Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-06-11
A VILE CRIME.
The Criminal Intimacy or a Father
with His Little Daughter.


with His Little Daughter.
Yesterday afternoon Constable Penrose
brought down from Ruby Hill a 12-year
old girl, who swore out a complaint fol
+incest AGAINST her father. She tells a sick.
ening story. Her name IS Minnie Eustice.
She was ~ years old last month. Hei
fathers name is James Eustice. He is 9
miner, and has been employed in the
Richmond mine. He has three children,
Minnie, and two others, a five-year-old son
and a little daughter two years Of age
His wife died the 18th of last November
He protested great grief over the bereave-
ment and appeared inconsolable. She had
not been in her grave a week, however, be-
fore he seems to have buried all decency
n became a monster.
On the 22d of November he gave way to
his unnatural and british lust, and by
force outraged his daughter Minnie, moi
then IL years old. She says he has re-
peatedly done the same thing since, and
always by violence.
She is a mere child in size and appear.
ance. She is rather small for her age,
She is a dark brunette. but has a clear,
rich complexion. Her features are good,
and she is what would be called q rather
healthy, n~ice-looking little girl. She has
very large, intelligent, brown eyes, and
seems to be a very bright child. Since her
mothers death she has done the work of
the house and taken care of the other chill
dren.
When the complaint against her father
was read to her, Justice Harmon asked
her if she understood what was meant by
it. She said yes. When he asked her il
she understood the nature of an oath, she
answered: eyes; it means that if l don't
tell the truth, you'll send me to Carson
She then signed her name to the instru-
ment, wiping the tears from her eyes first
in order to do so. While this was going
on the excitement on the street had
brought a crowd to the front of the Office,
and the Judge ordered the door locked to
keep out the prurient throng. After sign
ing the complaint and reasserting what it
contained in answer to questions by the
Justice, Minnie Eustice, Joined by two
girl companions of her own age, started
home and walked back to Ruby Hill.
1t seems that the horrible crime had
been known on the Hill for several weeks,
but no mi spoke to Eustice about it until
yesterday, when a friend talked with him
about the stories in circulation concerning
him. He did not deny the heinous crime,
but only exclaimed, as though in the
utmost confusion: "Whai shall 1 do ?
What shall I do?" One of his friends
advised him to run away, which advice he
took and skipped out about 4 o'clock in
the afternoon, towards Adams Hill.
Eustice is well known here. He is
a good singer and has a fine tenor
voice. He used to sing in a quartette at
political meetings in the late State cleo
ton. He is a small, indifferent looking
man, between 35 and 40 years Of age. That
he would have turned out to be such a
lend never was contemplated.
Efforts had been made, but in vain, to
have his daughter complain against him.
But yesterday her ignorance of the ways of
the law was taken advantage of to in
duce her to do so. In order to get this
means of proceeding against him she was
told that if she would swear out the
complaint he would be allowed to es-
cape. She did so, when the officers,
Sheriff Kyle and Constable Penrose, i'm
mediately went in pursuit of him on
horseback.
The affair has excited the ~profoundest
indignation and disgust in the commu-
nifty, especially 80 when it was told that
by intercourse with her the wretched
girl had become e~nceinte. This is an I'M
founded story and cannot be true for
physical reasons, the young victim not
yet having arrived at puberty.
Nothing else hardly was talked Of on
the streets last night, and if it had not
been known that the brute of a father
was beyond their reach, the excited
crowd would probably have hunted him
out and given him a handling OF their
W in anticipation Of justice In the reg
ular course of law.
The officers returned at 9 O'Clock after q
fruitless search for the fugitive. Sheriff
Kyle has made every arrangement to So
cure his arrest to-day, If he has not gone
out Of the country. If he reaches the
railroad he will be caught there, as tele-
grams have been sent all along the line to
intercept him. Mr.. Kyle authorizes us to
say that he will pay $3.50 reward for his ar.
rest and delivery to him at the Jail in Eu-
reks.