The Arizona sentinel., 1883-03-24

A short time ago we gave few fact
 concerning the shameful manner II
 which S. P. Davis, of Modesto, Califor
 mia, deserted his wife while she was Ill
 with small-p and left her to die alone
 and unattended except by strangers.
 What we said at that time was the truth,
 and showed the man to be an abiect cow
 ard. but we did not give all of the facts.
 We give a few more of them herewit h,
 for the double purpose of clinchirg our first assertion, and to show also that the
 man is most abominable liar. When
 he reached home, after leaving Yuma, he
 represented to the parents of his deceas-
 ed wife that he was the most devoted | husband in the world, and that he was
 constantly at her side, and that he only
 left her after her body was covered in its
 grave. On the evening in which she
 attempted to find her husband the writer
 asked Davis pertinently why he did not
 accompany his wife, instead of leaving
 her wholly at the mercy of strangers.
 He replied that 1t was not at all necessa- ", as he was in hourly communication with her by courier. At that time he had written to her that her mother and child had both died that day. To find if this was true she made her ill-starred trip. AS we stated before, he saw her but once after perpetrating that miser- able lie. When her delirium made it impossible for the one male nurse to con- trol her, he refused to employ an assist ant, and allowed the poor creature to he tied hand and foot, strapped to the bed, and thus left to die alone. When told she was either dying or dead, he "allow- ed that ill that case he couldn't do noth- in fur her"-and didn't. Then came the question of a coffin. For S15 the undertaken would have made neat, box, coffin shaped, with plain lining and trimmings, or, he would make plain rough box, square, with out trimmings or lining, for $10. Davis chose the lat ter, and to save the additional expense of pillow to support his wiie's head III her long sleep, he told the carpenter that a few shavings near the head of the box would answer. The idea Of paying a fancy price for coffin for smallpox patient was; as he said, preposterous. Now this man has told in Modesto that | his grief was so acute thai had it not been for Dr. Gilmore he should have laid down by her side and died with her, and been to-day in the same grave. For the repose Of her ashes we are sincerely thankful that such is not the case. He was heather at her side when she died, | when she was put into her coffin nor when she was buried. Al Cf lhis WAS done for him by strange Usd'L not follow her body to the ~r4F, F.n at ] distance; and today S. P Davis cannot i tell, of his own knowle where Iii, . wife's body reposes. 1 aue.. ara- : misses, through one of the Modesto pap 1 CTS, to make public reputation of the charges made by Us aga1nst Davis We'll | doctor, when we get through with DavIs | we will turn our attention to you, and | your empty headed egotism. You will | come in for your share of opprobrium But 1t is for Davis that we reserve our lslest contempt. and as long as there is ink and paper in the SENTINEL office no man can come to Yuma, make the record he has, and then go away and say that Yumaites tried to rob him. We cannot even rob h1m of hIs good name, for that he never had.