The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-10-04
SAD ENDING OF YOUNG LIFE.

A NOBLE YOUNG GIRL DESTROYS HERSELF
BECAUSE OF A MOTHERS SHAMEFUL PER-
SOLUTIONS.
At 9:15 o'clock yesterday morning, in q
neatly furnished room up stairs in Mr..
Charles Pfifferling's residence on the south
side of Seventh street near Commercial av-
enue, Mary Baugh, good-looking young
girl of seventeen, shot herself with an DID,
rusty, four barreled, revolving pistol, Of
about 80 calibre, the ball entering the right
temple, lodging in the lett side Of
the face and causing immediate death.
A little six year-old sister was the
only eyewitness to the rash act but the
report was heard by others in the house,
who rushed up stairs under various impress
sions, and found the poor victim lying in
her bed, still, cold and covered with blood,
| her hands crossed over her breast, and the
revolver with one barrel empty, lying
across her knees.
She was q necc 70 Mr..
Charles Pfifferling, to whom she came
aLJ.. year and a half ago in order to
escape from the bad influences of her
mother, who, she said, was seeking to in
duce her to depart from the path Of virtue.
Ever since she came to her uncle's home
she proved herself to be noble, industri-
Gus young girl, whose only aim in life
seemed to be to care for and educate her
little sister, and to make for herself com.
Portable living by honest and constant toll
with the needle and sewing machine.
She was constantly employed and highly
respected for her gentle disposition, intelli-
gencc and industry, by nearly all the
families in the immediate nelghborhood in
which she lived and was also very popular
among the young people. But she was not
permitted to lead her life in peace, Her
mother, who occupies apartments in a dis
reputable house on Ohio levee, refused to
part with her so easily. Herself wallow-
ing in the deepest ooze Of moral degreda-
ton for years, she is, like many other peo-
pie of both sexes, incapable Of conceiving
Of a character against which the poisoned
darts Of wicked cunning are powerless.
She still believed that she could drag her
daughter into the same cesspool with her
self if she tried the rightcxpedients. Hence
she was persistent in her
efforts to induce Mary to come back to her.
She wrote letters, persuading at first then
threatening; she sought and found opportu-
mites to see the young girl in the street.
or at Mr. Pfferling's home, when the latter
was out, knowing that she dared not come
when he was in. These interviews, vainly
sought to be avoided by the young girl,
always ended in positive, indignant re-
fusal on the part of Mary to leave the home
of her kind uncle. At last on the Sd Of
May, this year, the srheming mother tried
another, and, what she believed TO be, an
irresistible, expedicnt to accomplish her
vile purpose. The castle of chastity which |
she had in vain beseged with prayers and
threats, was now attacked with a more
formidable weapon. She took ninety dol
lars Of the money which the girl had
herself earned and given to her, and de-
posted 1t in the Enterprise savings bank to
Mary's credit She then gave the bank
book to Mary on condition that she Mary
would come home and live with her. Mary
took the book, determined to use the money
in supporting and educating her little sister
Emma, who was still living with her
mother; but still refused to return to her
mothers house. Mrs. Baugh now became
angry. Seeing that her last and her best
effort had failed in its purpose, she was
willing to give up but she wanted the
money back, and, with the view of obtain.