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Show DID M DO IT? A Most Bemarkable Young Lady Who Preferred the Sleep of Death to Life. NEW Y0EZ ATT0ENEY SHOT DOWN. A Fatal Cutting Affray Another Monarch Takes Up tho Pen Notes of' Interest. TTby did Jennie Benson kill herselff That is a question but one person in Borne City, Ind., can answer, and he has not a word to say. No questionable motive closes his lips. It is the silence of au honorable man to whom an unhappy girl told a secret. She loved him. He asked her to be his wife. She refused, but acknowledged acknowledg-ed her affection, and in confidence gave him the reason for her negat ive to his proposal. I'rom that on no thought of marriage oc- tcupied the minds of William Glatte and Jennie Benson, Ben-son, but the man remained her honored hon-ored and trusted friend to the last. Twice did she try to commit suicide. The first time she failed. Then Bhe went to Washington Washing-ton Court House, 0., sought a secluded se-cluded street and FTBJ.V'ri'Vot herself ,'v" ' through the heart. JENNIE BENSON. 0nly by chanca was her identity established. That the corpse of the beautiful, unhappy girl was well cared for is shown by the following letter that accompanied it home: To thk Mothkb Your poor sweet girl bos had all the care and attention that sympathizing and regardful bands could give by respectable ladles of this city. Be assured that she was tenderly and gently dealt with. Yours with sympathy. Appended were the names of numerous gentle hearted women of Washington Court House. The entire population of Borne City attended the funeral. At 20 years of age Jennie Benson sleeps beneath the daisies. Was she wronged f Did she sin? These are questions to which probably prob-ably there will never be a reply. |