The Dermott News

CARBON MONOXIDE KILLS LOVERS IN CAR

Missing Sweethearts Found Dead in Cemetery.

Jonesville, Mich.-Two high school sweethearts, missing for three days, were found dead in an automobile near here.

The two, Lowell Durfey, sixteen, and Cecile Nye, seventeen, students at the Jonesville high school, were found dead in each other's arms in a cemetery only 20 rods from the girl's home.

Death was apparently due to carbon monoxide poisoning. The fumes apparently had asphyxiated them as they parked for a good-night embrace with the motor running. The cemetery is in a glen screened from the road.

Both were athletes and had started for home in Durfey's car after attending a basketball banquet in the school cafeteria early in the evening. It was not until the following day that any anxiety was felt for their safety.

Then it was supposed that they had eloped, as they were known to be eager for an early marriage.

Search, however, was fruitless and efforts to find them handicapped by a blizzard.

Emory Nye, father of Cecile, found them together in the closed automobile when he was prompted to enter the cemetery in passing on the way to town.

"There was no mark of violence on either body," declared Coroner Miller.

Miss Nye was known as one of the most beautiful girls in the school, and was a member of the girls' basketball team.