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Show JUMPS INTO RIVER IN FIT OF REMORSE Pittsburg, Julv 22.--Fashionable Mount Chateau, tho mountain resort near Morgantown, W. Va awoko this morning to the biggest sensation the exclushe little villa ever has experienced. experi-enced. Miss Nellie Hughes, the 1G-3'ear-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Hughes of Monessen, waKccl from a vacant cottage and af ter removing her shoes, jumped Into the river. A number of. men cottagers cottag-ers who wore fishing near, tried to rescue- the girl, but alio was swept out from shore by tho swift current and carried over tho dam. Her body was recovered two hours later. When the girl's mother was notified she collapsed and was taken to the hospital. Late last night Miss Hughes was seen walking along tho river drive with a young man. They went toward a vacant cottage from which they emerged this morning. Whether the girl was drugged and kept there all night or whether she went willingly willing-ly is not known. Tho coroner's physician phy-sician Intimates ho haa found nothing In the girl's stomach to JaBtlfy the drug theory. Nellie Hughes was pretty and bore i good reputation. She had been one of the popular girls of the cottage social so-cial life this season. She was stopping stop-ping at the cottage of her slBter, Mrs. James Raub, The p'olico havo sought in vain all day to establish the Identity Iden-tity of the young man who was with Miss Hughes last night |