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Show GIRL SETS ALARM CLOCK AS SIGNAL FOR DEATH Disappointed in Love, She Attempts Suicide at Fan-' Fan-' cicd Time of Young: Man's Marriage. SWMftWaMewas CHICAGO, June 9. An alarm clock has given the signal for Nora Collo-way, Collo-way, a 20-year-old working girl, to jump into the lake tn an effort to end a life of misery. The girl had set the alarm for the exact moment which she thought Allan Johnson, whom she loved, was to marry another. Taking the clock with her she walked ! out to the pier and waited. She had ! written a farewell note to her sister and was prepared to die. Finally the alarm sounded and the young woman 1 leaped into the water. But try as she would she could not sink. Her flaring skirts buoyed her up and her attempts to get her head under water were in vain. Her splashing was heard by two men, who 'procured a boat and rescued her, despite her resistance. After Miss Col Iowa y was taken from the water she learned that her alarm clock was two weeks behind time,' for her sweetheart was married & fortnight fort-night ago. |