The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-03-19
THE GIRL DIES. TIE MAN LIVES
Tragic Death Of loung Girl and At
tempted Suicide Of Her Lover.

Tragic Death Of lOung Girl and At.
tempted Suicide Of Her Lover.
The village of Lickingville. Clarion
county, and community surrounding
was thrown into a lever Of excitement on
Thursday last by the discovery of the
tragic death OF Miss Katie Harmon aged
about IL years, and the attempted suicide
OF her lover, Fred Frill, who is about %
years OF age, and both are residents oi
that vicinity.
On the morning stated the young man
came to the Red Lion Hotel and COM
planned to the proprietor, Mr.. Wagner,
that he was not feeling well and asked
for bed that he might lie down for a
while. He was assigned room and be-
fore retiring told The landlord that Katie
Harmon, who lived with her mother a
short distance from the hotel, was sick
and should have a doctor. No particu-
lar notice was paid to this message undl
about 1890 o'clock that afternoon when
the attention OF the people in the hotel
was called to peculiar sounds in Frilrs
bed chamber. The door was broken in
and they found him writhing in convul-
sions. By his side was an empty bottle,
the label of which showed that 1t had con-
tanned oil of tansy. Drs. Hess and Beatty
were summoned, and by prompt and ef-
ticient action, were able to restore the
young man, who is again ablo 10 be
about.
While the doctors were being sum-
moned TO attend Frill the people called
to mind what he had said about Miss
Harmon, and party went to the Har-
mon home. They found all of the doors
locked and the blinds drawn. The door
was forced open and Katie Harmon was
found dead in bed and near by were
three bottles. One contained some whs.
key, another some green liquid and the
other was empty. After viewing the
body DR.. Hess. of Fryburg, and DR..
Phillips. of Leeper's declared that she haG
been dead for at least II hours.
1t appears the young people had been
lovers, and from Frill's remark to Land
lord Wagner about the girls illness it is
thought they were together at the Har-
mon home during the previous night.
The parents of the girl had been sepa-
rated fer some months and the mother
aud daughter had made their home in
Lickingville, but the mother was not at
home on this occasion.
Squire Michael Willings, acting coro-
ner. empaneled the following jury on
Thursday evening and held an inquest:
A. Kinch, +. Alexander, ID. Il. Berhart,
n. P. Clifford, John Clifford and c. Sig
worth.
A post mortem was held on the body
of Katie Harmon on Friday, which prov
ed that the unfortunate girl would have
been mother IN about seven months.
A druggist from Fryburg testified be-
fore the coroner that afternoon and iden-
titled the bottle found on Frill as sold TO
him by the druggist aud that il had con-
tanned oil of tansy.
No testimony was adduced to show
tndt rTlli Ddu Deen III tne uhIOrtuDate
young woman's company all Wednesday
night, and all that connects him with her
death is the fact that be came to the hotel
at II o'clock on Thursday morning and
stated that she was sick, aud the testi
mony of the doctors, when the body was
found on Thursday afternoon was to the
effect that she had been dead IL hours.
The post mortem also showed tina. her
death had been caused by oil of tansy
and the theory is that it was taken by
her with intent to relieve her from her
unfortunate condition and subsequent
disgrace.
The men who found the girls dead
body in bed at her mothers home testi-
fed that the bed clothing had been ar
ranged about her body after her death.
The jury brought in verdict but it is
sealed and will not be opened until they
can consult an attorney at Clarion. The
young man is under arrest pending fur
ther Developments in the case.
The unfortunate young girl was
daughter of Danial Harman who has
lived in the vicinity of Lickingville for
many years.