The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1901-01-23
THEY ARE NOT MURDERERS
Girl Supposed to Have Been
Killed is Found.
RAN AWAY FROM HOME
Ida Guyon Went TO Cadott and was
Amused at Accounts of Arrest
of Her Mother.

Chippewa Falls, Wis, Jan. 19.--[Spe-
are not murderers.
Thursday evening Frank Zimmerman
Of Cadott telephoned w. M. Bowe
attorney for the defense in the
Guyon murder case, that he sus-
pected living there to be the missing
ida Guyon. Mr.. Bowe went to Cadott
yesterday and ended the sensational case
by finding the supposed victim alive and
well, in the employ OF Eugene Martins
family, where she has been living under
an assumed name since December Is.
She made sworn statement before JUS
tlce Lockwood, giving history of her
life before and since running away, from
which it appears that Ida was q way
ward girl much given to lying.
Life was Too Slow.
Life in Lafayette was too slow for her
and she decided to try her luck in Eau
Claire, but finding that life in that city
was not at all she expected, she went
TO CadOtt where she says she is content
to remain. She has derived some amuse-
ment from reading about the legal pro-
ceedlngS against her alleged murderers
Her statement agrees substantially with
the evidence given by Mrs. Guyon in
the municipal court. She says she is
about hfteen years old. Mrs. GuyOn
adopted her when she was eight, since
which time she has lived on the farm. She
went to school only one term and refused
TO go any longer because the children
abused her and made remarks rejecting
on her ancestry Her adopted mother
taught her to read and write and
provided well for her. Money was
gwen her at times and once gold
ring. She says that sometimes she would
lie ana not 40 things right and her moth
er would whip her. She ran away twice
before, going once to Mr.. Frederick's and
once to Mr.. Diedrich's. She never told
any OF the neighbOrs she was abused or
complained TO them. The reason she
gives Tor running away is that she was
urea OF hVlng on the farm and not seeing
any6ody. She blames Mrs Guyon for
her leniency in scolding instead Of wbin-
ping her for lying.
Tells Why She Ran Away.
She says that on Saturday. December
o nef mother and Davis started for town
IN the afternoon As soon as they were
gone she harnessed the horses and
hltched them to single cutter and Went
out for a drive. The horses ran away
and threw her out
The ran after and caught them and put
them In the barn. She was afraid her
mother and Davis would be angry and
she was tired Of living there, so she de-
clded to run away. She took a can of
peaches and some bread and burrowed
under the hay in the barn where she
stayed till Monday noon. She heard
them calling for her, but did not answer.
AFTER they left for town Monday she
broke into the house and took some cloth
ing and started for Eau Claire going by
way of the main road to the cemetery
where she caught the car. She remained
IN Eau Claire two days and then went
to Cadott
She read in the papers about her moth
ers arrest and was fond of talking about
the case, but the members of the family
had no suspicion that she was the al
legged victim
She accused her adopted mother Of cru
city and when cautioned by the Justice
to tell the truth she withdrew the charge
and said it was not true
This ends the celebrated murder case.
The charge originated in neighborhood
gossip.