Kept Promise To
Allow Suicide
Of Her Sister
MEDIA, Pa., OPI — “I kept my
promise.”
With these words, spoken quiet
ly and without emotion, white
haired spinster Ann Eldredge, 71,
told a Delaware County coroner’s
jury why she allowed her 77
year-old sister, Irene, to take a
lethal dose of sleeping pills last
October 16.
The jury called Irene’s death
homicide. A judge dismissed the
charge against her sister.
Anne told how her sister, afflic
ted by severe headaches, at
tempted to take her life four
years ago. On that occasion, Anne
had her rushed to a hospital in
time to save her.
“She often rebuked me for do
ing that and she made me prom
ise not to do it again. I kept my
promise.”
The sisters, retired school teach
ers, lived together in nearby Mid
dletown Township. Last month.
Miss Eldredge testified, her sis
ter said, “I cannot endure this
pain any longer. I am going to
take my own life.”
“I told her it was her life if
that was what she wanted to do,”
said Miss Eldredge.
She told the jury how it came
about:
Irene took a large quantity of
sleeping pills. The sisters kissed.
“Now I am going to my mother
a"^ a beautiful restful sleep.”
said Irene as she settled back on
the bed.
Anne went into the next room
and tried to read.
“I was unable to,” she said. “I
thought of nothing but my sister.
About 8:30 I returned and held a
mirror in front of my sister’s nos
trils. I found she was not living.”
The judge said he couldn’t “see
any homicide in this case. There
might have been negligence. I
don’t think there was a wilful
criminal act.
“The defendant is discharged.”
Mrs. Wilbur Tweet, who has
been here from Teller with her
. daughters for tonsillectomies, was
to return home today.
NOTICE
Pursuant to an Order of Court
entered on the 17th Day of No
vember, A.D. 1958, Notice Is Here-,
, by Given that a General Term of
the District Court, Second Divi
sion, District of Alaska, will be
held in the Court House at Nom^
in said District and Division, com
mencing at the hour of 10:00
o'clock A.M. Friday, January 2,
1959, and to continue thereafter
according to the further orders
of the Court.
Given under my hand and with
the Court's seal affixed this 24th
Day of November, A.D. 1958.
(Seal)
J. M. KRONINGER,
Clerk of the United States
District Court for the
District of Alaska, Sec
ond Division.
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Expects Rough
Parley With Russ
TOKYO, — Japanese Fish
ery experts anticipated rougher
sailing ift forthcoming negotia
tions with the Soviet Union on
next year’s salmon Catch in So
viet controlled waters than in the
recent Japan-Canada-U. S. con
ference.
The experts held their first
meeting Friday in preparation
for the talks opening here Jan
uary 12.
Nihon Keizai, Japan’s leading
economic daily, said the Soviets’
North Pacific salmon catch this
year is 'believed to have fallen
to less than 100,000 tons, far short
of the Soviet 120,000 ton target.
“Under the circumstances, the
Soviet Union will demand limit
ing Japan’s catch next year to
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110,000 tons this year.
The Soviets control waters near
the Kuriles, Sakhalin and off the
Siberian Coast. And they closed
the Okhotsk Sea, immediately
north of Japan, to fishing as of
January 1, 1959.
The Japan-Canada-iU. S. Fish
ery Conference ended here No
verber 10.
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ployed. That is true regard-1
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