Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-17
SUICIDE CAUSED BY LOVE.
Mrs. Eva Mitchell Drowned Herself
Because Could Not Marry.

Mechanic Falls. Me-. May 16.-The de-
tails IF the Suicide of Mrs. Eva r.
Mitchell. who drowned herself, Sunday
and the causes thereof are being learn
ed.
When Mrs DeMerritt Churchill arose
early Sunday morning she found that
hor daughter, Mrs. Eva r. Mitchell
was not in her room. and investigation
showed that she was not in the house
cr anywhere about. Knowing that it
had been her habit 10 go to the river
bank and sit under 4 tree. to hear the
birds sing as she said. her brother
went directly to that spot. expecting to
find his sister enjoying the beauties Of
nature.
Instead he found box containing Il
Bible. a pockethook and :. few other
things a hammer lying on the ground.
while pinned to the trunk of the tree
w,r" two notes. one of the notes read
as follows:
saturday. May II. 1905. Dear Mother.
Brother and Sisters: | BID you all a
last good-by. for am going whore my
father has gone. | am better off than
to live in this world. and can't have
the one | want. I told him if I could
never have him | should end my days
in the river. 50 gcod-bv TO all, and meet
IT, heaven. GoOd-by. sweetheart, l hop"
Won i'll meet me in heaven. He is the
one l want.
MRS. EVA r. MITCHELL"
Scattered between tn" lines of this
letter were til" initials, ~. S. r." Will"
on the outside We're. ID. :. IT, and
Mrs. Eva r. Mitchell"
The other note read as follows:
Saturday, May f. 1907.
Go dig my grave deep and long.
And place my body in it.
And place n turtle dove on my breast
And tell them I died for love.
Goodby. | am better off.
MRS. EVA MITCHELL.
This was also thiclly covered with
the initial ID. S. T."
The selectrnon We're at once notified.
and the river. which is from six to Il
feet deep there. was dragged most of
the day. but the body was not found
until. Monday. when it was discovered
ahnut 4 quarter Of a mile from the spot
where she is supposed to have jumped
in.
Frank Nridge AMI Walter Leach dis
covered the body. The woman was fully
clothed and she wore her coat. Tucked
into her dress was found Il photograph
nf the young man whose initials. ID.
s. t. We're 50 prominent in the notes
| She left. A bouquet Of flowers was pin
ned to her gown. TIL" BODY was given
over to Coroner Spiller, who deemed an
| inquest unnecessary.
The girls father committed suicide
some few years ago by shooting in the
town of Gray. Mrs. Mitchell although
only Is years of age. had been mar
ried twice and had a daughter. aged 9,
| living in Manchester n. III. She was
| married when mere child to John
Young who vas killed by a train at
Woodsville. n. H., four years ago. Some
three years ago she was married 10
Thomas Mitchell. who. it is said, il liv-
ing. is serving time in Portland Jail for
asaulting and nearly killing a French
man.
The ID S. T." referred to in the note
is David :. Taylor a hoy of u, who
smokes cigarettes and reads dime
novels.
He takes the suicide affair very calm
| w. and while tie search for the body
was going on, was at the river bank.
laughing and Joking. occasionally vary
ing the program by diving to the bot
tom and looking for the body of his
sweetheart.
If 1t had been known that Mrs. Mitch
els husband was surely dead. she and
Taylor probably would have been mar
ricd before now. Mrs. MitChelrs life
was insured for a small amount in the
Metropolitan Co.
Moscow is situated almost in the geo.