The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-21
TRAGEDY ON THE SOUND
WOMAN DROWNS HERSELF AND
 HER THREE CHILDREN.

Leaves Her Stateroom About Midnight
 and Throws Herself and Little Ones
 from the Deck of the Steamer Ply
 mouth.
 Fall River, Mass, Feb. 2O.-When the steamer Plymouth of the Fall Riv CT line arrived here this morning it be- came known that a shocking tragedy had occurred on board during the night.
 About 2 o'clock, when the steamer was within an hour of Newport, sa- loon watchman noticed that the door of Stateroom 120 was open, and looking in he discovered a lot of outside wearing apparel belonging to a woman and children. The room was unoccupied, but he found a note written on piece of wrapping paper addressed to John, Walters, Brooklyn, N. Y.
 The note was as follows:
 Dear John;-Forgive me for all this trouble. My heart has been broken. Dear John, forgive me for causing you this great sorrow. But could not live and, could not leave our dear chil- dren. LEILA"
 At first the note was supposed to be a hoax, but the occupant of the adjoin- ing room said later that about mid night he had heard children crying in the next room.
 A thorough search was made at New port for the missing passengers, and again on the arrival of the steamer here, but without avail.
 Mrs. Waters was on the passenger list of the Plymouth as Mrs, B. c. AL len." She was about thirty years old.
 This afternoon another note left by the woman was made public. It read:
 Dear John: Don't think I don't care, Oh, oh, if you only knew"
 Mrs. Walters was q Fall River girl of about thirty years. She had been aiIing for several years, and had ra- gently been visiting here. Last Satur- day her husband same on and return ed on the boat with her and the chil- dren to New York that evening.
 When Mrs. Walters boarded the Ply mouth in New York last evening noth- ing wrong was noticed in her appear ance. About midnight the occupant of the next room heard chlldren's cries, but thought nothing of 1t.
 Shortly afterwards a watchman pass ing by noticed that the door of State- room 120 was open, and looking in saw outer wearing apparel scattered about. He gave the alarm and investigation by the boats officers disclosed the two notes.
 The affair caused a sensation in this 1 city and was a shock to the family and l friends. As far as known here the domestic relations of MT. and Mrs. Walters were of the happiest, marred only by her i'll health. New York, Feb. 20.-At the office of the National Association of Manufac- l turers, No. ITO Broadway, Marshall Cushing, president of the association, said that John w. Walters was the manager of the associations fire insur- | ance bureau. and lived at No. 279 King I ston avenue, Brooklyn, with his wife and three children. Helen four years | old, Dorothy two years old, and John, an infant.
 Mir, Walters had told MT. Gushing I that his wife and three children had | left home yesterday afternoon, Mrs Walters telling the maid she was go- ing to have the children's pictures talk en. She did not return home last night and there was no photographer at the address given. Mrs. Walters had been | confined in a sanitarium several years ago, and was subject to short periods of insanity. MT. Walters will leave for ] Fall River this afternoon.