The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-06-13
A MIgniegT MYSTERY.
The Sudden Plunge OF an Unknown
Unfortunate !ato the Icy Em-
braces of The hlurky
Missouri.
a Fitting Phantom, a Dread Reality,
and the Succeeding Suicide.
An EpitsPh Written in Water by The
Pen of Relentless Fate.
\ r NTAL LEAP.

rig Ih,> morning, ssOHly before one
o Iocn, al tE q hour wH-i gr-.v y i.u-
yawn, aud wh-n gn-stS conn prsu rom
their graves to walk, there rr'urr-i one ofthe
sITuug.->f, most uuaccpunttDle md mysterI-
Gus suicides winch has taken piac.- IA this
city tor many = long year. although time may
serve 70 iift th. Veil Of mg>tet y which II
cninpssS The act, and make known Inc
ctu-t which led L. the terrible deed. At the
hour above men lOned. g. tao representa-
IV-> OF tHE IIgES were pE~sIn- down Dsis-
ware street toward The J.Isg, they deserted
in
THEtSvELDPI>G DARKNESS
the figure ot n woman, clos heg ~ whit -a.-
ment, ana, - near a. they could ascertain
from tn- h tSty giiIup>e OI her, long ami How
ing, something Ike a nigh dress, emerge
from the altey leading into Delaware street
from the block on the south side OF that thor
ousniare, between Nam and Second streets,
aud glide eastward toward the river Al
though the night was very dark, and the
hour an unserInly one
FOR ANY WOMAN
TO be abroad uneScorted, the two TIMES rep
r, sent4tIy,s, thought nothing PARTICULARLY
of the matieF, - the locality l. Que PECULIAR
~ infested with street walkers and women
oi the l"Ner class who frequent the houses
ut prostitution and assignatiOu on Main
street. IL i, la fact, nothing unusual -
meet a woman IN that vicinity at
Any HOUR IN THE NIGHT,
aud Therefore, as said before, the fact that
unusual suspicion, and no thought of her IN
tenIIOu ever entered the heads Of the news
gatherers a. they plunged along in the dark
ness toward the Office. When the woman
reached Main street she crossed and cOatiu-
utd dOwnwa;d
TOWARD THE LEVEE,
and when nearly at the end of The bill boards
which ornament that corner, quiclIened her
pace INTO run. Instead of turning south
at the corner aud fOI oSlns the sid walk lead
log To the hou>,s fronting the IeVer. Size kept
straight onward, speeding rapidly, ami WAS
not until then, as she He'd past the narrow
gsuge freight house and toward the dark aud
turbld river,wn fierce-rolling waters gept
mutteringly downward to meet the great
Father of Waters, that the idea sliced upon
the watchers that
HER ISTESTIoN WAS SUICIDE.
IL was "A fit night for such an act. The dark
ness WAS a. thick as a blanket AMI aim st aS
impeneirable to the eye,ight, and a. the Two
senSatioB-seekeis rapidly follow, j tae de>-
maintaining their footing. Ja>t as they
crussed the railroad track they
HEARD \ PIERCING sHRIsE,
Immediately followed by Il plunge into the
cold embrace Of tine raging waters, and when
the two purSurers reached the river they
heard naught but the duh surge of the eddy
ing waves as they spent themselves upon the
shore. Nothing could be found upon the
TO teli the tale of the lost one who, tired ol
lifeis troubles and never ending woes had
sought eternal repose in
THE ICY ARMS
of kindly death. For fully half an hour the
seekers searched up and down the shore,
but the effort Ia discover any trace of the
missing was iruiile>S. Inquiries Instituted AT
various places IN The vicinity failed 10 elicit
any information, as no one answering 10 the
description OF the suicide had been seen, nor
had anyone living in that neighboThoOd
sirayed away. IL was, most assurediy, not
one OF the demi monde living in the lower
part of the city where women of that charac-
| Ter most congregate, who had thus recll-
lesSly hurled herself unbidden from This
world of ours TO the great unknown beyond
murky SiyX; whoever she was, her epitaph
| is written in water. and may never be traced
| out; her history Is among the records Of the
past which the eye of man may never see
HER GRAVE Is ONE
| which no mortal has digged the cold, drcar
waters of the dark Missouri alone chant her
r,quium, while In a short time the readers oi
this, they ponder over ibis mystery oi
| midnight, Will suffer it 10 pass from memory
like tne Hitting phantom Of a CHASTITY dream.