The Savannah morning news., 1901-04-17
RETURNED TO HER PARENTS.
About to Commit Suicide a Young
Girl Was Saved and Sent to Her
Home.

ABDUL 10 Commit suicide 1OunS
Girl Was Saved and Sent to Her
Home.
Saved from suicides grave. a pretty
Hyear-old girl returned to her home and
parents in Tattnall county yesterday. sad
der but wiser She had pictured a life of
ease and comfort in the city, with hand
some gowns and servants 40 wait upon
her
Only a week of contentment and her
idol was shattered, and she found herself
deserted and almost penniless. In
strange place and on the point of taking
poison, the bottle containing the deadly
draught was snatched from her hand by
the keeper of an Eastside place. The man
who saved the girls life Is proprietor of
resort, but his heart is not of stone.
He gave her words of encouragement and
ticket to return to her fathers farm.
where she will have time 40 think of her
folly. This in brief is the story of the
girl, known for three days as Florence
Foster.
The girls downfall is the old story of
woman's weakness and mans duplicity.
The country girl with the bloom of health
on her cheeks was an easy victim for
the deep and designing seducer. He met
her in the little township and bewildered
her with his talk and pictures of city
life. She was plainly clad and he would
dress her like princess. He would give
her jewels and when she became his wife,
she would be a queen in all but name.
Such promises dazzed her and with Wis
ions of pleasure from morning till night.
instead of having, to churn butter and
feed chickens, she consented to come to
the city.
AS is always the case, she was warned
not to tell her parents of her intentions,
but to pack up her few calico dresses and
steal away under the cover of darkness.
| She trusted implicitly and never for a
moment doubted that the man who had
| promised TO care for her would do all that
he promised. Without a line; of explana
ton to the aged parents, who had guard
cd and watched over her so carefully.
she boarded the train, for the first time
alone in her life, and came to Savannah.
True to his word, the stranger met her
at the depot, and was as agreeable as the
day upon which they first met. She was
taken in cab to a boarding house with
the man she believed was soon to be her
husband. The rest of the story is as
common man himself.
One week passed and the stranger disap-
peared. The girl anXiously awaited his
return, and for the first time she paused
to think. He had told her nothing of
| himself or his family, and it suddenly
dawned upon her that she had been
duped. She calmly realized her position.
| without a friend to advise her, and with
| thoughts of an angry and obstinate father
| there was but one hope for relief. She
would hide her sin in death.
| With a broken heart and no thought of
| the always open arms of a mother, she
| took the last quarter from her purse and
went into the street. Half of the money
| went into the tin of the first drug store
| for laudanum. Her eyes were red from
crying, and it was not for the drug clerk
! to presume that the pain was caused by
! her own shame. The same story
was told at the second place, and she
| was on the brink of another world. With
burning brow ana quivering lips she was
preparing to swallow that which sepa-
rated her from the great beyond, when
| the hard hand of man who lives on the
| Wickedness of woman, wrenched the poi
son from her grasp. She tainted and was
| taken to his house. There she told her
! story and again repeated it to the police,
| hen they were called upon to make an
| investigation. She had learned a bitter
| lesson and promised to return home and
| beg forgiveness. Her identity is safe In
| hands of the police, and unless she tells
her own story, her parents will never
! know that she is numbered on the long
| list of mans victims.