Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-23 | Page 1 | Two Girls Carry out Suicide Pact

10 GIRLS C OUT SUICIDE PACT Hold Pistols at Each Other's Temples and Fire in Cafe Booth. PORTSMOUTH, X. H., March 22.-f Two young women held revolvers at each other 'a temples and fired, both dropping dead, iu a booth at the Porte-mouth Porte-mouth cafe tonight. They had previously previ-ously registered at the Rockingham hotel ho-tel as Athel Stanton and Roae King of Welleslcy, Mass. In a traveling bag left at the hotel by the King girl was a letter telling of an agreement between the two girls to commit suicide and asking that they be buried together. The letter, signed "Foggy' was addressed to Mrs. L. 8paulding, Newton Centre, Mass. The police communicated with Mrs. Spauld-iug Spauld-iug and learned that "Rose King" was her daughter. A note addressed to "'. S. Malshury, Johnson building, Cincinnati, was found in the Slanton girl's bag. Thn bag also contained a ticket to Vv'clletley and a small amount of change. The girls, each about 20 years of ago, had been in the booth for more than two hours before other diners were startled star-tled to hear two phots. They Tushed to the booth and found the girls lying dead on the floor. The authorities late tonight had been unable to establish the identity or residence resi-dence of the girl calling herself Ethel Stanton. It was lr-arned latnr that the note found in M if-s Spa u) ding 's bag was signed "Peggy" aud F-1 h p I . ' ' Its text was not niade publ'to. The police said thp note declared that the girls ' ' had to die, ' ' that is was better that they should do so." aod expressed the hope that "all would meet in a better world." It gave no definite reason rea-son for their act. The girls came to this citv on Wednesday Wed-nesday afternoon and spent the nicht at ttie Koi'kingham. They wove well dressed but had litrV luc.'ie. Apparency Ap-parency t hey hud pi em y nf money. They breakfasted iu thv ronm this morning and spent tho entire day there. Early in the evening thev went to the cafe. They chnse a booth at the (Continued on Pag Five.) 10 GIRLS CARRY GOT SUICIDE PACT (Continued from Page One.) end of the room farthest from the entrance en-trance and ate their dinner leisurely. After finishing their meal they remained re-mained in the booth, conversing earnestly. ear-nestly. Several times they called a waiter and ordered black coffee, which they drank. Shortly before 11 o'clock, when few other persons remained in the cafe, two shots rang out. Waiters and diners found the girls' bodies each with a bullet hole in the head. In the Stanton girl's hand was clutched a X2-caliber X2-caliber revolver. A revolver of 22-caliber 22-caliber lay beside Miss Spaulding's body. What was at first understood to be a note addressed to Mr. Malsbury was later found to he simply a scribbled request re-quest to notify him of the girl's death. CTXCTXNWTT. Ohio. March 22. Judsre Malsbury when seen at his home here Inte tonitrht said ha was the executor of Ethel Stnnron's mother's pstate. Ethel Stanton's fa ther is J. Ty. Stanton, city passenger a sent of the Rock Island railroad, rail-road, with headquarters at T.os Angeles. Accord in'.; to .Tud?e Mnlshury, Pta nton divorced his wife and she married F. A. Snider, a manufacturer of Erie, Ta. Jucle Mals'nury said Mrs. Snider vai: later kll'ed in an automobile accident.