BEDFORD MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, DEC. 27, 1901 Middlesboro, Ky., Dec. 23. – Charles Preston, about thirty years old, took little Jessie Marion sleigh riding on Powell river across the Cumberland Mountains. The ice gave way and the girl was drowned. Preston tried manfully to save the girl, and becoming crazed over the matter, he went to the child' mother and committed suicide in her presence.