Wilmington journal., 1872-08-09
Strange SuIcIde-A Young Lady of
Wheeling DiSappears-AnOthe Vie
tim of Trashy l.Iferafure.

The sensation which is Ctcsting excite
ment i'll Wheeling just now is the sudden
disappearance of Il young lady. The young
lady, whose full mime is Sarah Ann Bed
son, is about seventeen, years of age, the
daughter Of Mr.. George Bctlson, boiler
maker, who works in the Top Mill. Mrs.
Bedson was absent from home on Thurs
day evening nursing a neighbOr's sick
child not returning until about two O'Clock
on Friday morning. During the evening
several young persons came in and sat
some time. Miss Bedson tried to induce
one of these visitors to insert her name
and after it ''died July 1S,'' in the death
column of the family Bible. She not only
asked once, but several times, and even
asked her father to do it. After the visi-
tors had left, Mr.. Bedson and two daugh-
| ters, the youngest about ten, went up
stairs to retire. Sarah Ann put her sister
| to bed and started down stairs; her little
| sister called her lack and asked if she was
! not coming to bed; she replied, ''You and
/ your father can sleep here, will sleep in
| the bottom OF the great Ohio river. My
bed is thousands OF yards long anG hun
dreds Of yards wide"
She then passed down stairs and out of
the front door. Her father, hearing her go
out, thought She was going to the neigh
boris to see where her mother was, or else
| going to sit OH the porch. Since that time
! she has not been seen. When her father
cot up i'll the morning, he looked in Sarah s
| bedroom, and, seeing two in the bed, went
to his work. One in the bed was Mrs.
HrdsOn, who had come home unbcknowI,
| to her husband about 2 O'Clock i'll the
| inorninG. When blr. liedsOn came home
to his breakfast about u clock they missed
their daughter, and the scalch ut once
commenced. Mr. BedsOn remembered
seeing his daughter put Il note iii the Bible
the evening before, and, opening it, the
note was found, of which the following is
n copy: ''Sarah 1cdsOn thinks she will
:. die on the 18th of Juiy, simply because she
is tired ofliving." as za q. ~sa-s -...
Seincs were at once procured and drawn
in the river, but the body could not bt
found. The water being so high, it il
probable that if she did throw herself il
:, the river the body was carried oil. The
parents of Miss Bedson say that she ha!
frequently OF late wished herself dead.
She was subject 10 spells Of stammeting
i, | AT such times her speecll was very imper
feet, and she would become very mucl
depressed about it. AT such times sht
would not unlreq acntly say, 81 wish L wa
at the,botton al tho,riVer; noSOne WOult
marry me; cannot 60 i'll company, an,
there is no pleasure for me.
Miss BettsoII worked at Mrs. ROhan,
drcSs-hiaking -cstablismnent, and ol
Thursday she told the girls in the shol
. that ''ole would be missing soon." Las
ESuidAy she gave away all of the ittl
<trinkets and jewehy that She had, am
! even many of her clothes. 1t is though
that the real cause Of her suicide, for non
| doubG chat She is drowned, came from
| reading trash novels and cheap literature
, She was an invcterate reader of such stuff
, At last accounts the body had not been rC
covered.