The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-11-18
Two Girls Commit Suicide.

THEY EMBRACE EACH OTHER AND
JUMP INTO THE FALLS AT LEW
ISTON, MAINE. .. BE-. I-I
LFrom the Lewiston, tMe.) Journal Nov. 4.
About 11:3O o'clock p. M. to-
day, Mr.. Cyrus Cobb, who lives
on Court street, just at the Au-
burn end of the bridge, looking
from the rear windows of his
store and house, saw two females,
apparently young ladies, sitting
on the Auburn shore of the river,
on the very verge of West Pitch.
Mr.. Cobb's daughter also noticed
the girls, and thought it very
strange that they should be sit
ting SO near very dangerous
place. The more noticeable be-
came the fact, when she saw
them jump up and trip lightly
and carelessly down the precipi-
tous, rocky, and slippery bank,
where they removed their outer
garments. Miss Cobb then said
to her father that she believed
they meditated drowning them
selves, and SO possessed with this
idea was she that she resolved to
still watch them and see what
they were proposing to do. AT
ter removing their outer gar
ments, including their hats, she
saw the girls return to the spot
where they had been sitting and
resume their seats. l-
In a few moments, not far
from 1 O'Clock, the train from
Bangor came laundering by, the
track but two or three hundred
feet from where they sat. Miss
Cobb says that while the train
was passing that point she saw
the girls rise, each throw her
arm around the others waist,
and in this embrace they, with
apparently one consent, leaped
from the shore into the falls.
Miss Cobb turned to her father
"Father, they have jumped to-
gether into the falls!'' Mr..
Cobb, who Il moment before had
seen them sitting on the shore,
looked at once out of the window,
commanding full view of the
scene. No girls were to be seen
nothing but the garments they
had left on the shore.
The fact speedily became
known and crowds gathered in the
vicinity Of the scene Of the ter
rible tragedy, but nothing could
be discovered but the garments,
bearing silent, and at the same
time sad, witness of the tragedy.
The clothing was distinctly visi-
bic to crowds who gathered on
the new bridge. Policeman Wash
burne Of Auburn was the first to
reach the scene of the melan-
choly event. He found the cloth
ing on z spur of the ledge, about
Opposite the main plunge Of the
West Pitch. It was not rolled
up carefully, but seemed to have
been laid down, each article as it
had been removed from the per-
son. The clothing, which con-
sisted of their hats, Il waterproof
cloak, Il shawl, and a black over
skirt, with q mass of false hair,
was Of rather Indifferent quality,
vet apparently tidy. 1t was
taken in charge by Officer Wash
burne, and left at Mayor Little
fields Office for Identification.
Pinned into the waterproof was a
brooch of some black stone, with
a medallion face in white in the
center of the stonc-the whole
set in gold. Pinned to the rib
bon of the hat were two ten
cent bills.
An examination of the premises
by Mr.. Cobb, who saw the move
ments Of the girls, and by one or
two gentlemen, who noticed
where they sat, but did not hap
pen to see them when they took
the fatal leap, established that
the two sr1icides-as they seem
to have leaped from the point
where they first sat down-threw
themselves from the fiat rock
which forms 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 Il slight
plunge upon a table rock, then a
light fall for a hundred feet,
moro or less then a great cata-
ract, with, at present, a fearful
fall of water, rolling down a
chasm, many feet from the base
of the first fall. Here, just be-
Nond the base of the first fall,