Sacramento Daily Record Union

Some two years ago Louis Egli was thrown from a horse at his home in Scott valley, Siskiyou county, and was so injured that hip disease supervened. Since then he suffered much. He was sent to San Francisco long ago for treatment. Some eight days ago he came to Sacramento. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Holzhouser, of 709 O street, are warm friends of the Egli family. To Louis, who was between 16 and 17 years old, they showed many kind attentions, and comforted him in his affliction. But the youth was despondent, and feared he would never get well, but always be a burden to his family. He visited the Holzhousers often, but roomed at the Helvetia House, on Fifth street.

Yesterday forenoon he called on Mrs. Holzhouser to borrow $5 to pay some dues on some clothing. She told him she did not have it, but would get it for him. She went down town to her husband and asked for it, and Holzhouser readily gave Egli the money and invited him to dine with them. Mrs. Holzhouser returned to her home. Presently Egli also returned, and sat down on the sidewalk with his feet on the street grade below. This was immediately in front of Holzhouser's house, who was then at home. At about 12 o'clock Holzhouser and his wife heard a shot near by, and ran out to see where it came from. They found some children gathered about Egli, who lay on the walk bleeding from a wound in his right temple. He had shot himself with a Bull-dog pistol, which, in all probability, he bought with the money loaned him.

To Mrs. Holzhouser Egli said that he had concluded he ought not to live any longer, that he would never recover, and it was useless to suffer longer. He wished his mother to know that he shot himself coolly and in his right mind, and said, 'Tell her it is all right, and I think it best. I have got enough of life.' Mrs. Holzhouser prepared a bed in the house for the wounded man, but Chief Karcher arriving, concluded to remove him to the station-house, where he died shortly afterwards. He was then removed to the Coroner's office. In his pocket was found a note, which he had probably written during the day, and which read as follows:

OCTOBER 12, 1880.

Brothers and sisters, remember your brother Louis. Mother, remember me. Take me home and bury me alongside of my father. Ah, my mother.

The inquest elicited no other facts than above given.