The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-06-30
FLIMSY SCANDAL
ENDS IN SUICIDE
Julia Sharp Dies From Self,
Inflicted Wound in Cabin Home
REVIvES AN OLD TALE
THAT STIRRED BUFFALO SoclE.
TY TO ITS VERY DEPTHS
MUCH SYMPATHY FOR
n YOUNG WOMAN.

Danville, Va, June 29-JuIia Sharp
the beautiful girl whose engagement
to Manson Fiske, of Buffalo, n Y,
was broken almost the hour he was
to have led her to the altar in April
1908, lies dead in Sharps station,
little hamlet in the mountains half
dozen miles from here, with a bullet
wound through her temple.
Those who say they know, declare
the girl committed suicide Those
who are interested in covering up the
reasons for her failure to marry ana
the scandal that was whispered about
at that time and even after she went
into retirement, insist that her death
was due to accident
AT all events, this girl, who was u
former leader among the exclusive
set. of. Buffalo, whose beauty made
her one Of the most popular, If not
the most popular: society girl In north
.ern Ncw;Y York, was found dead in the
dawn: of. day. with great wound in
he" right temple and pistol clutch
ed. in. her hand. This girls death
suicido@or accident, whichever 1t may
he-recalls the scandal that shook
Buffalo in a way that the city had not
stirred since the famous Burdlck
murder.
No yCnng man In Buffalo was nl
more prominence socially than young
Fiskc, whose father Is retired
banker. He met Miss Sharp in the
spring of 1909, and his attentions to
her were marked from the first She
was an athletic girl
From the day the engagement was
announced. Albert j Myer, of Bnifa
10, who had gained the title of major
because OF his services during the
SpaBish.Ameflcan war, and a brother
in-law of Miss Sharp, made no secret
OF tho fact that he opposed the mar.
riage. 1t was talked Of in the Buffalo
clubs, to all of which Maj. Mycr be
longed 1t was whispered about In
society and no one understood.
Mrs Myer, with her oldest child a
boy of l9, went to Europe and Miss
Sharp accompanied her sister While
abroad story was told Of Miss
Sharp's illness from nervous prostra
tlon
As the time of the wedding ap
preached, Myer became more and
more bitter against the marriage
Then came the day for the wedding
What occurred that day will probably
never he known, but SO close was the
time for the minister to pronounce
the pretty girl and the son Of the
banker man and wife, that the church
was thrown open and the Buffalo
newspapers printed the fact that the
marriage had taken place
Then came the announcement thai
the wedding was off There were
those who said that Maj Myer had
talked with the prospective brilc
groom. At all events the we iding
did not occur.
Miss sharp became recluse Mrs
Myer was devotion itself 70 her sis
tor When the scandal reached her
ears she refuted It,
y know all these rumors, she said !
There is not one word of truth m !
them They are lies from whole
cloth"
And then Miss Sharp disappeared |
from BuTSlo She came here She
kept aloof from all old friends for n |
long time, hut recently she seemed
to be returning TO her old aud happier |
temperament
Miss Sharp belonged 10 one of the
oldest and most prominent families
In NorthCarolina her father. Col |
William Sharp. having a large and
handsome estate at The Meadows. |
which h only short distance from |
Spray. n c.
They say" the Young woman was
In the habit Of sleeping with a pistol |
under her pillow and that she in some /
Nay accidentally discharged the d;
tol while asleep They bring for
ward as proof Of this the fact that
he bullet entered her head from be /
hind the car.