The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-27
SHE IS A DEGENERATE
Def1es All Efforts to Make Her
Respectable.
TRIED TO COMMIT SUICIDE
Grace Potter Again Locked Up In the
City Jail-Attempted TO Take a Dose
OF Carboiic Acid-she Will Be
Sent to Helena.

Grace Potter. the 15-year-old degenerate.
who dehes all the efforts of her well.
wishers to make her a respectable MEM
her of society. is again In the custody of
the police. She will not he given another
opportunity to behave herself Of her own
v~olition. but will be put where she will
he required to. Captain and Mrs. MoPher-
son of the Associated Charities home and
the Ladies' society have given up all hope
of being able to save the girl from her
vicious inclinations and will send her TO
ena, where II is hoped she may be taught
to see the folly of her determination to GO
to the bad.
When taken into custody yesterday the
girl was greatly put out and gave an ex-
hibition OF her viciousness by trying 10
commit suicide by taking carbollc acid.
She was prevented from doing so and was
locked up at the city Jail.
Police Officer McolllIc met the girl on
Park street yesterday and took her to the
station. She admitted to the officers that
she had been living with a variety theater
waiter named ii. J.. Matveia I'm a vile
lodging house at l3 East Gaiens street,
and asked to be allowed to 20 there TO
get her clothes. She was allowed to 60 in
with an officer. but IL transpired
that the request was only a ruse. and
what followed Indicated that she had pre-
viously made up her mind TO make away
with herself IL not allowed to go on with
the abandoned life she had determined to
lead. AT the room she got a bottle of car
bolic acid she had previously procured and
on the way back she attempted 10 swal-
low the contents of the bottle, but 10 was
knocked from her hands before any OF
the fluid had passed her lips. But for the
prompt action of her escort she would
have accomplished her purpose. as she
got the bottle to her mouth and her under
lip was burned quite severely by the acid
spilling when the bottle was knocked
from her rand. She was taken back TO
jail and looked up.
During the day Captain Mcpherson tele-
graphed TO the House Of the Good Shep-
herd at Helena and asked II the girl
would be admitted. He received a favora-
bic reply and she will he taken to Helena
to-day by Chief of Police Mulholland.
The girl IL bound and determined to lead
a life OF shame and Is utterly depraved.
She declares she will not stay at the
House of the Good Shepherd, but will get
away somehow. To an officer she said:
Il have made up my mind to lead that
life and I'm going to do IT. ] am going
to wear some of those fine dresses you
see on the girls I'm Mercury street"
Four times charitable people have tried
TO bring the girl up right, but each time
she has run away from the home given
her and tried to establish herself In the
bad lands. She told the officers yesterday
that the man she was living with was
making arrangements to rent a place for
her I'm Galena street.
The girl displayed a fertile mind in her
efforts to thwart the intentions of those
who would prevent her from going to
ruin Gla cot a fafoU Ulasa a Uaa
not taken by the police. and whose name
she said she did not know herself, TO say
he wanted TO marry her. hoping to act
away, and the fellow really professed a
desire to marry her. but the unholy al
lance will not be permitted and the girl
will go TO Helena.
The police last evening arrested Mat
veia, the man who had been living with
the girl. and he will be prosecuted. They
are also looking for another young man
who is said to have had u hand In her
ruin. Matveia is held at the county jail.