STRANGE SUICIDE

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d by a few hundreds. Mr. Clarence Bain is entitled to great credit for his prompt action in throwing out the blazing lamp, which still contained a large quantity of oil, which would have added fresh fuel and fury to the flame and have caused much greater loss than it did. From the April 10, 1891, Issue of The Enterprise STRANGE SUICIDE Corporal A. M. Batson, of troupe G, 2nd cavalry, stationed at Fort Stanton, was in Albu- querque yesterday enroute to Fort Wingate to report before a board of officers for examina- tion for promotion. He brought particulars of a sad double suicide at Nogales last Saturday evening of a Miss Higgles, employed as gov- erness on the V V ranch, and a friend, a Mrs. Doyle, who was also living on the ranch. Both ladies were young and beautiful, and both had at one time occupied a much better station in ( 13 ) life, but of what character is not known. They were missed at supper time, and a search being instituted were found a short distance from the house in rear of a corral, locked in each others arms, and dead. In the right hand of each was a revolver, while a bullet hole through the heart of each, left no room for doubt as to the cause of death. They had evidently shot each other. A BIT OF MULE LORE