Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-12-02
BRIDESMAID DIES
OF HEART FAILURE
Found Dead in Bath Tub at
Fall Home in El Paso,
Texas
SAD INCIDENT HALTS WEDDING
Private Ceremony in Place of
Splendid Festivities
Planned.

El Paso. Tex, Dec. Miss Mar.
garet Bacon. who was to have been
bridesmaid for Miss CAROLYN Fall. at
the latter's marriage Yesterday to Mar
ion Thatcher Everhart, of Pueblo was
found dead in bath tuh at the Fall
home Tuesday night and the wedding
has been postponed. Miss Bacon is
from Evansville, Ind. and was
schoolmate of Miss Fall. and the lat
ter is a daughter of Judge a. B. Fall,
former attorney general of New Mex
leo. \ rehearsal for the wedding had
been held only an hour before Miss
Bacon's body was found.
! Private Weddings.
The following account OF the sad
incident from last evenings FL Paso
Herald:
Death, suddenly visiting a brides
maid has turned song to dirge, and
merry laughter to sorrowfuI qiuet, end
ing all the gay preparations for what
was to have been one of Ell Paso's
most brilliant weddings On the very
day of the wedding, Miss Margaret Ba.
con, visiting brides maid, OF Evans.
vile, Ind, early this morning died
from heart failure And today Miss
Caroline Fall, the bride to be. daughter
of Judge A. b. Fall. of this city
rF i nj
mate-and that on her wedding day.
Decorations are being torn down
from the auditorium of the First Pres
byterian church. Potted plants and
mammoth ferns and soft treading car
pers are being loaded away, and the
church dismantled of its timely deco
rations The flowers will adorn the
bier of the dead girl. There will be
no wedding at the church tonight.
Instead, grief stricken bride, be.
=, reaved of friend beloved. will wed,
at the home of her parents on Golden
Hill the groom, Marion Thatcher
Everhart, of Pueblo, Colo, with none
; hut immediate relatives and intimate
friends of tn family to witness the
union. And after the knot is tied, the
newly made husband and wife will
, lake the train to New Orleans for a
, stay in Cuba. And while they are
speeding on their honeymoon, a grief
broken father. Hillary E. Bacon, an
I Evansville merchant. will be on his
way to FL Paso. where he comes to
] claim the corpse of his dear daugh-
tel, while mother and three children
await his sad return.
Sudden End of Dinner Party.
At the st. Regis hotel last night the
happy groom and a company of
friends sat at stag dinner and ioked
as only young men can on the eve OF
the. wedding Of friend.
Their laughter was broken by the
arrival of a messenger shortly after 10
o'clock, and one Of their number, a
doctor, hurried from the table.
While retiring for the night one of
the brides maids had been stricken
with heart failure, the messenger said
and she was not expected TO live the
! Light through.
Doctors Efforts Useless.
At the home of the bride, home
: enlivened by the presence of a house
party of relatives and friends. five
Doctors worked over the unconscious
form of the young woman from that
hour until shortly after midnight. And
then she died, despite the artificial
respiration produced by the men of
i medicine.
During the day Miss Bacon had
complained of an old heart malady, ap-
pearently made greater by the change
of altitude during her two weeks visit
; here. But in the afternoon she had
taken part in the mock wedding at the
church-a rehearsal of merriment and
good cheer.
The attack came that night sudden
ly and Unexpectedly, rendering her un-
able even to send parting message to
, far distant relatives and friends.
And so the two friends of girlhood
, days-classmates at Mt. Vernon sem.
mary in Washington, D. C.-have been
, separated, and the wedding day is
darkened. while the heart of a bride
is wrung with woe.
ARCTIC EXPLORER