The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-09-19
SARAH DORMODY'S DEATH.
The Mystery that Enshrouded It Has
Been Removed.
Deserted by Her Afianced She Became
Broken Hearted - Her
Touching Story.

Through relatives in San Francisco of
pretty Sarah Dormody, the young girl
who committed suicide at Green Springs,
III Dorado County, week ago, the sad
story has been made public of the cause
which led to the rash act on the part of
the country maiden. She was engaged
to be married, but had been deserted by
her faithless lover. George II. Eveland,
VINO was until recently guard at the
State Prison at Folsom.
A little more than year ago, says the
San francisco Examiner, Sarah Dormody
made the acquaintance of Eveland. He
courted and won her and made many
trips on the Green Springs stage to see
the girl whom he had promised to marry.
july 10Th was set for the wedding day,
and the girls living in the neighborhood
OF the Dormody's talked of the approach
ing marriage of their pretty companion
| from sunrise to shutdown.
But shortly before the day set for the
nuptials it was noticed that Sarah had
lost her cheerful ways. She did not want
to talk about the event that every one
thought would make her the happiest
girl in all El Dorado County, aud it was
noticed that the visits OF George Eveland
had ceased, and some one told the secret
That the letters that the mailboy, Virgil,
used to bring regularly in the big mail
bag from the stalwart young guard at
| FOLSOM had also ceased, although il was
known that the faithful girl wrote many
ong letters to her lover.
THE GROOM CAME NOT.
At last time brought round the day set
Tor the wedding. The trosseau was ready
and preparations made for the honey-
| moon, for although George had for sew
eral weeks ceased to write he had pledged
| his troth III such an earnest, manly way
that the hopeful girl fought against her
| own miSgivingS and waited and hoped
and hoped again.
| The wedding did not take place. Eve
| land did not come, and so the wedding
| dress and all the dainty laces and dra-
| perleS were put away by the poor GIRLS
mother-hidden in closet as She would
| have hidden her daughters clothes if she
| had buried her.
Two or three weeks after this a letter
| came to Sarah Dormody from Watson
vile. 1t was from George H. Eveland.
There was not much in the letter, but it
| opened the wound i'll the poor girls heart
airesh. 1t stated briefly that the wedding
| could not take place because there was a
| bar-somebody was in the way-some-
| body whose name the writer did not
want to mention, because it might make
trouble. He was, he said, very sorry,
and hoped that she would soon get over
! her disappointment.
For days the girl brooded over this,
and then she wrote the following on a
piece of note paper and pinned it to Eve
lands letter:
Died of broken heart
Please read this when am gone-then you
Will not blame me, tor / cannot live and be
deceived again; for have lived long enough
10 hnd that this world is full OF deceit so
goou-Dy 10 all. SARAH DoRMoDY.
TO GEORGE H. EvELAND.
1fyou're going to love me George
Love me now, while can knew
Al! the sweet and tender feelings
Which from real affection flow
Love me now, while am living
Do not wait till am gone
And then chisel ii in marble,
Warm love words on icecold stone.
Ifyouve dear, sweet thoughts about me,
Why not whisper them to me?
Don't you know 1t would make me happy,
And as glad as glad can be?
If you wait TIL am sleeping
Ne'er TO wake up here again,
Ihere'll be walls OF earth between US,
And couldn't hear you then.
Ifyou knew some one was thirsting
For drop of water sweet
Would you be so slow to bring il?
Would you step with laggard feet?
There are tender hearts all round us
Shall we begrudge to them what heaven
Has kindly lent us from above?
l won't feel your kind caresses
When the grass grows DER my face;
won't crave your love or kisses
In my last low resting-pace.
So If you do love me any,
If it's but little bit,
I'd rather know ii now while
Can, living, own and treasure It,
Virgil, the mail boy, when he makes
! his daily trip between Green Springs and
Folsom, carries with him revolver.
! When at the house he places it for safety
| in drawer Early on the mornin0 Of
! the Sth instant Mrs. Dormody and her
daughter Rosa returned to the house
| from their regular morning milking
! duties, and as Sarah was not PREPARING
breakfast they called to her. But no
answer came, and Mrs. Dormody went
| upstairs Tor the purpose of awakening
! her daughter.
When she entered the room she found
the body of the poor girl upright is sit
! ting posture in bed, Nirgil's revolver in
one hand, and the above short note and
| verses and the last letter she received
| from jacksonville, inclosed in an en-
velope and addressed to Eveland, in the
| other.
| The strain had been too much for her.
! She had arisen after her mother and sis
! ter had left the house and secured the re-
| volver, and. after braiding her hair, had
deliberately propped herself up in bed
with the pillows and then sent the bullet
! crashing through her heart.
Two days later she was buried. She
wore her pretty wedding dress for her
| winding sheet, and all the finery that her
! fingers had deity worked was placed be-
! side her in her coffin, upon which her
many youthful friends and companions
| let fall tear in token of their sorrow at
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