The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-04-13

Carrie Headershot, Q Young Womas,
Takes her Life Because Of
Unrequited Love.

taxes ue6 Lie UeCouSe u
Unfequited Love.
She Writes hin she ''Lsvss Hin Better rhaa
Life."
On Monday morning about ii
O'Clock Coroner Guckes received al
message from Huntingburg callingI
him there to hold an inquest over q
young woman who had just died at
Mr.. Jack Goodman's. He went
over and found Miss Carrie Hender-
shot dead in her room, and by herl
an ource bottle OF laudanum, pur-
chased at Miller's drug store the
Saturday previous, CT which she
had taken about half during Sun
day night. She was rather come
|ly looking blonde, about 20 or 30
years old, 5 #. 6 inches tall, and
las lbs. weight, and was clothed in
white night gown.
She was living at Goodman's as a
servant girl, and was respected by
them and we'll liked. On Sunday
|she did her work as usual, and no
suspicion Of any thing wrong could
be drawn from her manner. Mon
day morning she was called to pre-
pare breakfast, but did not answer.
After a second and third call her
room was entered and she wasfound
unconscious, and the laudanun be-
side the bed. She left two letters
for her lover, Mr.. James Taylor,
which are both heart yearning let
tiers, and told of her intention to
kill herself for love Of him. She
has a mother and two sisters living
lin Perry county, and three brothers
and sister in Tennessee. As will
he seen the first letter is dated Apr.
lI3d, and is as follows:
j HUNTINGBURG, Apr. 3, 1900.
! Well, Jim, / have been running
slto the Office every train, but dom,
d get that letter you said you would
/. write me. I told you that you
. wouldn't write when you said you
I would. / would like to know how
Kilt is you couldn't write on Sunday
iii would like to know what yol
: had to do SO urging you couldn',
I write. 1t makes no difference how
I bad | want to tell you anything
: you can't write to me- SO l car
g know what to do. l heard abou
: you being at Ferdinand yesterday
you and old Whitten. If yot
don't write to me when you say
you will, and don't pay more at
8 tention to me than you do, l am 60
ling to kill myself, and then 20,
!. can think Of what you have caused
/ waut you to come over as sool
as you get this. l have some bust
: ness with you. It is go strange,
: Jim, as good as | am to you, ant
much as | think of yoI, that yo'
even can't write to me when yo'
say you will. / wouldn't treat yov
4 that way. | am sick-how are yor
! by this time? are you getting better
{ Gertie wants me to stay with he
= all summer, and | will stay if yol
4 will come over, and me andyou Cal
! make a bargain, and if you don
J come / will 60 away before long, 8
Wifi you want me to stay, come
!. once want you to take me to KY
n ana. Jacks is going to move mex
' vlweek, so come at once, and don
. ! bring none of them Whittens wit
Z you, my darling, sweet man. ar
!. going crazy shure. | can't live thi
i way, and don't expect to long, TO
: you never tell me the truth any more
n you always say you will write an
!. never do so. Love, come at once
. If you don't l will 60 to some plac
,f|out Of this world. From
i CARRIE HENDERSON
q Your true love
ri She waited till Sunday, got n
/ letter from Taylor, and then wrote
e, bidding him goodby, as follows:
I, HUNTINGBURd, Apr. 5, 19O(
el Dear Jim, my love, | love yol
leland tonight expect to pass away
e.for l know you don't love me and
srl don't want to live no longer to b
lin your way. You told me whe
|you was here that you would writ
l-|so could get letter last Monda
d and have been to the postoffic
J |every day this week.
III So l will put myself out Of you
d way, for l know you could write
me. If you think more Of the foil
where you are staying l won't
ls where can hear about 1t. So, da
|e ling, l am going to die, loving yc
1t better than I do myself. II yc
D. wish come and look on me when
in lamldead, and think Of what W
alcaused, for / have no desire to Ii