The Centre reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, 1871-11-24
A Double Suicide.

A Lewistown (Maine) paper says tha
Mr.. Cobb saw two young ladies sitting
on the Auburn shore Of the river, OF
the very verge Of West Pitch Mr.
Cohb's daughter also noticed thc girls
and thought II very strange tina
they should be sitting so near th,
very dangerous place. The moro notice
able became the fact when he saw then
jump up and trip lightly and oareleSsll
down the precipitous. rocky, and slip
perry bank, where they removed thoi
outer garments. Miss Cobb then said tS
her father that she believed they me,htat
ed drowning themselves, and So possesse,
with this idea was she that she resolve,
to still watch them and see what they
were proposing 30 do, After removing
their outer garments, including theii
hats, she saw the girls return 20 the spo
where they had been sitting and resum,
/ their seats. Ia few minutes, not IA
from | O'Clock, the train from Bangol
came laundering by, the track bcinl
about 200 or 500 feet from where they
sat Miss Cobb says that while th,
train was passing that point she saw tn,
4 girls rise. each throw her arms arount
I the others waist. and in this embnc'
I they, with apparently one consent, leap
ed from the shore into the falls, Mis-
Cobb turned 10 her father, Father
they have jumped together into th,
/ falls. Me-, Cobb, who moment befur,
had seen them sitting ON the shore
looked at once out of the window. com,
manding a fun view of the scene. Ne
girls were 10 be seen-nothing bat the
garments they had left ON the shore.
The facts speedily became known, and
crowds gathered in the vicinity of the
scene of the terrible tragedy, bat moth
ing could be seen hut the garments,
bearing silent and at the same time sad
witness OF the tragedy.
An examination by Mr. Cobb, who
saw the movements of the girls, and by
one or two other gentlemen, who noticed
where the sat, but did not happen 10 see
them when they took the fatal leap, es.
tahlished that the two suicides-as they
seemed 10 have leaped from the point
where they first sat down-threw them
selves from the flat rock which forms a
level platform close to the waters edge,
near the foot OF the first descent OF West
Pitch, which, as everybody hereabouts
knows, consists of two falls. The first
Is u slight plunge upon a table-roek
then light fall of hundred feet, more
or less then a great cataract, with, at
present, a fearful fall OF water, rolling
down into "A chasm many feet from the
base OF the first fall. Here, Just beyond
the base of the first fall, they seem 20
have thrown themselves into the river.
Miss Cobb saw them no more. Late in
the afternoon, Miss Starhird, from Au-
burn, and others. identified the clothing
left by the suicides ON the West Pitch
stone as belonging 10 Ada Brown Of
Buckfield, and Anna Wood Of Hartford,
Young girls Ii and l6 wears Of age
Miss Browns eldest sister has been at
work in the city, aud is frantic with
grief at the sad tragedy. She left IN the
afternoon to carry the sad news 10 her
parents. We understand both the Wood
and Brown girls were at Ada Browns
room. on the Bates Corporation, Thurs
day night, reaching there ut ten p. IA.
Friday morning the elder sister of Ada
carried Ada's breakfast TO her room,
where both the girls then we're. She
left Ada with the understanding that
she would be in the mill at ~ o'clock.
Ada did not 90 into the mill as promis.
ed. As she did not make her appear
ance st dinner, the elder sister became
alarmed, and going ont learned of the
suicide OF two girls, whom she at once
surmised might be Ada and Miss Wood
A party Of lumbermen. in batteaux,
dragged the river for the bodies Friday
afternoon. but discovered no traces Of
them. The cause of the sad suicide is
only conjectured as being the " old
story" but viii lie more definitely known
when there shall be an inquest over the
bodies on their discovery.