Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-03-07
SUPERSTITION
Causes The Suicide of a Beautiful
Young Girl.
Warned by fortuse Teller That Her Life
Would be Unhappy, She Uses
.krife with Fatal Effect.

PHILADELPHIA, March 6.--Pretty Amelia
Mssg, twenty-five years old and unmsr.
ried, cut her throat and killed herself this
afternoon in the kitchen Of her mothers
house, l7S Bridge street, Bridesburg, be.
cause wandering fortune-teller had
prophesied for her long and unlucky ex.
istence with a man she would not love.
The Coroner has been iavi,ec to make al
investigation Of the case and will hold an
inquest over the body tomorrow morn.
ing. Mrs. Mssg the mother o! the young
woman, is in comfortable circumstances,
and keeps a lager-b beer saloon, which is at
tended by her son, John +. Mag. There
are only these three persons in the family,
the elder Mr.. Masg having been dead sew.
eral years.
Amelia, the daughter, Wa extremely
pretty; Of small, plump stature. with
sparkling black eyes, rosy cheeks and Jet
black hair. She was \ socishle, merry, in.
telligent girl, and had never passed
gloomy day in her life until the shadow Of
Of the fortune teller fell across her path.
She was of irreproachable character, and
was member OF the only Germ an church
Strange to say, She never had beau. That
is, although she was n great favorits
among the young men of her acquaint'
ance, she kept them all st an equal dis.
tsnce and kept her heart TO herself She
told several OF her female companions not
many days ago that she WAS ia love with
nobody except herself That was before
she became subject to the spells OF melan-
choly, in one OF which she took her life.
The fortune tellvr's prediction ran a. fol
lows:
The Fortune r,iierrs Prediction.
You were born uniucky," he said 10
Amelia. and her cheek grew white, and
you will be u'luCky until you die. You
will bring evil upon those about you. Per-
Sons to whom you rive presents will die,
aud SO will people who give YOU presents;
rom this cause, you will be unhappy. You
vii! marry one whom you will not love,
aud Won are fst.d TO live with long long
time, until you are eighty years Old
And So in like vein, the old man went on
to tell how the girl would live miserable,
prolonged, unhsppy life. After he had
gone away Amelia seemed deeply impress.
I'd with the truth OF his words. From
that day she wss not herself. She becsme
rtPfined her old air of Ghcerfulness, and
.rGgLtd ss loud rs ever, but the gsyety
p, seed sway quickly like . shadow and
II e relapsed into deep detection. She
biUCGNd 60 much over the terrible name
less future that il IL believed that she at
ls.t lost her rtason. Her brother
thinks she was &C ing under q de-
lusIon when she killed herself. Her
belief in her ill.luck wss greatly increased
when a young man living In the city, who
he'd paid her three visit, sudG":ily stopped
coming TO the house and sea. her no rea
son for bis action. She wss not in love
With this young man, but when he did not
come 10 see her any more she believed III
luck had befallen him and this deepened
her melancholy.
The Bloody Deed.
Shortly after noon today Amelia went
into the kitchen and began 10 wash the
dishes There was lying on the shelf
long, keen blsded butchers knife OF Pc
culIar pattern. on one side blade on the
other saw. No one else was in the room.
Her brother was in the front room behind
the bar. Mrs. Mag had an errsnd into
the kitchen about ! 80 o'clock; there she
saw q sight that caused her 10 scream and
fall faint ting 70 the floor. Amelia was
standing leaning over the sink holding Q
butcher knife in her right hand. She had
cut her throat literally from ear 10 ear aud
the blood was pouring into the sink In
crimson stream. When Mrs. Masg screamed
Amelia fell 10 the floor dead.