Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-07-07
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.


ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.
Remarkable Career OF The sSigsnlist, |
James Elioe.
J.aes King, who vas convicted in The |
Superior Court last week Of bigsmy and
sentenced to three years in The State Prison
at Folsom, came near ending his life in the
Comfy Jail yesterday morning He was
confined in the same cell with Charles
Barry, who is serving term for receiving
stolen property, and procured the silence of
the latter in regard to his movements by
threatening to Kill him if he informed the
Jailer what he was doing. For two DAYS
past he has been engaged in sharpening an
OLD spoon upon the stone floor Of the cell,
and with this he made an i1cision in his
LEFT wrist, severing the artery, and another
IN his right forearm.
Yesterday morning when iaileT Newbert
relieved night jailer Bennett, and started
10 make his usual rounds, me saw Barry
standing al the wicket Of the cell. his face
pale as death. The frightened prisoner
made slight motion Of his hand 90 indi-
cate that something was wrong in the cell.
ald Hewbert quickly opened it. He found
Krg bleeding freely from the wound in
his left arm and holding it IN q bucket of
water, evidently supposing the flow would
b. Increased thereby. 4 moment la.er The
Would be suicide tainted away from loss OF
hood. He was carried Out into the yard
Wire restoratiyes were applied. Or. Park
il was summoned At once, took up The
sr'ery, sewed NJ and bandaged The wound
King was then placed IN q separate cell.
Later in the day 4 RECORD UNION r.
p ,er called, and found him very weak.
bt4t IA. Pol al. - Il.
fu-a.e prospects. He said that he had got
tp1 over his desire TO de, and meant 20
sc,ve out his time like d man, and ben
be got out of prison again 10 live a blame
les life. His rash act Of The morning had
zen caused by dependency and remorse,
2 hy the feeling that everything was 20
iDg against him. He had been victim OF
circumstances, and although he had tried
to i've an honest life he he'd besn coatinu-
ally followed by illfortune The verdict
against him in the 5igamy case was no
doubt just one, from the evidence intro
dlcsd, but if he had been allowed to put in
evidence certain letters in his possession,
h. would not have been found guilty.
Kiag then proceeded to give The following
account OF
HIS REMARKABLE CAREER.
was born either in 1857 or 1861, | am
nos sure which-my sisters say in 1857,
wien would make me thirty years old the
18Th of last June. NY name was James
c tsln, my iather being brother of Ben
Cotton, the well-known comedian. | was
adopted in 1867 by William King, at that
time Superintendent of the Oregon Rail
Ioad, running TO the Cascades.
] was married on the 9TH of IAN
uery, 1873. to Miss Molie e Curlev, in
O-eEon City. got into some difficulty at
th6t time and afterwards was sentenced TO
tt penitantiary for life, as you have al
Is3iy published. ! IVES arrested on the
20 n Of March, 1879, was sentenced on Oc-
tobsr 4, 1879, and was pardoned January
10 1887, the man who committed the muir
der Tor which l was sentenced having con-
fessed the crime. My pardon was secured
b. Hon. 4. =. Ehrhardt Secretary of State
OF Oregon. | intended 10 20 to Montana
tC work for him, but about the time was
going to leave there was q letter sent to
Governor Il. +. Moody, of Oregon. from
my first wife, asking for my release, stating
that was innocent OF the crime, that she
had child to support and had been sup
porting it for years. When arrived at the
Capitol to get my instructions for the work
IL Montana, which was to be in the railroad
business for Mr.. Ehrhardt, | was shown
this letter, and he gave me passes to go to
San Francisco to look after my wife The
letter gave the address, Mrs J. W. King,
No. Q, Vallejo Terrace, San Francisco
When | got to San Francisco | went to
that address, ard was astonished to find
that no one OF that name ever lived there
| was told, however, that there was q lady
from Oregon who answered the descrip-
ton living at III Post street | was ac-
companled by a sister of the lady who
lived at No. Vallejo Terrace. and when
We got there | found that il was the woman
I oI 81
had been divorced from me, and had been
legally married to a NAH named A J. ST.
velle. She asked the if would do right and
Just by Eer, and said she would get q dj-
Vorce from him and we would commence
life over again. She told me she had lit
tie boy by him, who was kept at 954 Mis-
sion street by Mrs LaFrance She asked
me 10 go down and see it, which did
they knowing her and her husband, and
Size introduced me as her brother from
Oregon. Just arrived on the steamer Thai
night We took rooms at the Northorpe
House, and remained there a short time. !
asked her again, for d positive fact if she
was legally divorced from me, and if she
was legally married TO Sivelle, and she
told me that she was. | never thought 70
asa her where or when she got Inc divorce.
After we had been there 81 short time
her husband returned from Lower Calitor-
MIA and | was very much surprised Al
tee time he returned there were a number
of MY friends, actresses, who were roomiDg
the7', aud they found out all the circum.
siailces and advised me to keep out of the
way and not have anything more to dc
with her. | saw that | was liable to gel
into trouble. He warned me that he
wanted me never TO go with bis wife again
il ! did there would be trouble She
went out with him that evening and
they went and lived on Minna street, near
Flfh. | went to another part of the CITY
where they would not see me any more
We met several times afterwards on the
street | stopped with ex-Judge Smiths
wife, One evening there was lady called
and told me there was q letter waiting fol
n!9 on Market street. I went and got i
2C1 found il was from Mrs Sivelle, as she
Il. ways STYLED herself She was stopping a.
BsrHsl Villa. / wen out that evening and
she said again that she had some trouble
with Al her husband. She did not know
VIVA; 20 do. told her to get divorce from
him. and she said she would. She asked
me to come out in the middle of the week
and l did. When | got there founi
sac had been taken very sick anC
had been removed to ST. Mary's Hospital
That was in May, 1887.
Il went and visited her She asked ne
to go down to the Office of the White
COOKS and Walters Union, and see if
could find out what had become of her hus
band. He belonged to that Order, and
afterwards joined it, | went down and in
quired his whereabouts, but they said they
were instructed not to reveal his where
abou;s TO any one. Finally told them
his wife WAS lying at the point of death
and they gave me his address as Tulart
City, Tulare county. They also returned
me letter she had addressed to him.
returned to the hospital with the letter
AMI she asked ME then if she would leav,
him and get a divorce if | would take he
back. told her that would, because
thought il was through me that she hat
heeD compelled TO work for living
Went south ard worked FOR brother o
the Sheriff of Monterey county, Thoma
Graves, of Gonzales, and every week l sen