Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-03-22

affair she sent the Chinaman down town
to get her two bottles Of champagne, osten-
sibly to sober up on, but he bought a bot
tie Of whisky, too. On the night Of this
day she was SO violent and SO enfeebled by
the loss Of sleep, and 30 nervous from a
protracted spree, that 1 did not dare go to
sleep in the house with her.
SHE IS BOUND IAN AND o
1 sent for Mr.. Bartlett, and he said we
must tie her. / assisted him, and we
bound her wrists and ankles with silk
handkerchiefs. At daylight Mr.. Bartlett,
who lay all night on the lounge without
sleeping, went away. She begged to be
unbound. and promised to behave, so 1
unbound her. She said: "In kill you
for this, sure" She begged me to send
her up two bottles of champagne and she
would get sober. 1 sent them up to her.
l had been wandering about all day, avoid
ing everybody with whom / thought l
might have business, and trying to straight
en- up myself. I was so nervous and felt
such q pressure on my head that l could
not be still in any place. / could neither
stand up nor sit down; had to walk all the
time. / remember that / passed by my
dwelling-house several times during the
day; that l ate my dinner at home; that I
went up to the house in the evening. The
Chinaman had gone away and left the
kitchen door locked. She came in TO the
kitchen in her night clothes, and bare
footed went down into the cellar, as l
thought, for whisky, for she often hid q
bottle down there. When she came up I
said: II think I'll go down town" She
replied: "You s--b b., I'm fixed
for you, and you shan't leave this house."
l tried the kitchen door, and finding that
l could not get out that way l turned
around when my wife confronted me,
screaming: ~I'n kill you; I'll kill you"
She had her right hand pressed against
her hip and covered by her night gown.
In a frenzy of utter nervousness and dread,
l made a supreme effort to rally.
THE DEATH BLOW GIVEN.
/ grasped something-which / now be-
lieve was the fatal chair; do not remember
where or with what I struck. / merely
recollect hearing a crash and seeing her
lying at my feet; don't know how l found
out she was dead; don't remember how I
got out of the house. I remember I
thought of calling my next-door ~neighbor,
Mr.. Buttlar, but l saw no light in his
house; don't remember going down town;
remember telling the Sheriff l had killed
my wife," This ended the defendants tes-
timony.
Judge Davenport, for the State, summed
up the case and read the law to the jury,
defining manslaughter. He spoke briefly,
but said all that he could, and made a
strong argument for conviction. Hon.
Geo. W. Baker made a strong appeal for
the defendant, and handled the subject In
his usual mastery way. Court then took
a recess till afternoon. Upon reassem-
bling it was determined by counsel to let
the case go to the jury at once without
further discussion. W. W. Bishop, ESQ,
who was to speak, and whose address was
looked for with interest, spoke no further
than to say he would rest the case. The
occasion was very tempting to the orator,
who would stir the emotions, and in de-
Ginning to speak Mr.. Bishop must GER
tainly have been restrained by some philo-
sophie motive.
NOT GUILTY.
The jury were out a little less than
twenty minutes when they returned with
a verdict of not guilty. The whole audi
ence had kept their seats in anxious antic-
ipation, and they all felt satisfied with the
announcement. The defendants counsel,
Immediately after a recess of Court was
announced, flocked around Mr.. Lansing
aud congratulated him warmly. He was
grateful for this sympathetic recognition
of friendship, but his face showed that he
was unhappy and the prey to a deep-seated
and irradlcable grief.