The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-07-18
A CHICAGO TRAGEDY.
Pitiful End Of Three Sisters WI,
Loved Each Other.
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The blinds We're drawn yesfer5,-
a little cottage in Fulton street. IN
key was turned In d quaint old ni,-
covers were quietly spread over ~
faded 0aguerreOtypes and piacs- 1
ancient furniture and the outer a.,
were closed and barred The o,r-s.s
had gone away and they VIII NOT rss
/ their little home any more.
A few years ago three maiden sfs,
moved into the cottage and closed N
door behind them. Occasionally ~ ~
nelghbOrs caught glimpses If tbs-1'
and that was all They knew ~
names, they saw one so quickly eart
morning 10 a corner grocery ana nm
chase supplies for the day IN r,
evening they saw them sitting On n.
back porch or pacing the walk within
Z their own yard, ana always the 1hr.-
maiden sisters were dressed in bright
Old-fashiOned costumes.
The neighbOrs called them the tI.ra.
old maids. and tod the truth whe5
they did.
Yesterday afternoon Miss Ssrsl
Stanton was escorted into tho ins7rs
court at the detention lOsUitaL Sbs
( wore a gown that was as clean sr5
neat as could be. 1t vas of layende-
silk, Enthusiastically lowered. hu faded
Her black hair was brushed tightly
back from her forehead ana two biz
curls waved down beside he. ears. h
! her hand was a fan Of satin. hand
/ painted and proud of its years. The
] settings were fit for a picture of CO.
/ lOnial days, and the face Of the VIC.
man was its central figure.
/ Where are your sisters softly
/ asked Dr. Hunter, as Miss Sarah
/ Stanton settled back in the big chain
They have just moved away ar
/ swered Miss Stanton, in a far away
voice They are living in heaven
/ Until last Thursday Miss Sarah had
/ not known in all her fOrty-se ven yes1s
/ what it meant 10 live without her SIS
/ ters- On that day the youngest 0t
| the three, Miss Lizzie-and she vas 4
died suddenly of pneumonia. The
! second sister. Miss Maggie, of forty
/ three summers, had been removed 70
/ the Presbyterian hospital, suffering
/ with a severe attack of the same lis
/ ease. On Sunday she, too, passed
/ away.
Sitting there in the Fulton street cot
! taEe numbered 565, Miss Sarah had
/ watched first by the bedside Of her
stricken sisters and comrades and then
| for two days beside the dead. saying
| little murmuring less At last, az
they were bUTying the youngest of The
three and while the other was dying
/ in the hospital, the mind of Miss
/ Sarah Stanton gave way and she BE-
/ came happy-and insane. Her sister
/ had gone to heaven. she said So an.
Z was satisfied.
Judge w L Pond of DeKaIb, sittiH'
I yesterday in the insane court, hear
/ the quaint sister give their new al
( dresses, listened TO the story Of Dr.
/ Hunter and sent Miss Sarah Stanton
/ away to the county insane asylum at
/ Dunning.
That's why they closed the doors
and covered the old-fashioned fuTni-
ture in the Fulton street home.
In Peoria. their birthplace, the rent
al Of property and remittances from
two uncIes. James and Andrew Grimes
had given them all the money needed
and what mystery or secrets may
have hung about their lives they haTs
taken with them-two ito heaven
the third and last into a world of I'M
/ agination and halh1cinatiOn.