Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1910-05-14
ae,rayed Girl Drinks POISON.


Ciasping a gold locket containing the
picture OF the young man she accused
Adam Walters near Waynesboro. Pa.
a victim OF suicide by poison, She left
several letters. one to a young man.
In which she said:
"You have won my love and have
betrayed me- This is driving me crazy.
I would rather die than live a ruined
life You will have to- meet your God
as we'll as I. and hope you will re.
pent OF what you have done before
you go TO meet him.
Miss Tolbert was thirty years old
Her body wa staken TO Fayetteville.
Monday. May 9.
In taking the census OF Maryland
the enumerators missed both Governor
Crothers and his private secretary.
Emerson r. crothers.
There are 100 Young men in West
Berwick. Pa. who came from one
town. Roccayivi. Italy. the population
OF which IL about $500.
Thomas F. Byrne. former snperin.
tendent OF police OF New York. famous
for his work In the detective bureau.
died at New York. aged sixty.six years
Nehemiah Roach. of Georgetown.
Del. whose legs were cut on in rail.
road accident at Harbeson. some years
ago. has been pensioned by the Penn
sylvania railroad at $50 a month.
Tuesday, May 10.
Wesleyan Female college at Macon.
Ga. has been ordered closed. prob.
ably for the term. by the president.
DR.. Ainsworth. because of an outbreak
OF typhoid fever
Despondent. II is believed. on ac
count of III health. Peter Eller. sixty
two years old. Civil War veteran
whose home was In Roanoke. Va. shot
and killed himself at the home OF his
son-in-law. Acting Detective Harry
Tucker. In Philadelphia.
Missing since Nav 3. the body OF
Edward Darragh thirty.two years Of
age. was found floating in the Chris
tiana river at Wilmington. Del From
the appearance OF the body II had
probably been In the water about four
days. No foul play is suspected.
Wednesday. May II.
The nomination OF Thomas J. Alcot;
10 be United States marshal for the
district Of New Jersey was sent TO the
senate Tuesday.
While Chief OF Police Ernest Hahn
OF Mount Oliver. near Pittsburg. Pa.
was guarding the homes OF the Dor.
ough. burglars entered his home and
carried on a gold watch. silverware
and diamond rings that were secreted
in china closet
Dependency over being Tilted caus.
ed Charles Shuey. aged twenty-five. to
commit suicide at his home in Harris.
burg. Pa. Shuey was engaged to marry
girl. but she chose another man.
He cut her portrait from frame, and
placing II beside him took chloroform.
Thursday. May ~.
The issue Of trading stamps by
Washington merchants was prononnc.
ed unlawful by the District of Colum.
bia court Of appeals in a divided de
cision.
A bronze tablet was unveiled at
Market and Lake streets. in Chicago
the site OF the old "wigwam" whcr,
Abraham Lincoln was nominated for
president IN 1860.
An uncor lltional pardon granted to
William Roberts. aged twenty.cight.
arrived too late at Moundsville. W
Va. when his counsel arrived at tho
prison with the pardon Roberts was
dead OF tuberculosis.
George Barton. a negro aged thirty.
three years. was killed while he slept
in barn two miles from Utica. N. V.
and Joseph Shultz. white man OF the
same ase. Is being hunted for