The Nome daily gold digger., 1907-02-04

MT. Nutter, l have shot myself and l don't know why did it" was 1 the statement of Miss Elsa Wagnes, twenty-year-old girl, as she enter ed the room at the Miocene Com pany's camp on Glacier creek, where, but a few moments before, she had been playing game of cards with her little girl friend, Caroline Nutter. Miss Wagner died | few minutes later
 Theodore Nutter, the foreman of the camp, picked her up and carried her room, and immediately telephon- ed to Dr. Sloan who prepared to go out, but received another message before he started, in which he was told that the girl had died.
 The story of the tragedy is best told in the evidence given at the in- quest.
 Dr. Moore, the first witness called stated that he had made an autopsy of the body and found that the bull l let had entered the left side between the third and fourth rio, piercing the upper edge of the heart, and that death had resulted four or five minutes later. He believed that the
 
 reason that the waist which the de- ceased wore had been badly stained with powder and that the gun had been held very close to the body, when the shot was fired. Death had resulted from internal hemorrhage. The witness further stated that the deceased suffered from melanchOlia, and that he had been her physician | e1, ,u | Dr Derbyshire corroborated the l testimony of Dr. Moore, excepting 1 that he was not certain that the wound had been self-inaicted.
 David Davidson, testified that the deceased was a niece of his wife l that he had nouced nothing remark able about her excepting that she was of a very nervous temperament and did not like to be crossed. Mrs. Nutter and the deceased left Nome at ten o'clock on Saturday morning for the camp in a dog team driven by Alfred Johnson. He knew Of no reason why she should take her life. Both her parents are dead; she has lived with an aunt until the time of the earthquake in San Francisco; and came to Nome last June. A few months ago the deC .sei had attempted to commit suicide by talk ] ing chloroform, stating at the time | that she had no reason for so doing. | Dr. Moore was recalled, and testl- | fed that he treated the deceased for the effects of the dose of cnoiorotorm she had absorbed; that the decease! without doubt suffered from acute melancholia the deceased mad all | the symptoms of the disease, and in- | formed him that her reason for at- tempting to end her life was because she could see no reason for living and that her life had been failure. | Melancholia Is a mild form Of 1n- sanity, which often leads to self-de- struction. It is sometimes hereditary, and is sometimes caused from nerV- ousness.
 Theodore Nutter testified that the deceased arrived at the camp In per feet good spirits, and an hour before her death had been singing to the accompaniment of the photograph. At five o'clock In the afternoon the deceased was playing a game or cards with his little daughter, and he heard her tell the girl to shuhle and that she would be back in a ! minute. A lew mlHul6S DUCT ShO came out of the room and made the statement as given above. He heard no sound of the shot. The pistol used was owned by Mrs. Nutter and had been lying on the buleau in the bedroom for many mouths. The de ceased appeared perfectly cheerful up until the time of the occurrence.
 He found the pistol lying on the floor His hands became powder stained from the dress of the de- ceased. He accounted for his not
 hearing the shot by the fact that the room in which 1t was fired was separated from the others by wall of three feet of snow, and the steam I heating plant was creating consider
 able noise.
 Wm. Kinney testified that he
 heard MT. Nutter call for his wife
 to assist him. He corroborated the
 evidence of the last witness.
 Alfred Johnson testified that he had been present soon after the de-
 ceased had attempted to commit sui eide by taking chloroform. The de- ceased appeared very down hearted at the time, and told him that she wished to end her life because she had made failure of her life. The deceased had appeared in perfect ] good spirits the night before the