Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-16
browns HERSELF
AND TWO CHILDREN
Mother Plucks Flowers Before
lying Down in Shallow Water
With Boy, S, and Girl, 3
oUARRELED WITH HUSBAND

A mother, crazcd by illness and petty
quarrels with her husband, was found
dead late yesterday in Timber Creek,
Chew's Landing. y. j., in only four
feet of water. where, the Coroner says,
she had drowned herself and her two
children.
The hour of the tragedy is indefinite,
but IL is believed to have occurred some
time Tuesday evening after the young
woman had wandered through the
woods with her little ones for several
hours medtating on her proposed deed
and plucking flowers for the children
she meant to kill.
The dead woman was Mrs. Carrie
Munroe. twenty three years old, OF
Chew's Landing, and the children were
Carl Eulenstein, five years old. and
Elma Eulcnstein, three years old, by
her first husband. The little group was
last seen by some boys who were swim
ming in the creek where the bodies
we're found. At that time the mother
ones, walking with q chubby fist held
in each of her hands. Little Elmer was
carrying n bunch of flowers, newly
plucked from the woods nearby. \ few
hours later the flowers were found
wilted and broken. on the bank of the
creek, and the three bodies we're at the
bottom of the shallow stream few
feet away.
Coroner Arthur IolI. in issuing a Ger
tifcate of death this morning. said
that in his opinion the woman had
clasped the two children in her arms
and, walking into the creek, had lain
do, 4 h.
of the shallowness of the stream where
the bodies were found, the Coroner
believes it would have been al
most impossible for the deaths to have
occurred by accident. There was no
evidence of foul play. The only mark
on any of the bodies was a cash in the
mother g forehead, which the authorities
believe was caused by some floating OBJ
ject. or a stone at the bottom of the
creek.
Coroner Holl says that he and County
Detectives Doran and Smith had made
n complete investigation Of the affair
and believe that the woman was driven
TO her act by illness and a certain des-
peration caused by a series of petty
quarrels with her husband, Samuel
Munroe
Munroe is employed as a machinist
ht Second and Race streets, this city.
He has only been working a short time.
The couple conducted a small store at
their Chews Landing home. Munroe at
first denied that he had had any quar-
rel with his wife. but Coroner Holl
claims that he confessed this morning
that there had been series Of petty
arguments running over several weeks.
When Munroe returned from work
Tuesday night he had some words with
his wife, and she left short time later,
taking the two children. and saying
that she was going TO visit the home Of
her brother, David Sink, who has farm
close by. When she did not return at
bedtime he was not worried. as he be-
lieved that she was going to stay at
Der brothers for the night. Mrs. Nun
roe expected 10 become a mother again
within week. and Munroe's mother,
Mrs. Mary Munroe, was staying at their
home until after the event. Mrs. Mary
Munroe also believed that her daugh
ter in law was TO stay at her brother s
and was not worried.
The funerals of the woman and her
children will be held Saturday morn
ing from the Sink home. Services will
be conducted in the Chews Landing
Methodist Episcopal Church and inter-
ment will be in the church cemetery.