The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-12-15
Death of Young Girl
PdH of Suicide PACT
svcr IS TIE BELIEF OF FRIENDS
AND STATEMENT OF 9TH
Err VICTIM.
1esleusiy piayco Important Pan and
Heeert Trouble With Lovers Faith
er Also Mentioned

t,iN AnAh one serious crime. Is at
fiouted BY the relatives and friends
Of Miss Annie MCGEE. alias Marie
faNis. who took her own life AT No.
MI Wood road Friday nicht. 10 be-
me reason for her rash act. Becom-
- iailtlc With jealousy over the fact
lnAI a former lover OF hers had taken
announcer girl 10 local thcater this
seNenteen-year-old Wheeling girl. who
mas ben making her home with Mr..
ana MIS-. Henry Roberts. brooded
over the act OF her Romeo. IL Is said.
until che became desrarate enough 10
commit self-desiructfon.
- also said. upo-s GOOD authority.
thst close relative OF Miss McGee's
nsa entered into plot with the dead
giri 10 commit the rash act az the
same time. thus making n double tray-
edl Why the other failed 10 keen
Der part % the nash pact cannot be nm.
uesstood. aud why The second person
Aould sant 20 end her life cannot be
ascertained. In talking 20 an intelH-
sencer reporter last night. she said.
| Vas IS deeD IN n as she was" In
on the utterancp % these words sha
was called into another room ans ali
. avail
II Il said that Annie Niece had a
bottle OF carbolic acid under her Rod
about week befor, she Committed
ne rash act Ind that g. was found
by members of the Roherfs family ard
cmiued. Girl friends OF the dead girl
- we'll a. her sister p.iiSabo,b ssy
mat The glrl had Cflen talked OF XII.
ing herself lnt rs she Was aiawys fox
ing they did not take the fnafter a.
! all serious until after the traredv had
: neen completed and one more life had
4 oeen sent 20 meet ITS maker
|. ~ was said last night by a close
friend OF Miss McGee's that she was
! IN love with Christopher Roberts
which fact was not denied ana maj
ne had been sent away from home by
ms people 10 break up the love AZ
iair. which they did not wish 10 see
terminate seriously She had upon
one occasion told her friends that She
loved MIN Better than her own life
I and that she would never be eatisaad
4 without him. II Is said that he late
4 " came back home and since thcu
1 mad not been speaking 10 the Niece
4 girl. according 10 Tho informant who
! said that Marie" told her She said
\ that Marie" told her my fellow has
/ him"
Had Quarrel.
Furthermore. it Is said that she had
4 quarrel with the Roberts neopla
n sunday evening and q there about
10 O'Clock. going TO some place which
4 Is as yet a mystery 10 relatives and
friends alike. she applied for work
AT the Bailey hotel Monday aud had
! been employed there until the day
before the rash act was committed
4 When speaking to the propriator last
night: he did not know that the girl
who had worked there last week was
s dead, as the girl worked under the
! name OF Marie Travis and not her
real name. Annie MCGEE.
Over the right eye OF the corpss
{ appears a slight scar which the dead
girl is said TO have received while
in a scunle with Henry Roberts re
j Gently when they were PLAYING or AZ
least that is the story given ont bv
some. From another source comes
the story that the McGec girl was
visiting at the home of friend on
Market street and that she had her
hand IN To her forehead In some
manner she pushed her hair ND and
\ disclosed mark near the hair line
II This friend stated 20 a reporter last
|. night that the girl said: Did YOU see
thet SCARF ! did not mean for any
n one 10 see that She further stated
4 that she received the scar during Tho
quarrel according 10 the Intelligencer
I. informant but that she did not say
a direct who caused f.. The informant
d said that she inferred the person who
4 fid the injury, but refused 20 tell the
4 name.
Was this scar received In friendly
I combat with Mr Roberts or did she re-
q reiNe ~ from some other source ~ n
i Guc7tipu which e. causing the friends
Il .ud relatives ~ the young girl close
n tiN "lht' reason Tor the rash acts
d Does o." family where the young Girl
made ner. home know more than they
hHF" told about the occurrence. Is e
4 question unaue Wcred. When called last
i riFlt hy reporter. Mr.. Roberts said
NOV h" would answer no questions on
4 'h" subject q that time. lie was asked
!. whether ur uof ID. girl was 300 love with
4 fis son. This he refused % answer.
H bouts ~ tho Firl last week This he
o.. 10 ~cfused 90 answer.
DOCS ne know
\ This VIII likely 10 brought out at
the coroners Inquest. which r. TO be
mitchell.
Mis-. Annie H Her Life f.. dead s,i fl.
Che daughter of andy MCGEE. assistant
wharfraeter aud tho. sister of sixteen
Hcr mother died few years ago ana
! l"ft Annie % care Tor the family and
p tg try and hold 90 together Fiudiur
ur hire home with the Roberts family
about tVp years oEo and has lived there
During the month Of August 30 By
: saiI. she lived ur another place lr f'r
iIr.i Ir HeIi1ifc 81 I'D lime h9eeve.
h1. made her home 80 the Roberts
De-. rtlr sine worked at a shooting
|EaIIe.l Uu Market street. and later for
Job. Maths .r thc Market auditorium.
While working iu tho auditorium 4lc
boarded at another place on the National
.tr1d. which number could not o., learn.
Ied. % is s,id Tint in June sh, told q
. batter Cham nur main she had ever soon.
.luf .' Hr Hhnr' fhie time that The I1,
NHH SOM .r"u home fo break up loves
Dat bog family had always been Sis.
sine af her,
b .tt e. enid that .aLc went Co ,al DO q
D aistsr which foot vls denied d.. d..
a' "ni'" th'rc bad been arIrE-