Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-05-03
SUICIDE.
sad Ending of the ChecISered Life of a
 Beautiful Woman.

From the Homer, (Cal.,l Mining Index
 4 late telegram from Tucson, Arizona, the suicide of Mrs. Ii. P. Free man, wife of the postmaster of that place, by the shooting through the left breast, while laboring under mental de- superinduced by sickness and nervous pros;ratIon. The telegram says she left note to her husband, ex- pTessive of her love for him, but stating that her life was more than she could bear.
 Mrs. Freeman was still young (not more. perhaps, than thirty; she was a beautiful and otherwise in every way a most charming and lovable woman, and, inasmuch as she had tasted of the bitter and the sweet of life to a most re- maTkable degree for one so young, and through II all maintained her purity and maiden modesty, We propose to gIve the readers of the Index few incidents in the history Of her checkered life-be- cause sne was moral heroine the study of whose trials and triumphs Is calcu- lated tc strengthen the weak, reclaim the wayward and excite the admiration and emulation of all.
 When scarcely fifteen years of age, by request of an older sister and consent of their parents, she accompanied the sis ter from their home in one of the West ern States to San Francisco, where, by previous engagement, the sister was married to a well-tO-do merchant. For a few weeks everything ran smoothly and bOth. sisters were drinking deep of happiness, until one morning the brutal brother-In-law said abruptly to the tlm- i'd young girl III that city of strangers: "I didn't marry you, and l will not sup port you; you must get out and rustic!
 Merciful, compared with this shock, would have been the cruel bullet that aiteTwards found its way through her pure young heart Though young timid, and (under such circumstances, to herselO dangerously beautiful, edu- cated, refined, in strange city, and un- used to drUdgery, she at once quilted her slsters's fouse forever, and sought an intelligence office. Here she was overioyed to ind situation at $50 per
 month, board and lodging, was at her command at Elko, Nevada, to watt on table at small eating house near the railroad, and that her fare would be paid to Elko-and the amount deducted from her wages.
 On her arrival at ElkO she was met at the cars and heartily welcomed as my little beauty" by as brutal looking and lecherous looking old beast as ever as sumed the form of man. He ushered her into low lager beer dive in the rear of the railroad hotel, showed her to a room in the rear and told her to make herself at home, as she would have noth- ing to do until evening. As she saw about the premises two or three bleal- eyed hags whose faces were scanned from the effects of dissipation, she suspected she had been deceived as to the chargc- ter of the house; but when at nIghtfall the proprietor called upon her to enter the drinking saloon (the only signs of an "eating hooss" being R lunch stand) and make herself agreeable to the gentle men" by waiting upon, drinking with and listening to the ribald jests and vul- gar songs of lot of drunken roughs, she protested and asked to be released from her enga cement and turned into the street. The brutal landlord flew into towering rage, threatened to whip her and have her arrested and sent up" for obtaining money (her fare) un- der false pretenses, and peremptOrily or deTed her to Ego to work" Sle entered the bar room and did the best she could, many a time and oft during that dread ful night casting wistful glances at the pItiless, snow sUorm raging without, and which precluded the possibility of her escape if she should make a break for liberty.
 Imagine an educated, refined and tiEald young girl (not yet sixteen thous- and miles away from home and friends, without dollar, with the whole world seemingly against her, shrouded in such a black, impenetrable cloud of moral de- pravity and brutality, in such den! But the worst was yet to come. Next day the bloated and beastly landlord i've have forgotten his name or We would give it cheerfully), thinking she had resigned herself to the fate which had overtaken his other victims, made advances and finally the most infamous proposals. He was repulsei with scorD, and the noble young girl took to her rooms and kept the door locked all day. At night the landlord called her to go to work, and when she unlocked the door to come out he stepped into her room. and in the most shocking language told her that she had ''got to submit" to the qualification of his begstiality. Quick as thought she threw up the front window of her room, winch opened on the sidewalk, leaped out into the deep snow, and raD, she knew not where, screaming through the darkness and storm. The landlord pur- sued, but when he saw one arm of a gi- gantic figure seize and support the faint ing girl while the other hand of the same figure was playing rapidly among the straps and buckles of a pOnderous fur overcoat as if to get in for pistol, he returned to his dive faster than he left it. and concealed himself for the night.
 This figure was that of O. R Johnson, brother-in-law of the late Hill Beachy, at that time both well-known and popu- lar stage men and mail contractors in California, Oregon, Idaho and Nevada. He had just arrived from Idaho by stage, and, untitled from head to foot in heavy fur garments, was vending his way through the darkness and storm to the railroad hotel when he met the scream ing girl. She tried to avoid hIm, for he looked more like a monster bear Tn an upright position than like man, but he seized her-and no weary and conhding child ever fell into the arms of a more gentle, tender and loving father. He took her to the hotel, listened to the story of her wrongs, told her she should never be without home while he had one, placed her in charge of the landlady of the hotel Mrs John D. Treat, ex- amined his pistols carefully, went round | to the dive, walked In and called for a glass of beer-and then for the landlord. | CJohnson has a goodly current of the | best Cherokee blood in his veins. But | the landlord was not 60 be found. John | son took the girl to his own home, where a mutual, most devoted and lasting at tachment at once sprung up between her and Mrs. Johnson.
 Shortly after these occurrences she met Matt. Pixley-a gallant, noble, manly and good looking young fellow brother to E. Beam, formerly of Bodie and now of the c. < c. Railroad, and 10 Bob. .tbe mining expert)-aud mutual love