Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-07-08
A FLOATING BOTTLE
And the Mysterious Note It Contained
Are the Only
CLEW TO THE FATE THAT CANE TO
Mrs. Lucy Matheny-Shs Lsf Home 70 Visit Rsls'
tyes in june But She Has Not Yet Reached
Thsm-A Well COrkd Bottle With
Note From Her.
SpeeiaL 7tlemam % ~ R.ql.ter.

Special Ttlfordn 70 ne Rsoisfer.
CHARLESTON, w, VA, July The
people OF Charleston are considerably /.
worked up over the discovery OF what y
supposed TO be the suicide 0i Mrs. LUuy
Matheny, the wife OF Lon Matheny, n
carpenter OF Poca, small village near
here on the Kanawha g. Michigan rad
road. who appears 10 have committed,
suicide on the 4th OF June by jumping
from the iron bridge which spans tho
Kanawha at this place, and tho facts
concerning which have just come To
light.
Mrs. Matheny left her home, and was
supposed to have gone 70 visit her
father, c. n. Forbes, at Montgomery,
Fayette county. She arrived In this
city on the Kanawha and Michigan
train, left here at one o'clock and
crossed the Kanawha river bridge for
brief visit TO her grandfather, Wm.s
X. Forbes, on the South Side. She lefv
his house to take the Fast Flying Vir-.
glnian going out On the Chesapeake and
ohio, due az 1890 a. M, for Mont /.
gomery.
Since that time nothing has been
heard from her except that on Junoe
"a, an ordinary pint flask bottle was
found floating in the Ohio river opposite
New New Richmond, g., by Clarence
Davis, we'll know among the rigcrmen
here, but who Is now on the stedner
"New Richmond at that place. He
noticed that the bottle contained noto
and fshed IL out OF the water.
II was corked so tightly that he was
L. 4. IA - .NNN - .r.NN
which consisted OF leaf from an ordi-,
nary pocket note book upon which wasl
written the following:
"CnARLEsroN, w. VA. July e.
am tired OF living and hope who
ever finds this will be 30 kind as 10.
write 10 mother that have committed1
snicIde-by jumping In the Kanawha<
River"
Her address is Mrs. ID. A. Forbes.4
Montgomery, Fayette County, w. Va.s
"Good bye. - Lucy Manthery."
II Is said that man named Miller, off
~. Pleasant, got aboard the train with
Mrs Manthery, but whether or not be
had anything 10 do with her Mysterious
Disappearance Is unknown.
Ed. O'Keefe, night collector on the
Kanawha river bridge. says that Abopsf
the date mentioned, about midnigi1tI he
heard splash as though some,
heavy object had fallen from
the bridge TO the water.
He thinks 1t must have BEEN
some where this side OF the middle OF
the bridge. but as he saw no one. upon
looking he supposed IL matter OF no1
Importance, and iiescaped his memorys
until II was revived by the report or
supposed drowning OF Mrs. MatheDy.
She was married eight years ago and
II is said that her relations have not
been as pleasant a. they might have
been, and that she had slight difficulty
with her husband shortly before she left
home. When last seen she wore black
dress and large black hat. She was
five feet eight inches In height, had a
dark complexion, black hair and
dark eyes and wore four false front
teeth. She was enciente and expected
TO again 70 become a mother in Septem-
Der, as she told her cousins wife, out
her Immediate family say In July,