The Washington times., 1911-01-03
ARRESTS TODAY
ATCUMBERLAND
Authorities Promise to Act After Bodies of Victims of
Double Tragedy Are Laid to Rest In
Distant Graves

element or Tragedy anG palnoS enIeTS
no reason can be advanced why the
Young couple would seek to end their
lives on the eve of their wedding day.
The meeting between the two was most
happy. The girl had talked OF nothing
else for days except her approaching
marriage She bought a trousseau with
the money she had made with her own
hands as a bookkeeper.
She knew the disappointment OF one
marriage, for she was divorcee. In
Twigg. she told her people, she be-
lieHed she had found the man ideal.
She wanted to forget her previous un-
fortunate matrimonial venture, ana
Twigg, broad d-minded, generous
man, who had risen from country
boy on a farm to man or compare :
tive wealth, gauged by the standard
of his section. was willing to help
her forget.
l., Awaiting Round of Gayeties.
He had a handsome home awaiting
her at Keyser. 1t had been put In
readiness for her coming. The honey
moon had been planned: the itinerary
had been arranged; the townspeople
of Keyser were anticipating rouno
Of gayeties in honor of the event.
"You are going to give me your
black and white pony. aren't you
asked one of Miss Elosser's FRIENDS
the day she died.
'No; I am going to take 1t with me
up to Charley's," she answered,
with a happy laugh, as she laid some
article of finery in a packing trunk.
Miss Elosser. was fine horsewom-
an, and her smart trap was one of the
familiar sights of this quasi mining
town The pony was her special pet,
and the little animal seems to under
stand somehow today, as the neigh
bors come and go at the Eiosser
home, while the hearse waits without
10 convey the dead girl to Rose Hill
Cemetery.
The Elossers are people of moderate
more to the affairs or
church than those OF society. The girls
forced to work late owing to the invalid
ism of a father. moved in their own
little circle of church friends and were
identified with the towns church organi-
cations. Only a few weeks ago Grace
Elosser stood up In an experience meet
ing and told of her abiding faith in
things spiritual That is one thing that
causes so many people who knew them
to shake their heads unbelievingly when
the word suicide is used in connection
with her death.
Twigg Experienced Sorrow.
Sorrow had marked the life of Charles
Twigg, too. His father and mother sep
arated when he was comparatively a
young man and the father, It Is said.
ran through with a comfortable for
tune. The death of the son, II Is be-
lieved here today, will result in a recon-
Ciliation between the mother and father
in their declining years, and, to this ex-
tent. the tragedy will not have been in
vain.
Twigg was married once, and happily,
but his wife died three years ago. Since
then he had gone on in that quiet way
Of his, amassing money and awaiting
the time when another woman might
cross his path who could bring back the
HAPPINESS his home once had known.
His business partner, Ed KimmeIi.
says there never was a man who looked
forward more to an approaching we'd
ding day than did Charley TwigR
when he left Keyser last Saturday
afternoon to bring the wedding ring to
his bride-to-be. The same train carried
his body back a day later Somehow,
those who knew the couple best wish
that this man and woman who had
learned TO love each other might have
been buried In the same grave
If 1t was suicide, they would have had
II so; II II was murder, they are at
least entitled to that: II II was accident,
this same humanity TO the dead-grant-
ing, the term may he used-might be
extended.
If one slew the other and then him.
self-that's different. and the graves
may well be score of miles apart-but,
then. no one here will let pass his lips
in seriousness the belief that one killed
the other and then himself.