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Show MET DEATH AT THE SAME HOWR. Lo-Oin Tair Who Chose "Dying Together to Lining Apart. From Gay to Gra"e. Springing from a cnucli on whit Ii she hail reclined nervously for h nirs. .Vol He (ieyer counted the four strokes of tlie old hull clock 111 her school friend's home In .nnesvllle, () , 'nnd as the hum of the llmil stioke was still v limiting the nlr she placed 11 levolver to her temple, scic.iiued, ".liuncs, I am coin-lug coin-lug to miet joill" pulled the tllgger and fell, shot through the he.id. says u Xiilicsvlllf dispatch. At the same moment her sweetheart, Jnines Itnj, shot lilm-elf at the gate of the eouityaril of Ids slsjcr's home, three miles outside of town. Ills body was found by a policeman who had been seeking hlin to get from him an explanation for the suicide of .Miss (iejer. The joung people had loved each other devotedly for two jears, but their pniciits hail placed a ban on the union, and rather than sulTei- permanent perma-nent separation they planned the sen-Hiillomil sen-Hiillomil double suicide and kept the comp.ict at pieclscly I a. in. the same da.v . P.cfused permission to see Hay III her patents' home, Miss (iejerwent to live with her school friend, .Mrs. William I'm Ker. There the two deiied tin- edict of their parents that they should not meet each other. Time passed, and the months wore Into a ,v ear, but the (Jeyeis and the Kays weie no nearer to an ngi cement that their son and daughter should be miiirlcil, and the joung people began to grow disconsolate. So far 11s their f 1 lends could see, theie was 110 change In the disposition of either .Miss (Jeyer or joung Hay, but the death pact Jmll- cates they had discussed It for soinel time as being the best way to dispose of their Insurmountable ililliculty. Bay purchased the two revolvers, and then the details of the fatal agieemeiit were planned by the pair as though they were making sure of their happiness for life. It was agieed that us the clock sltuck -I they would tire the deadly shot at the same moment. On l-'ilday night Itny called for Miss (iejer and took her to a theater, returning before midnight They laughed as they walked arm liuarm fiom the house, and! the girl's merry voice awakened Mrs, Pari; ci. There was nothing to indicate I the purpose that was in their minds. It was learned after the double sulcldo that when Hay called on Friday night Miss 1 iejer had Just Mulshed writing a letter to her mother bidding her faie-well faie-well and forgiving her and her father for nil the misery they had brought Into her young life. Skipping away from that death message to meet her I Mvccthcait. with 11 laugh the girl took his aim and went to the theater. Their last farewell seemed to bt happy enough q'helr voices were heanl for half an hour after they re-1 turned home, and then Miss (Jeyer was! lien nl to enter the house and pass np. BHE SENT A llL'I.I.UTTIIItOUGH JIKIt 11HA1N', stairs. She did not go to her room, but lecllned on n couch In the hall until un-til thu clock struck tho hour nt which she was to die. Counting tho strokes as Bhe drew the glittering revolver, the girl slowly raised It to her right temple. tem-ple. The horror of the situation forced from her n scream that awoke the I'nrkers, but her nerve did not fall. In nn agonlrcd torn; shn said, "James, I am coming to meet you!" nnd discharged dis-charged the revolver that sent a bullet through her brain. She fell dead at tho feet of the friends who rushed from their bedroom nt tho sound. The girl's parents were Informed of her Oct, and they were too allocked to speak for somo time, but when they had had time to think they asked that Hay be searched for. A policeman was sent to llnd him, and his search list hlin to the home of Hay's sister. I'ass lug through the gateway, the policeman police-man stumbled over the bodj It was the opinion of the physician called that death had taken place about four hours before It was then 8 0. m., and there was no difficulty In Kuesslni; that the pair died together In widely separated portions of thu town hb tho clocks chimed the hour at which they laid agreed to leave tho world. BBBBBBBIBBBBEBBBBBBH |