Show M 1 KILLS HER BABE BAB AND THEN HERSELF Mrs C C. R. R Snowden of Mt Pleasant While in a Despondent n Mood Commits the Terrible Crime f rho The two two letters letters which follow were found found foUli yesterday about noon by bythe the tho jury while the members weir examining the premises and the t surroundings at the house honse They were introduced at the inquest at the thelast thelast t last moment after the examination had been concluded The first J lone one was directed to Mrs 1 Eliza Keeler mother of the deceased Mrs R Snow Snowden en at Richfield It Jt was wa without without date and read lead as follows follows Dear Mother Forgive Forgive mo me for what I 1 am about to do I have been ver very very unhappy since I 1 have been here Neal is always kind y but hut he ho expects me mo to be put on by his mother and Jim and and- andI I cant can't canty do it There Theio is no way out of it only this Good Bye x x- x x x The second letter was without date also and was directed direct d to Mr Snowden It reads as follows Dear Neal Please forgive mo nee for what I am about to do I can stand it no longer Since 1 I have been here hero 1 I have been very very unhappy un un- ts happy and will end it all now Remember me as your own devoted wife wife vite b before fore your mother came If J I leave babe take good care caio of her hei and keep her with you If ever you marry many again dont don't let your wife live with her hei or your mother Your own sad heartbroken Audrey ar f if Mrs s. s Audrey Snowden wife of Dr C. C R. R Snowden the dentist committed suicide by shooting herself through the head with a 4 41 c calibre libre Colts Colt's revolver at her hei home in this city Wednesday evening after ha having ing first t taken ken the life of her little months 22 months old J i irl by h shooting tiri it i ili the the- same way way M w ith the same weapon The little littlechild child was wa shot in the forehead the bullet et going through J the head heid and into the floor beyond death was not instantaneous the jj fry child living nearly two hours t- t 5 1 receiving ving the wound The Ther r r Y mothers mother's death was instantaneous The revolver r in in her hei case had been t 5 pressed firmly against the head f about about- two-inches two in front of the t H right light ear the ball entered at this 1 I s i point and came out behind the I YC left ear I The terrible tragedy was committed committed committed com com- I a few minutes after 5 O o'clock Wednesday evening Dr 1 Snowden d en h had ac l I been a absent b sent from J rom home all day and his wife had bad be been alone with her bel mother-in- mother law the doctors doctor's mother It had bad been noticed at intervals throughout through through- out the tho day that the unfortunate lady was greatly discouraged and depressed and her action at times were somewhat queer In the tho evening ng a short short- time before she FI committed the deed she h. h entered the older elder Mrs i Snowden in conversation conver- conver s tion and asked her if a child would be bo disgraced if its parent I sh should uld take her own life lifo She SheVa SheI was Va remonstrated w with th for on entertaining entertaining enter enter- tor- tor such thoughts and told that such an a act t would disgrace aco a achild ais is- is child forever Sh Shortly r ly after this conversation conversation the elder elder J. Mis Snowdon Snowdon Snow- Snow I f don left and started across the tho Ii f lot to the adjoining place on the north She had gone but a short distance when she heard what she thou thought ht was two pistol l shots the se second ond one ono following the tho f tir- tir first rt t very very- very closely She was startled startled start start- led and feared that there might be I something something- wrong in n the house for r herself to believe o ott otherwise otherwise other other- wise s- s saria and aria went went on on to attend attend to to her herer er errand and She returned in a few moments but as the house was quiet she was still timid about making an investigation She entered her own room loom h by a side sided d door or put on her per hat and went immediately immediately immediately im im- mediately up town Her fears that something was wrong at the house were comI communicated com communicated com com- to J Jas as Snowden Snowden a aI agi I gi grown own rown son of the doctors doctor's who I I was at atthe the office and he went immediately immediately im- im im- im I mediately to investigate He went into the house through a 3 a rear door and found the larger roo rooms looms s empty Going to the door of a closet which leads from the parlor h ho he hoard heard the peculiar breathing of some person person on the floor in in front of him A light A-light light t was pi procured and the tho body of the tho little baby girl was discovered on the floor lying in its own life blood and with the tho hideous gaping wound in it its its foro fore h head bead The Th young man d did didot id not ot discover discover dis dis- covet cover cover the tho mother het but started irn im im me mediately i tely for foi help Jr Ray Hay was Seas requested to come Gome and did so returning 10 re- turning with the boy The doctor re-I re entered the room and nd ag as ho stooped stoop stoop- c ed l to pick up the tho ba baby y he ho discovered dis- dis j dis-j 1 covered the dead body of the tho mother mother lying lying in ih one corner of the closet half reclining on a ti- ti trunk whore where it had had-f had fallen all en when the fatal shot hat been fire fired Every Every- at- at on sixth page J E if |