Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-21
FOUND ON A GRAVE.
A Western Man Suicides From Grief
Over the Loss of His Wife.
THE BODY COVERED WITH SNOW.
Its Whereabouts Revealed in Dream to
His Sister, Nellie.
TIE MOTHER REFUSED TO LOOK AT HIN

A young girl with slngularly attractive
face, but wearing a very saddened express
sion, sat in the Union depot yesterday after
noon, waiting for Western train. She was
arrayed in dress of deep black, and was SO
preoccupied with her sorrowful reflections
as to be unmindful Of the busy world about
her. She was accompanied by young fel-
low, and from the many points of resem-
blance between them it was apparent
he was a brother. The boy was
res tless and chafed under the delay.
He paced up and down the depot, and fire.
queutly wandered out to see the trains ar
rive and depart. at the same time keeping
his sister posted on the snail-like movements
uf the clock.
The girls name was Nellie Hendricks,
and she hailed from New Hampshire. She
was going West again TO settle up the estate
of her Oldest brother, having few days ago
seen the bodies of himself and wife depos-
tied in an Eastern grave. She was taking
the younger brother with her to help in the
work. The dead one had met his fate by his
own hand. under peculiarly distressing cir
cumstances. and the poor sister had not yet
recovered from the shock.
A Romance in Real Life.
Six years since George Hendricks with
his young wife went West and located on q
ranch some miles in the interior of Wyo-
ming from Rawlins station, ON the Union
Pacific road. He thrived in the cattle busl-
ness, and every fall came East to sell off his
stock. Last August his wife died, and
feeling very lonesome in the wilderness he
sent for his sister Nellie to keep him COM
pany. Nellie gladly and willingly re-
sponded, and went to spend the winter
with her brother on the ranch. She
found him on her arrival waiting for her at
Rawlins station, but he was sad and de-
jected. He tried to smile, but like SUM-
beam chased by black cloud, 1t passed
away into a look of despair. The sister
tried to cheer up her brother. but the loss of
his wife preyed so on his mind that to re-
lieve his sorrow he took to drinking. Ee
kept the bug juice in big jugs in tine cellar
until he discovered that Nellie was pouring
it away as fast almost as he brought it home.
He then hid it in hay stack and other un-
suspected places Nellie reasoned with him
in vain, but he went from bad to worse.
One day he disappeared and she never
saw him alive again. She looked and
watched for his coming. and the farm hands
secured the country for miles around with
out finding trace of the missing brother.
A heavy snow had fallen in the meantime,
and everybody felt sure he must be dead.
Even Nellie no longer could escape the
terrible conclusion.
Dream With a Terrible Meaning.
About week after his Disappearance she
had dream. She thought she saw her
brother lying on the grave of his
wife with bullet hole in his temple.
The phantasm was so real as to awake her
and she sat up trembling. She tried to
sleep again. but the horrible picture was
constantly before her. Next morning she
was up bright and early, and putting on
snow Shoes she went with two OF the hands
to the grave of the wife. 1t was on q little
knoll not far from the house. She ordered
the men to clear away the snow, and there
sure enough was the body of her brother
George. A revolver lay by his side, and
the ground was covered with frozen blood.
His sorrow had driven him to suicide, and
he had committed the rash act over the last
resting place of the one he loved best.
Nellie tainted at the sight, but the men
rubbed her face and temples with snow and
she soon recovered physical strength, and
with it her composure. The body was we'll
preserved, and she decided to take both
wife and husband home to New Hampshire
for burial. The bodies passed through Pitts
burg several weeks ago, but it was one OF
the many things that are bound to escape
the vigilance of reporters.
Turned Against Her Dead Son.
The mother is Christian woman of the
old school, with a fanatical turn OF mind,
and when she heard how her son died she
refused to look at his face. and objected to
the body being brought into the house. She
declared he was bad man and had gone to
hades. The minister and other ladies in
the church reasoned with her, and she
finally consented to take In the body, but
she would not look at the face of her son.
Husband and wife were buried side by side
in the old family lot The funeral was
very large one.
Yesterday Nellie, with her younger
brother, passed through the city on the
way to the ranch. They intend
to sell the property and return to the East.
She is bright girl, about % years old, and
her sudden trial has aroused all the latent
powers within her. She was a little hyster-
ical at times as she told the story, but she is
a brave girl and it is safe to say will accom-
plish her work. Her father is dead, and
she now being the Oldest felt it her duty to
settle up the estate.
CARPENTER tells gonna oood storjes