H. C. Robinson (ca. 1841-1876)

ROBINSON

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 2/19/2012 at 10:30:53

From Nevada Representative July 12, 1876

The State Register of Sunday last gives the following particulars of a suicide in Boone on Saturday last:

"We obtain the particulars of a case of suicide that occurred in Boone on the Northwestern road yesterday. The victim of the attempt upon his own life was young man by the name of H. C. Robinson, whose home is in Malvern, Mills county. He reached Boone Friday night, and put up at the Lincoln House. In the morning he came down stairs, paid his bill, and asked how long it would be before the train formed that its time was 2 o'clock, he sat down a while and about 11 o'clock asked for a key to go up to his room again. He went up stairs and in a few minutes the report of a pistol was heard. Rushing up stairs the clerk found young Robinson lying stretched out upon the floor with a revolver in his hand. He was still alive though he was shot in the head, the ball entering in the center of the forehead and passing out through the crown of his head. It was a ghastly sight as his brains protruded from the wound.

The following note ws found on the table in the room:
Good-bye, friends, one and all. The public can learn through the press the cause of my death. My dying request is that my body be buried in Boone, as I can not think of letting my parents see my mutilated body.
H. C. ROBINSON
Malvern, Mills county.

No cause is known for the commission of the act. He was a rather tall man and nice looking; about thirty five years of age. At two o'clock yesterday he was still alive, but the doctors said he could not live."