Miss Higgles (governess, V V Ranch, 1891 suicide)
Each woman held a revolver in her right hand, and each had a bullet hole through the heart, indicating they had shot each other [1]. Both were described as young and beautiful, and both had once occupied a much better station in life, though the nature of that station was not known [1].
Sources
- Silver City Enterprise — 1891 (full OCR, Internet Archive) — 1891-04-10 (1891)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 pr…