The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-11-24
A DOUBLE AND SINGULAR
SUICIDE.

SO40A0G.
Two Young and Beautiful Girls Of
LeWlstoWn, Maine Locked IN
Each Others Arms, Make q
Plunge ever & Raging
Cataract.
The particulars of a sa;cide by two
young ladies Of Lewistown, Maine, are
thus narrated by the journals of that
city;
About L o'clock A. NJ, on Friday,
Sir. Cyrus Cabb, VII lives on Court
street, just ut the Auburn end of the
bridge looking from the rear windows of
his store and two females, apparently
young ladies sitting on the Auburn shore
OF the river, on the very verge Of West
Petch. Dir Cobbs daughter also no
1eed the girls aud thought il very strange
that they should be sitting 50 near dam
geFous place. The more noticeable be-
came the fact when she cav them jump
up aud trip lightly and earsiesaly down
she pTeeipitOus, rocky and slippery banks,
where they removed their outer gar
ments. Miss Cobb then said to her father
that she believed they msditated drOwnS
ing themselves, and so possessed with
t.Iis idea Was she that she resolved 10
sill watch them and see what they were
proposing to do. After removing their
outer garments, including their hats, she
saw the girls return 10 the spot where
they had been sitting and resume their
seats
In few moments, not Far from enc
deFing By, the track being bat two OF
e. r. at
Miss Cobb says that while the train wss
passing that point she saw the girls riss,
each throw her arm around the others
waist, and in this embrace they with APP
parently one consent, Ieaped from the
shore into the fails
The fact became speedily known and
crowds gathered in the vicinity of the
scene of the terrible tragedy,
but nothing could be discovered but the
garments bearing silent and at the same
time sad witness of the tragedy fhe
clothing was distinctly visible TO crowds
who gathered on the new bridge. Policies
man Wash burns, of AubuFn, was che
first TO reach the scene of the melan-H
ehOlly event. He found the clothing on
spur Of the lege, about opposite the
main plunge of West Pitch. Ii was not
rolled up carefully, hut seemed to have
been laid down, each article as it had
been removed from the person The
clothing, which consisted of their hats, a
water proof cloak, shawl and black
oVeF-skirt, with mass Of false hair, was
Of rather indifferent quality, yet appar-
entity tidy. Pinned into the water proof
was brooch of black stone, with me-
dallion face in the center of the stone
the whole set in gold Pinned to the
ribbon of the hat were two ten cent
bills.
An examination of the premises by
Ar. Cobb, who saw the movement OF che
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, est ,blished that the two sui
cides-as they seem to have lsaped from
the point where they FIRST sat down
threw themselves from the fat rock
which forms a platform close to the
waters edge near the foot Of the first de-
scent of West Pitch which consists of
two falls. The first is q slight plunge,
then light fall of hundred feet more
or less; then a great cataract, with at
present fearful fall of water, rolling
dewn into chasfn many feet from the
base of the first fall Here, Just beyond
the base of the first fall, they seem to
have thrown themselves into the river
1t must have been a neadiong leap with
the current They fell and were plunged
into the torrent and out Of the world in
moment
Miss Starbird, of Auburn. and others,
identify the clothing as belonging to
Ada Brown, of Buckfeld, and Anna
Wood, of Hartford, young girls of six
teen and fourteen years of age. Mrs
Starbird says that both girls were at her
home on Hampshire street, Auburn,
Thursday evening, and appeared in ex~
celleut spirits. Anna Wood left No.
Bates Block, on Thursday, where she
had been since Saturday. When she
left she said sine was going to work in a
gentleman family in this city. The
Iandlady paid her eighty-three cents, her
due, when she left Ada Brown has
worked in the Ambrose gin mill, and has
been of late ct No. 2 Bates Corporation.
While Miss Wood was at No 4. Ada
Brown called frequently, and Miss Brown
and herself went out together several
evenings. Miss Brown came here three
weeks since. Her father, John Brown, Il
ia mer residing 10 BlaekfeId Her
landlady says that Miss " God appeared
cheerful when she left the house, though
she had complained OF sickness caused
by eating Il bster. 1t is not certain
where the girls spent the night. A
young man recognized the PIN as the one
be gave one of the girls. Miss Wood
father is dead Her mother is now in
Massachusetts,.