The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-12-26
A SUICIDE.
WOMAN's INFATUATION LEADS TO
HER DEATH BY HER
OWN HAND.
A Bullet Crashes Through Her Brain and
uife's Dream Ends
Forever.

Day before yesterday neatly
dressed lady, apparently about 20
years of age, reached this city from
Dallas.
She was, at her own request, driven
to highly respectable boarding house,
where she put up and where her
modest and lady-like department won
the respect of the landlady.
After being made comfortable at the
boarding house she sougth Capt. Lucy
to whom she had written from Dallas
a few days before her arrival lin Aus
tin.
She met Capt. Lucy and to him re-
lated a pathetic story. He deeply
sympathized with her and gave her
all the assistance possible.
She was terribly wrought up and
from her acts it was evident that she
was infatuated with a gentleman
whom she was seeking.
Capt. Lucy, to aid her out of the
difficulties she alleged beset her,
kindly consented to seek the informa-
ton she wanted and wrote a letter
Friday night to distant part of the
state for that purpose.
THE TERRIBLE DEED.
Nothing was observed about the
conduct of the lady to lead one to think
for moment that she contemplated
taking her own life.
But she did.
About o'clock last afternoon, as
Mr.. John INLAND, proprietor of the
"Elite" saloon, and his assistant were
in the front part arranging glasses be-
hind the bar, the sharp report of PTS
tol was heard in the rear part of the
building.
They and Officers Gibson and
Hornsby, who from the sidewalk
heard the report rushed back into the
rear rooms of the establishment and
in one of them, all alone, they were
Mortified to find the young lady, the
subject of this sketch, lying on the
floor gasping, while blood and parti-
Giles of her brains slowly oozed from a
bullet hole directly over the right ear.
Near her, on the floor, was a small
revolver with two chambers empty, one
of them from indications having been
in that condition for some time.
The lady had gained admission to
the saloon from the alley in the rear
of the building and no one suspected
her presence.
A MYSTERY.
Coroner Calhoun was notified and
in few moments he was at the scene
of the tragedy and took
charge of the body and effects.
He had the body removed to Mr..
Monroe Miller's undertaking establish
ment.
The lady at the time of her death
was neatly dressed and had on hand
some gold watch and chain, wore a
beautiful set of earrings with small
diamonds in them and neat pair of
gold bracelets.
In her dress pocket was found a
rather lengthy and we'll written letter.
1t made very grave charges, and in
pathetic language depicts woman's I'M
bounded love and constancy and mans
perfidy.
The charges contained in the letter
may be untrue. They may be the vagar-
les of mind disordered by frenzied
love.
They are strenuously and emphati-
cally denied, and The STATESMAN this
morning refrains from their publica-
ton in justice to the living
With her letter, which was written
in this city Friday, were other papers
to which she refers, written in a dis
tant city as corroborating her state
ments.
The name OF the lady was Emma
Sandusky, and she says that is the
"only name she was ever known by"
She was a resident OF Galveston, but
of late has been living in Dallas,
where she earned q livelihood as a
type writer.
Her mother, a most respectable
lady it is said, lives in Galveston, and
she was notified last afternoon by
Coroner Calhoun of the sad death of
her daughter, and last night Mr..
Miller received instruction TO have the
body embalmed and forwarded to Gal
weston this morning.
At the boarding house the lady
left a small valise containing some
neat wearing apparel and a very large
number of letters. The latter may
throw much light on her past life,
which from her dying statement and
other documents, has been that of an
honorable, loving, confding and up
right woman.