Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-11-15
NfSCELLANE US.
TWO WOMEN COMNIT SUICIDE BY
JUMPING INTO A CATARACT.

About ll:30 clock A. N, Friday, Mr.
CYRUS Cobb, who lives on Court strect.
ju-t a. tn. Auburn end of the bridge,
looking from the rear windows of his
store and house, saw two females, appa-
rently young ladies. sitting on the Au
burn shore Of the river, on the very
verge of West Pitch. Mr. Cobb's daugh
ter also noticed the girls. and thought it
very strange that they should be sitting
so near very dangerous place. The
more noticeable became tie fact, when
she saw ihem jump up aud trip lightly
and carlessly down the precipi.ous.
rocky and slippery bank, where they re-
moved their outer garm ants Miss Cobb
then sail to her father that she believed
they meditatcd drowning themselves, and
70 possessed will, this idea was she that
she resoled to still watch them and see
what they we're 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 moments, not far from one
o'clock. the train from Bangor came thun-
dering by, the track being bu: two or
a. e., g.
Mis- Cobb says that while the train was
passing that point she saw the girls rise,
each throw her arms aTou d the Others
waist, and II this embrace they. appa-
rently with ore consent, leaped from the
shore into the falls
The fact spseGily became known, and
crowds gathered in the vicinity of the
terrible tragedy; but nothing could be
discovered but the garments, bearing
sil-ut and at the same time sad witness
ot the tragedy The clothing was DIS
the Iy visible 10 crowds who gathered
IN hc uew bridge. Policeman Wash
/ rnc, of Auburn was the first 10 reach
the scfne of the melancholy event.
lie found the clothing on a spur of the
ledgc, about opposite the main plunge OF
Wet Pitch. 1t was no, rolled up care
f.iIy, bu: seemed to have been laid down,
each article As il had been removed from
the person. The clothing. which con
sisted of their hats, a waterproof CLOAK,
"A shawl and black overrkirt, with a
mass Of false hair, was of rather indiffer-
cnt quality, yet apl arenIly tidy. Pin
ma into the water proof cloak was a
brooch of some black stone, with a me
dallion face in white in the centre of tie
;tone-ibe whole set in gold. Pinned
in the ribbon of tie hat were two ten
cent ills
An examination of the premises by
Mr. Cobb who saw The movements of
the girls. and by o,e or two gentlemen
" 10 noticed whcrr they sat bu, did not
happen to see thpin when they took thc
fatal leap. established that the two sui
cidcs-as they seemed to have leaped
from the point where they first sat down
threw themselves from the haG rock
which FIRMS a platform close to the wa
ier's edge, ne the foot of the fret de-
scent of Nest Pitch, which consists OF
two falls. The first is slight plunge
upo, table rock then light fall for a
hundred feet, more or less then a great
cataract, with, at present. fearful fall OF
water, rolling down into charm many
feet from the base of the first fall. Here,
just beyond the base Of the first fall
they seem, d to have thrown themselves
into the river. 1t must have been
headlong leap with the current. They
fell and were plunged into the torrent
and out of the world in a moment
Miss Starbird of Auburn. and others.
identify the clothing as belonging to
Ada Brown. of Buck6eld. aud Anna
Wood, of Hartford, young girls sixteen
and fourteen years Of age. Miss Star
bird says that both girls were at her
home on Hampshire street. Auburn
Thursday evening, aud appeared in ex
ceilent spirits. Anna Wood lett No. 4
Bates block. on Thursday, where she
had been since Tu sday. When she
left she SAID she was going to wo.k in
gentleman family in this city. The
landlady paid her SO cents. her due.
when sbe left, Ada Brown has worked
in Androscogsin Mill and has been Of
late at No. Bates Corporation. While
Miss Wood was at No 4. Ada Brown
called frequently, and Miss Brown and
herself went ont together several even
ings Mrs Brown came here three weeks
since. Her father. John Brown. is a far
mer, residing in Buckf IL
Her landlady says that Miss Wool ap-
peared cheerful when sbe left the house.
though she had complained Of sickness
caused by eating lobster. 1t is not Ger
tain where the girl spent the night. A
young man recognized the pin as the one
he gave to one of the girls. Ira Foster
says be saw both on the street at clock
this morning. Miss Browns Oldest sis.
ter has been at work in the city, and is
frantic with grief at the sad tragedy-I