WOULD-BE SUICIDES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10153, 24 December 1910, Page 6

WOULD-BE SUICIDES.

"THE WOMAN TEMPTED ME."

Bound together with two steel chains and loft of rope, and weighted with a valise filled with sand, Briee Woinmack, a wealthy Missouri farmer, father of five children, and Airs Alollie Anderson jumped from a skiff into the Alississipi River ,near St. Louis. Through the bravery of James Landers the couple were rescued. When Landers reached them they drifted half a mile, clinging to the , rowlocks of the skiff from which they had jumped. Wommack is in gaol, charged with the theft of the skiff from which he and the woman leaped. Airs Anderson is at the City Hospital, and it is feared that the nervous shock has overbalanced her reason. The couple had carefully planned to kill themselves, and bury their bodies and all evidences of their fate at the bottom of the river. Tho details had been gone over carefully before they left St. Louis. After sinking twice, Airs Anderson reversed her decision that death with Wommack was better than life without him, cried for help, and grasped a rowlock of the boat. Supporting the woman to whom he was bound with one. arm, s\nd clinging to the drifting'boat with tho other, Wommack attempted to argue Airs Anderson into consummating their attempt at suicide. "Will you agree to break off our relation's and leave me alone and repent, and live as a decent woman should r" Wommack told the police he demanded. Not until choked and half drowned, and Airs Anderson had promised to leave him free to return to his wife and children on his farm, would Wommack attempt to save their lives. Airs Anderson is a Reno divorcee, and Wommack claimed that her constant atention to him entangled his domestic life and made Airs Wommack very bitter. "1 told Anderson I wanted to leave her," said Wommack, "and then she said she would kill herself. I said if one died the other must, and so we carefully planned suicide. We jumped from the boat together."—New York correspondent of the Daily Telegraph (London).