Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-12-17
Sunnosed 10 Have Been suicide.

Morris at Waverly Thursday evening,
caused by that person being run over
by an Ohio River passenger train, the
parkersburg Journal says:
Miss Morris deliberately sutcided at
Waverly, this county, by walking on
tAe track of the Ohio River railroad
as train was approaching The train
was bound south, due here at S:2O
The woman died in few minutes af-
ter being struck. ea.li
Deceased was the daughter of par-,
ents who have lived apart for some
time. They are people in poor finan-
claI circumstances and lived in sep
arate little cabins on the same farm.
Yesterday the young woman, after
visit with her parents, had started for
Marietta, where for many years she
had been employed as a domestic.
The parents of the girl live at Schultz
postoffice, ten miles from Waverly, and
she walked the entire distance to
Waverly on her way back to 4darletta.
She was not at her home as long as
she intended being. 1t is a reasonable
supposition that something of a de-
cidedly troubling nature occurred at
her home Probably she did not know
of the domestic trouble at her home,
and X may have prompted her to take
| her l.Ie.
Theknown circumstances of the sui
eide are that she had eaten supper at
the home of Louis Bradford, at Waver-
ly, where she showed that her spirits
were depressed. She said that she was
going to the depot and started north
ward in that direction. Instead of go
ing TO the depot she went southwark,
to where the county road crosses the
track There she stood on a small EN-
bankment, where the engineer of the
approaching train could see her, and
when the whistle blew, she walked
slowly to the track and then followed
it in Iue center, in the same direction
the train was coming. The train WAS
going at good rate and AL. Lancaster,
the engineer, reversed his engine, put
on the air and signaled loud and long
wiuh the whistle. The suicide bent
ner head, folded her arms and waited
for death, calmly walking along the
track
The inevitable occurred; the train
was too close to her to be stopped and
she was struck by the engine and hurl-
ed twenty feet to the river side of the
track.
Col. Partridge, travelling auditor of
| the road, was the first person to
reach the girl. The continued lond
whistling fthe engine had attracted
the attention of all the passengers on
Jhe train, who knew that something
extraordinary had happened, and there
was distinct jar through the train
when the girl was struck, as the trains
speed had been greatly lessened.
When Col Partridge raised the girls
head, the vital spark had not fed, but
sne did not speak, When she was
thrown to the ground her forehead
struck a sharp stone, which perforated
the skull. This injury was the imme-
diate cause. of DEATH 5 al
DIR Keever, county coroner, decided
that no inquest would be necessary,
because the circumstances of the dealh
had no element OF mystery, and it lis
| net the province of an inquest to in
quire into causes for fact, when the
fact itself is firmly established.
Her savings were sent to her parents
Her greatest desire seemed to be for
their welfare. Going home to find
home no more; her father and mother
separated; and making it anything
out a pleasant homecoming for her.
There was, really, little brightness and
cheer in her life, and that little was
extinguished by the violent quarrel
which led to her parents separating.
Her love of home being her one
ideal, it is not improbable that here
lies the cause for her desire for self
destruction.