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Show SUICIDE PACT OF I IHffl YOUNG GIRLS Hold Pistols at Each Other's Temples and Fire Fatal if Shots. PORTSMOUTH, N H ., March 22. Two young womnn held revolvers at H each other's temples .md fired, both nr dropping dead. In a booth at the Ports- mouth cafe tonight They had prevl-C prevl-C oupIv registered at the Foekingham rp hotel as Athel Stanton and Rose King aj of Wellesley, Mass. In a traveling bag left at the hotel br the King girl was a letter telling of an agreement between the two glrln r to commit suicide and asking that they be buried together. The let ( r, I signed "Peggy." was address to Mrs. . E. L. Sapulding. Newton Centre, Mass. i The police communicated with Mrs. r Ppaulding and learned that "Rose King" was her daughter A note addressed to C. S. Malsburv. Johnson building, Cincinnati, wae ' found in the Stanton girl's bag. The bag also contained a ticket to Well-j Well-j esley and a small amount of change. The girls, each about 20 years of age, had been jn the booth for more than two hours before other diners were startled to hear two shots. They rushed to the booth and found the f sirls hmg dead on the floor. " The authorities late tonight had been unable to establish the identity or residence of the girl calling herself her-self Ethel Stanton. It was learned later that fh"- note found in Miss Spaulding's bag wa ': signed "Peggy" and "Ethel." Its text was not made public The police said the note declared that the girls "bad to die," that "it was better tha' they should do so," and expressed express-ed the hope that "all would meet in a better world." It gave no definite reason rea-son for their act. The girls came to this city on Wednesday Wed-nesday afternoon and spent the nigh' at the Rockingham They were well I dressed but had little luggage. Ap-I Ap-I parentlv they had plenty of money. I They breakfasted in the room this morning and spent the entire day II there Early in the evening they went to the cafe They chose a booth at the end of the room farthest from the entrance en-trance and ate ihcir dinner leisurely After finishing their meal they remained re-mained in tne booth, conversing earn-! j astly. Several times they called a waiter and ordered black coffee, which f i they drank Shortly before n o'clock, when few I i other persons remained in the cafe, I j two shots rang out Walters and diners found the girls' bodies each I with a bullet hole in the head In the I Stanton girl's hand was clutched a .32-caliber .32-caliber revolver A revolver of 22-caliber 22-caliber lay beside Miss Spaulding's body ' What was at first understood to be a note addressed to Mr. Malsbury was later found to be simply a scribbling I request to notify him ol the girl's death CINCINNATI, ihi(. March 22 Judge Malsbury when seen at his home here late tonight said he was I the executor of Ethel Stanton's moth-lfi j r-r's estate. Ethel Stanton's father I ia J. L. Stanton, city passenger agent II of the Rock Island railroad, with head-! H quarters at Los Angeles According jl to Judge Malshurv, Stanton divorced j?( his wife and she married F. A. Snider, I a manufacturer of Erie, Pa. Judge II Malsbury said Mrs Snider was later j I killed in an automobile accident. ni i |