The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-02-07

arms around Mrs. Daily, weeping
violently and saying she was not COM
ing back any more. Her father gently
rebuked her for leaving Mrs. Daily
without sufficient notice, and the girl
then broke out afresh weeping,
and said that she could not
tell it to Mrs. Daily. because she and
Judge Daily and all the family had
treated her with all possible kindness.
Upon her return home her family
Immediately detected a remarkable
and sorrowful change in Mina's looks
and Gemeanor. She seemed greatly de-
pressed. Her mother begged her to
say what allied her, but she gave no
answer.
Saturday morning, proceeding
the night of her death,
she took bucket from
one of the reasons, and told her
mother she was going to a spring
short distance from the house, to get
water. "What if l
SHOULD DROWN MYSELF!
she laughingly asked. Mrs. Lane
took the remark as a mere jest and
said: 81 wouldn't jump in if ] were
you. for you might spoil the water"
Subsequent events showed that the
girl was already brooding upon self
destruction.
She stood quite awhile at the
waters edge and seemed to
one who saw her, to
he in a kind Of revery. She looked
all about her and occasionally glanced
at the sky. She was, doubtless,
weighing most carefully the con-
templated deed, even then. Perhaps
she was wavering. Hamlet-like, she
was hesitating and doubling and
dreaming at deaths door.
Shortly after supper she retired to
a room alone, which was something
unusual, as, when at home, she had
always slept with her mother or sis
ter.
She locked the door securely, dis
robed herself, excepting her sleeping
gown, and carefully placed her clothes
on chair. What time she swallowed
the fatal poison, no one can KNOW.
Early the next morning some men,
Der of the family called her TO break
fast, but there was no response. The
door was opened from the outside and
she was living in her bed, life wholly
extinct. Two small bottles were picked
up beside the bed. One WAS partly
filled with carbolic acid, bore the
label of Fleischman's drug store in this
city. and was marked poison. The
other contained tincture of opium or
laudanum, and bore the label of
FIetcher's drug store in this city. Her
face was slightly notified by the et-
fects of the poisons, and her lips
were considerably scared where
the carbolic acid had touched them.
Death doubtless ensued within few
moments. She left no last message of
any kind.
A BAzoo representative called at
Fleischman's this morning and had
an interview with Fred j. OFT, head
clerk of the establishment
Il remember" said he. selling a
quarters worth of carbolie acid to Miss
Lane one day last week. She told
me she that wished 10 Use it to
cure her sore threat. Her
manner was natural and did not
arouse my suspicion. particularly, and
vet. to fully guard her, made known
its deadly effect, and gave her explicit
instructions how Ia Use il in gargling
her throat
Mr.. Fletcher could not remember
of having sold any laudanum to Miss
Lane, Though he thought it probable
that she obtained it at his drug store.
Yesterday, soon after Judge Daily
heard OF the suicide. Mn. Daily, bv
mere chance, found a bottle of ear
bolic acil hidden away ON Il shelf in
the bathroom. Nina had evidently
left il there.
\ BAzoo representative also had
an interview this morning with Mr..
Merritt Sterling, carpenter en-
pioyed in the Missouri Pacific shops
here. and uncle of the dead girl. He
was Oh his way to Beaman.
..Icau't account formy nieces action.
said he. ''She was one of the best and
purest of women, and | was heartily
devoted to her. | often visited her
and spent evenings with her. She told
me about her engagement TO Lowrey,
and asked my advice in the matter.
There were one or two objections she
had to her lover, and she broke off
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