Connecticut western news., 1871-11-17
A Double Suicide.

A Lewistown (AIaine1 paper says that MT. Cobb saw two young ladies sitting on the Auburn shore of the river, on the very verge of West Pitch. MT. Cobb's daughter also noticed the girls, and thought it very strange that they should be sitting so near the very dangerous place. The more notice able became the fact when he saw them jump up and trip lightly and carelessly down the precipitous, rocky, and slip pery bank, where they removed their outer garments. Miss Cobb then said to her father that she believed they medltat- ed drowning themselves, and so possessed with this idea was she that she resolved to still watch them and see what they were-proposing to do. After removing their outer garments, including their hats, she saw the girls return to the spot where they had been sitting and resume their seats. In few minutes, not far from 1 o'clock, the train from Bangor came laundering by, the track being about 200 or 300 feet from where they sat. Miss Cobb says that while the train was passing that point she saw the girls rise, each throw her arms around the others waist, and in this embrace they, with apparently one consent, leap, ed from the shore into the falls. Miss Cobb turned to her father, "Father they have jumped together. into the falls' Mr. Cobb, who moment before had seen them sitting on the shore looked at once out of the window, com handing full view of the scene. Nc girls were to be seen-nothing but the garments they had left on the shore. The facts speedily became known, ano crowds gathered in the vicinity of the scene of the terrible tragedy, but noth- ing could be seen but the garments bearing silent and at the same time sac witness of the tragedy.
 An examination by MT. Cobb, who saw the movements of the girls, and by one or two other gentlemen, who noticed where the sat, but did not happen te SCI them when they took the fatal leap, es abolished that the two suicides-as they seemed to have leaped from the poin where they first sat down-threw them selves from the fat rock which forms level platform close to the waters edge near the foot of the first descent of Wes Pitch, which, as everybody hereabout knows, consists of two falls. The frs is slight plunge upon table-rock
 then light fall of hundred feet, more or less then great cataract, with, 8 present, fearful fall of water, rolling down into chasm many feet from tn, base of the first fall. Here, just beyond the base of the first fall, they seem t. have thrown themselves into the river Miss Cobb saw them no more. Late il the afternoon, Miss Starbird, from Au burn, and.others, identified the clothing left by the suicides on the West Pitcl stone as belonging to Ada Brown O Buckfeld, and Anna Wood of Hartford young girls IA and 16 years of age Miss Browns eldest sister has been a work in the city, and is frantic witt grief at the sad tragedy. She left in th' afternoon to carry the sad news to he parents. We understand both the Wood and Brown girls were at Ada Brown room, on the Bates Corporation, Thurs day night, reaching there at ten p. m Friday morning the elder sister of Ad; carried Ada's breakfast to her room where both the girls tben were. Sht left Ada with the understanding tha Ada did not go into the mill as promis ed. As she did not make her appear ance st dinner, the elder sister became alarmed, and going out learned of th' suicide of two girls, whom she at onc' surmised might,be Ada and Miss Wood A party of lumbermen, in batteaux dragged the river for the bodies Frida. afternoon, but discovered no traces o them. The cause of the sad suicide only conjectured as being the ol story" but will be more definitely know when there shall be an inquest over th bodies on their discovery.