The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-07-01
FOR LOVE HE DIED.
Fatal Result Of the Dose OF
Morphine Taken With
SUICIDAL INTENT
By w. q. Huyck, the Night Tele-
graph Operator---Burial Of the
Victim-.-Wife and Lover.

III 1 HE IN EN- VI SCoUOAuoS
lished a full account OF the elopement OF
the wife OF WI Huyck, night operator al
the depot, and the taking of morphine by
the deserted husband with suicidal intent.
At the time Of going to press Huyck was
still alive and DIR. Whitford, the attending
physician, was exhausting all the known
remedies to relieve the unfortunate man OF
the consequences of his act, but 1t was
stated that there was hardly any hope OF
his recovery. The physician fought the
unequal battle until about 3 o'clock a.. M,
and then the drug proved it's superiority
and the victim paid the debt his rashness
and desperation had incurred. Just what
he thought or how he felt no one will ever
know, but in lucid a interval
HE BEGGED TO BE TO DIE,
a request that human skill could not gain
say. Naturally, the tragedy wa a general
topic of conversation in the city yesterday,
and as is usual in such cases, opinions va
ried. Strange as it may appear, the young
man did not seem to have any friends In
this section who knew anything OF his Tor
mer home or antecedents. and as the tru-
ant wife was temporarily beyond reach,
nothing could be ascertained regarding him.
From the stories floating about yesterday
the following will give about a fair idea OF
the situation: Huyck came to Butte some
time ago to enter the telegraph service,
which he did, and soon thereafter he notl-
fed several of the acquaintance that he
had made that he had been recently mar
ried in the East, and that he was anxious
to nave his wife join him. To this end he
labored hard, both in and out OF the office,
to secure the necessary sum to bring her
here. When he had finally gathered the
sum, it was sent to the wife, and, in re-
Spouse, she soon joined him. Just what to
do with her appeared at that time to be a
serious question. That
THE A WAS DESPERATELY IN LOVE
is certain, but it is also certain that he was
not in a position to take are Of and pro-
vide for his wife as she had a right to expect.
Only a day or two after her arrival the
couple called at a boarding house on Main
street and applied for board, the young
woman expressing her desire to pay for her
board in work. She is described as being
at that time apparently about l6 years OF
age, exceedingly fragile in appearance, and
very well dressed. The proprietress OF the
boarding house remarking her youthful
looks, declined to accept her offer to work
f,r board, saying, 'You connot do any
work." "Oh, l al try, was the response,
but no bargain was made and the couple
deppated. just where or how they lived
/ afterwards is not material, but it is related
by those who should know, that the hus'
band became ~insanely Jealous and that ne
attempted to play Blue Beard and lock up
and otherwise ill treat his wife. The grouns
for this conduct he never took the oppor'
tunity to explain, but he persisted in it up
to the last moment. On the other hand
the few people who had taken the trouble
( to watch the coming and going OF the young
woman thought that
SHE WAS TO FLIRT
! and be a little fast, but none of them ever
\ ascribed anything criminal to her until the
! denouement came, and even then they are
! willing to assert that it was the first false
STEP. Most persons are of the opinion that
! Berry and the guilty woman are still in
| Butte, but the following dispatch received
| from Silver Bow yesterday would indicate
| otherwise: 'sMrs. Huyck, wife OF operator
| Huyck, who suicided last night, is said to
| be stopping at Gregson's Springs as the
wife of Berry, with1whom she eloped.' This
| is possible, and it is also certain that un'
/ der no circumstances can the guilty pan
| nave Travelled so far that the news OF the
tragedy has not reached them. When they
| started on their flight, mad with. passion,
both i~magined-nay, convinced themselves
that there was a world of pleasure in the
future to atone for real or fancied wrongs
in the past. Instead, there stalks between
them the spirit of the man whose death
their crime caused, and it is an accusing
| ghost, that will not be laid so long as both
| live. They have transgressed helaws. both
| divine and human, and the penalty must be
paid.
Az for the victim, without a dollar or a
friend, his body was taken in charge by the
one and sent to Singers undertaking
establishment, and thence, at the cost o.
the county, buried in the Potters' Field. II
is a sad ending to a bright dream, and adds
| another to the too frequently recurring do
nestle tragedies in all quarters OF the land