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- North Tonawanda NY Evening News - 3/22/1932
The police today were conducting
an intensive investigation in
an attempt to secure trace of Mrs
Mildred Briggs, 29 years old, and
her daughter, Alice, four years old,
and son, David, 1 1-2 years old,
missing from their home at 31
1-2 Wall street since 9 o'clock yesterday
morning.
Edward Briggs, husband of the
missing woman, sought the services
of the police late last night.
having exhausted efforts to locate
her.
The husband told the police that
he feared his wife had committed
suicide, as she Had made threats
recently to end her life. It was
feared, the police said, that if the
woman committed suicide she likely
intended the same fate for her
children.
Seen Going Toward Main Street
Neighbors reported that Mrs.
Briggs and her children were seen
crossing a lot near their home.
going toward Main street. Tlie
police later learned that the woman
and her children boarded a
Niagara Falls bound high speed
trolley car at the Ward road station
in the outskirts of the city
later in the morning.
Mrs. Briggs has been in poor
j health for some time.
Police Chief George C. Marohn
and Ptrolman Herburt Root went
to Niagara Falls after learning
that Mrs. Briggs and her children
boarded a car bound for that city.
There they learned that the woman
and children were seen in the
waiting room where the mother
purchased some candy for the
youngsters, The police also learned
that they were seen passing a
restaurant on Falls street.
The Falls police assisted Chief
Marohn and Officer Root and questioned
the state reservation police
and attendants at the bridge crossing
the gorge there but failed to
find any further trace of the missing
trio.
ALSO
North Tonawanda NY Evening News - 4/28/1932
The family of Mrs. Mildred
Briggs, who disappeared from her
home at 311-2 Wall street on
March 21, taking her four-year-
old daughter, Alice, and year and
a half-old son, David, has given
up hope of recovering their bodies
believed to have gone over the
American Falls on the day the
trio left Tonawanda.
Rewards were offered in the
hope that persons might be spurred
to give greater attention to
the movement tq recover the bodies
from the lower part of the
Niagara river before they worn
swept into Lake Ontario and out
of reach of searching parties.
"Red" Hill of Niagara Falls, Ont.
whose daring exploits on the Niagara
river recommended him to
the Briggs family made a special
effort at the request of the woman's
husband, Edward Briggs.
to find the bodies.
Police Chief George C. Marohn
said today that he and others
who have Been working on the
cate sre firmly of the belief that
the bodies were carried down the
river into the lake by the heavy
ice that filled the Niagara after
the woman and her children went
to their deaths over the cataract
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