Show n AT N Of BY mJ INE ROUTE o W 10 oDAR DAR BAR PEOPLE HORRIFIED YESTERDAY Y MORNING ON LEARNING OF DEA DEATH OP Or YOUNG GIRLS W WHO O DELIBERATELY DELIBERATELY DE Y DESTROYED THEMSELVES V S. S 0 Yesterday morning the he citizens of of Were startled and shocked to tc toI o ra 11 I of the death of Erma Hancock Her fr er of Geo B B. B Hancock and andrI rl rI 1 Corry Coiry daughter of Geo Corry hot of this city ln Investigation stig tion proved that the girls i entered into a suicide pact and a bottle of strychnine at Tog drar store telling the clerk that i wanted vented it to poison mice or rats getting the poison they went the Bladen home on south Main Maini i ind and in the basement mixed half hall the tie poison in two glasses of milk the contents to securing the poison polson thenet the i net mft Gwen Tweedie a friend of 01 etwo two girls and they told her they lire re II t going coing i t to kill themselves but they laughingly laughin t talked of it d 1 d the lie thought they were just jok jok- This was about in the theDr Dr eg Gwen thought no more of ud IDd having occasion to go 0 to the est nt Dt about an hour later found girls irli rJ acting in a peculiar ma manner ner eked Wem was matter 07 f told her they had taken poison 1 m ins ni going to die Gwen rushed e mother nether who lived in an adjoin adjoin- hoase and the lady went immedi immedi- I ly to the girls Mrs Ford also J if t near was called and she asked f girls l why wb- they had taken the 40 aa receiving the answer from that they wanted to die but It v she lie did not want to and begged n II Ford to save her Mrs Mu Ford 1 Mrs Tweedie gave first aid in inay II tray ay of mustard and white of eggs J immediately called Dr Bergstrom Ras lIS as on the ground in a very few nil ats and rushed the unfortunate to the hospital where he did all allMe iDle Me to save lave their lives but they taken so much poison that all modes dies were unavailing and both bothin bothI ilia in I horrible agony Ito the girls each left a note saying they were sorry and asked their hen tit to forgive them They blamed City for their act and said t they ey could not be brought back 1 In n her ber note said she was going f tee let her mother and Erma in her pressed expressed the wish that she Old have nave seen her mother before g g. Coroner Cof Alex If H H. H Rollo called an in- in St and nd selected selected a jury Roy Nazer lph Ip Hanzon Eugene Christensen Iio bo f Viewed the bodies and listened 7 nce given by Marshal Walker Bergstrom Gwen Tweedie Mrs r Ford and Mrs Mrs James Tweedie lr r which deliberated they deliberated and bra ed the following verdict Met Mety th y by taking strychnine internally catered by themselves TIlt the fathers When of the unfortunate de are Prostrate with grief and ria h account for the act of the There was nothing that could t e caused ed despondency or urged to DI to 10 d destroy troy themselves II I |