People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1895 — CORPSES OF GIRLS FOUND. [ARTICLE]

CORPSES OF GIRLS FOUND.

Is Thought One Committed Suicide After Drowning Her Sister. Oregon, Mo., May 22. —The bodies of both the Chambers girls drowned in the Missouri river at Bartlett, lowa, about ten days ago have been found. The body of Charlotte, aged 17, was caught by Dan Ellishire, a fisherman, in his net, and the body of the 10-year-old girl was caught about thirty miles south of here. These girls were half sisters, both daughters of C. M. Cham>bers, living near Bartlett; lowa, and the younger was a daughter of Mrs. Wolfenberger of this city, who formerly was C. M. Chambers’ wife. The girls were very mysteriously drowned, but their friends think the older girl drowned her sister and then committed suicide. Charlotte’s clothing w’as found securely pinned together near the knees, and the sleeves of her dress were securely pinned to her shoulders, indicating either that she had thus secured them herself to avoid involutarily escaping death when she should make the fatal leap into the water, or else that she was the victim Of foul play.