on his name or former ante
cedents. We had q conversation with the
young man a few days before his death. and
our impression of him was that ho was a
joyial young fellow who had come In from
some ranch TO see the sights for 4 few days.
Hill 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. if they will
only profit by it. Ii il not even certain that
his name is O'Dell: some say this namo was
only assumed, and that his real name was
Hutton. Following is tho evidence taken be-
fore the Corners Jury. which body holds its
verdict until DR.. Hngar returns from Ward j:
| State OF Nevade, Coan'y of " hito pino-Be-
fore J. ii. Lander. }. L. aud acting Ioroner:
ln the matter of tho lhlslstiOfi upon tho
body vt " IN. UDeil.
j. ID. Campbell being sworn. depooses and
says: Reside ia cherry CreeN; M occu atIoa
is a physician; | found the deceosed, I'm.
U'Dell at Mrs. Bates lodging house at 4:oU
p. NJ. ON the 9th day oi August, 1851, aud
used all ordinary means OF restoralon, but
deceased gave no tigns of lite. l have no
doubt he died from an overdose of l%aGdanaln,
US he showed ala the symptoms. | presume
deceased took about six drachms of ID udanam,
judging by the vial found ON tho tabio in his
room
W C. Love. being duly sworn. deposes and
says: Reside in Cherry Creek: my 0~ceg pall
is that OF lawyer; deceased came 10 my office
between ii aud II O'Clock On the night OF tle
18th OF August, leol, aud asked Dr. hagar to
give him some laddandin; tbs doctor advised
him not TO take laaianlin, but to allow INN
To give u prescription. DECEASED told The uoc-
I tor that rs WAS accustomed 10 tbs use Oh Tau
dHnum. and that he preferred taking IL 10
anything else; Hiasar then told him 10 come
to the drug store ana hs would give II 10 hun.
Wm. Paul. being duly sworn. Opposes aud
says: 1 have tnoHn deceased Tor about ten
| days. nave BdhnUicu VIII HlH tOuelSei aDtyI
was with Discussed tbs osen ng beioro his
death; hc told me h, cline HON san Fran-
cisco 10 Wells, and thence to cherry Greek:
he also said he had been in Texas; he never
told mo his mime; saw deceased have u
leather purse and take so irvm 1t on the
night Uf August 2jth; saw him between ii and
~ o'c.Ack that night in A. ". GordoA's drug
store; saw DIR. lIagar give deceased fome-
! thing IN "A vial; saw dec sused two hours later
about | O'clock A. N. ut tha old Bates lodg-
ing holse.
Minnie Summers, being duly sworn. de-
possess and says: Ny age is -; reside ia
Cherry Cock, have known deceased about
ten days-ever since 1 came to town; met
him tho first night; he seemed to think u
great deal of me, aid agreed to put my little
girl to school. and 10 lit a mortgage of S21j
on my property, and to take me u Wyoming,
where his people lived, and | told him that II
he would do rs he mud agreed, | would marry
| the last three month he had been at home he
| had made about 81 ~, but that he had spent
most of it; that he had bad n disagreement
with his uncle aud left him; that he had but
$50 when he arrived in Cherry Creek. but
had written to his brother for 500 more.
which would be hsre In a few days. Deceas-
ed had previously said tn II Ii / went back on
him he would not live; the night before his
death he left my house, went TO tho hurdy-
| house, came back very much excited, said
that 1 was fooling him. and ono of tho girls
told him | was laying up with another man;
| he seemed very much excited aud showed me
the bottle OF laudanum shown TO the jury; 1t
was then full; | snatched IL away from him,
and finally succeeded in convincing him that |
was not deceiying him, and he seemed per-
facflv safisiad. he took the Iaudnnum from