Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-08-10
A SENSATION.
The Pit Into Which o Lady. Killer
Fell

He Rules the Roast for Years-He
Causes Ono Woman to Apply the
"Bare nOdkfn" for Ills sake.
After Being Divorced for Him
lie Marries and Has several Chill.
dreu-A Former Husband Comes
and Claims the Wffe-Retributive
Justice.
Some years ago there lived in Eureka .
highly-cultivated. scientific man, promi-
nent in our local circles as a superintend-
ent Of mines, metsllurgist and mining
engineer. He cut q very wide swath on
the Base Range, for he not only made
money hand over fist, but he held many
strings in his hand which made him a
power in the land. He fairly piled up the
ducats. He had q royalty on everything.
You couldn't sell a hole in the ground
unless he allowed you to and got his
pockets lined for granting you the priv
lege Of doing 80 without getting q black
eye in the trade from him. He was king
pin. He had seen much of the great
world. He was the graduate Of q college
that had = long name. He was polished.
He dressed always CONNIE IL faut, and he
was fond Of the ladies. OF course, they all
thought he was Just too sweet to live a
minute" He was q mssher-a powerful
masher. He whiled some Of his happier
leisure hours away in the society OF a
courtessp who renowned the rest OF the
world for him alone. At last she became
an encumbrance, in view Of other pro-
jected conquests, and she consented to go
back to the turf in consideration Of q
round sum and never to cast knowing
glances upon him any more. He was
wrapped up in love for himself, and did
not hesitate to forage in anybody else's
pasture II he saw the bars left down or If
he could jump the rails. He brought
about a divorce, 80 the story goes, Of .
fascinating lady who was living happily
with her husband, . prominent gentleman
OF Eureka. some eight years ago. She
completely daft. The divorce accom-
plished he was to marry her, but in order
to become Q helpmeet for him she had to
go to San Francisco and place herself un-
der the masters Of the Pacific Coast me-
btOPO1io " 10 CAutotod W w LAO PiohS.
She went after French (Ollendorffs
method Of reading, writing and speaking
the Gallo tongue in q week. and music,
OF course. The dashing mining engineer,
who had stolen her affections, got tired
Of the conquest in the meanwhile and
wrote her he could not carry out the en-
gagement. He sent her an order for
SIS, 900 as q balm for the cruel wound
thus inflicted. but she could not stand
the cruel blow aud took a dose OF cold
poison. On receiving the news of her
death be telegraphed to his banker to hold
the S., 900 balsam, but the suicides folks
had been quick and drawn it for use
in memoriam. This is a part Of the story
Of Dur hero's sowing OF wild oats.
Some six years ago he met an heiress
OF San Francisco worth $780, 900 in her
name. His heart began at once
to beat with hers, although some
who remember him and
circumstance very well say the heav-
ing OF bis bosom was caused by contem-
the lucre that she would bring
him. The couple were married. The re-
of the union has been two or three
children, whose father has been accumu-
money hand over fist until Ire has
at last become bloatcd, and hence floats
among the creme de la creme OF the
moneyed aristocracy Of the Bay City. All
went merrily, and If ever q cloud appeared
over his domestic horizon nobody has
heard of it. The felicity of home was pre-
perfect. His wife ito say nothing
Of the Sl00, 000) was all he could wish.
But she had terrible secret. For years
she kept it in her own bosom. 1t was like
a powder magazine under the domestic
hearth, however, with a slow match affixed
to it and fired, which was sure to explode
in course OF time, reno the household into
atoms and scatter it to the four winds OF
A fearful retribution was being
prepared for the destroyer OF another's
peace and the cause Of another's self
destruction.
Some six weeks ago q rather young man
from the East cam to San Francisco and
entree into the family that we
refer to. He was handsome, stylish and
altogether as much Of a society man and
as the principal Of this nara
He visited the mansion several
times, and then, without arousing any
suspicion, he returned to the Atlantic
Very shortly afterwards the lady
in question e East also. II now turns
that she had married the Eastern Wis.,
ltOI, VINO WAS tne sou OF u uOtel-keeper on
the Atlantic seashore, some eight years ago
the sly, when she was back there on q
tour with her father; but that for fear Of
his wrath and disin heritance neither she
her drst spouse had ever dared to men,
ton the marriage under the rose. The
first husband now claims the wife, who is,
OF course. his. and she prefers to 60 back
TO her first flame aud live with him. The
gay Lothsrio formerly Of the Base Range
will have TO make the best Of the situation.
There are those In Eureka who said when
he married the San Francisco heiress.
who knew her. that abe had q smoth-
cred devil In her. and that she would lead
him . merry dance. And she has done it.
All the minutin OF this half-romantic
story will doubtless be occupying columns
OF the San Francisco papers In . few days
under startling headlines. For the pres
emit We prefer to withhold the names OF the
referred to. The information We
have 10 obtained from q letter to . lady
high in the social world Of Eureka from .
friend below, and It Is. In the main, doubt.
less correct.
Aahestes.
We are indebted TO Capt. Rock for a