The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-05-06
WOULD CUT
THEIR THROATS
Two Little Girls Made Dire
full Threats to Police Matron
AFTER A LONG SEARCH
Lulu and Dutch Baxter Were
Located.

Screaming, crying, pulling and scratch
ing, and declaring that they would ccs
their threats if they could get a knife,
Lulu Baxter. 10 years old, and Dutch"
Baxter, p years old. were taken in charge
by Police Matron Ella Glenn Shields and
Officer Mills Sunday night about .
o'clock. The TWO children made enough
racket to wake the dead. and they con
siderably disturbed the peace and quiet Of
the neighborhood about Thirteenth street
and Wabash avenue on that quiet sun
day evening.
These two girls live with their mother
at 41S North Main street. They have
| been thrown into bad company number
OF times. and were developing into very
bad little girls, but were Of such d tender
age that the police matrOn and probate
/ judge thought that if sent to the Indus
! trial school they would soon forget all
| their naughtiness and become women in
the true meaning of the word; so they de-
cided to bring the girls before the pro-
bate court
The warrants were sworn out last
Thursday, and that evening Mrs. Shields
and policeman went TO the home u set
the girls. They passed the children play
ing on the sidewalk and stairs and went
on to the rooms of the mother The moth
or said the children were outside. and
when the minions of the law walked out
side the children had disappeared as if
the earth had swallowed them. Not
sign of the children could be found. None
Of the people on the street had seen
them slip away or where they went. Mrs.
Shields and her escort gave UP the chase,
defeated once, but determined TO win.
Mrs. Shields looked in vain for the
children for two days and finally found
trace of them. She followed her clue
and finally located the children, late Sun
day evening. in an old tumble-down,
vacant house between Thirteenth and
Fourteenth streets on Wabash avenue.
Late in the evening she hunted up Officer
Mills and drove TO the place and pushed
open the door. Not child was in sight.
They hunted around the building ard
finally found the two little girls crouched
down behind some boards and rags in
one corner Of the room. They pulled the
yDuHESlciS Out ana llGu the 4Lu began.
The children declared they would not
go with the police matron. They tried to
scratch her and the officer and pulled
with might and main to get away, but the
two held the children with a firm grasp
and in spite of their yells marched them
to the buggy and then to place where
they could be kept in safety. The young
sters said they would commit suicide
and they seemed to think that the only
way TO do this deed was to cut their
threats. and they screamed for a knife.
Paying no attention to their entreaties
and vicious attacks. the matron and the
big policeman took the two little girls
away. and they viii come UP before the
probate judge this afternoon.
The children We're taken to the house
by some man in wagon and left all
alone supposing that they were COM
pletely hidden from the eyes of the po-
lice matron. They would say nothing
about who brought them things 10 eat
or drink. but said that they We're there to
keep the officers from finding them and
sending them away to the industrial
school.