The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-01-09
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The Dashinr Spray and Cold Wind Too
Much for = suicide.
OAKLAND. Cal. Jan. 6.-After all his talk
and blustsr, and the many threats he made to
end his life. Joseph Jacinto showed the
white fsatsr and made a dismal ending Of
what might have been q very picturesque
romance. Instead OF following his lady
love 10 shc grave, the matter-of-fact ia
cinto calmly packed his little valise and
quietly fed the town ON N overland train.
evidently fearing that he would be asked
many unpleasant questions about his rsla-
tions with the little fourtsen-year-old girl
who threw herself into the bay because her
mother opposed an early marriage. The
little girls death and the causes that led
up 70 it are most pitiiul. and the nsig aeoss
the little girls loss slmo.t a. kesnly as does
the heartbroken widowed mother.
Little Julia was An exceptionally bright
child and the light of the household, which
had once before been stricken with gloom
Julia and an elder sister charges Of . hard
working mother. Mrs. Brandt placed every
confidence in her children md thought
nothing OF Julis's frequent trips down
town until abe learned that the little girl
was in the habit OF meeting Jacinto. a
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East Oakland was not Of the very best.
First she tried persuasion, then entreaty.
and when these had nc effect IN the love
sick maid Mrs. Bandit used force to dis
suade the girl from meeting her lover.
From the day that che was forbidden to
her whole nature seetned to change. Many
times she made threats Of ending her life.
but no attention was paid to them because
Of the child's tender years.
When Julia's dead body really was cast
up by tho waves IL proved a terrible shock
TO her family. but nons were more over
como than was J~acinto, the swarthy lover.
He raved over her dead body in tho morgue
and became so violent that it Was necessary
TO watch his every movement. beswore he
would lie by the dead girls siGe before
morning, and then be started off for East
Oakland, whore her ~lifsless form had been
buffeted against the piling of Derby's lum-
her wharf, at the foot Of Thirteenth avenue.
But it was a cold night on Thursday, and
the bowling southeaster that threw great
columns Of salty spray over the wharf was
not calculated to inspire a would-be suicide
with confidence in the bay a. q source OF
surceass Of grief. and go Jacinto determined
on a lease OF life at least until the'oppor-
tunities were more favorable and the waves
were not SO threatening.
That night the bereaved lover had$a con
sultation with his brothsr-in-law, a man
named Fletcher, and it was then that he
determined upon flight. This result he
carried out with more success than he did
the threat "a, commit suicide, but it gave
Coroner Evers a great deal of work for
nothing, for when Jacinto failed to obey
the and appear at the %corone,'s
inquest il was thought. of course. that he
had made away with himself, and then fol-
lowed . long hunt for a body that was max
ing efforts to get out of reach with u great
deal more agility than il displayed BY
most suicides.
Since Jaointo showed the white feather
and SO stealthily left the town. Coroner
Evsrs has determined to teach him a Sc
we're lesson. Whom he is found the man
for whom little Julia Brandt killed herself
will be arrested for failing to obey a COR
onsr's subpoena.