The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-02
With Her Three-Year-Old Daughter
She Had Walked All the Way
from Sunman, Ind.
WERE F00Ts0RE AND WEARY
STORY OF ACUTE SUFFERING TOLD
BY THE WOMAN.
She Is Her Way to an Uncle at
observation-disclosures by q Drunk
en- Husband.

Tired and footsore, with faces and hands
burned red by the scorching sun. Mrs. Alice
Carver and her three-year-old daughter,
Ina May. dragged themselves into the po-
lice station last night, at o'clock. and the
woman, in voice weak from exhaustion,
asked humbly for shelter for herself and
child over night. She said they were on
their way to Noblesville. where they would
be cared for by relatives, but had walked
from Sunman, Ind, and were too tired to
go further without resting.
Mrs. Carver's story is that of an unfor-
marry a drunkard. She was married in
1894 to Vergil Carver, an iron molder, and
they had lived together but a year until
his desire for drink asserted itself, and the
little home was soon ruined The wife was
compelled to take in washing in the village
where they lived to support herself and
three children, while the husband. who
should have been the provider, recklessly
spent all his money for intoxicants. and
often took from the hands of the woman he
once vowed to care for and protect money
that she had. saved to meet the current
expenses of the family. For nine years she
stood his abuse, and on Jan. Is this year
left him. and, taking her three children
with her, went to a neighboring farm
house. where she worked for their support.
Several days later, when she awoke in the
morning and went into the room where her
children slept, she was Mortified to find her
| two eldest daughters missing from their
beds. No trace was found of them for
| weeks, but at last ii was learned that the
| father had climbed into the house In the
night, carried the little girls to the train
| he had secured employment at his trade.
The police at Knightstown were notified,
but before they could arrest the man he,
| with the children, had left the country,
since.
WORKED ON A FARM.
Mrs. Carver since then has been working
| on the farm for the board of herself and
| one daughter, but a week ago became Ill
and wrote to her uncle a farmer near
| Noblesville, who raised her from a child,
| and asking him to take her daughter and
self into his home. In a day or so she re-
ceived a card from him telling her to come
on at once. Having no money and being
| too proud to ask for aid. she, with her
three-year-old babe. started last Monday
| TO walk to Noblesville.
For many weary miles the poor woman
| was compelled to carry her child, who was
| crying from fatigue and hunger, in addi-
| ton to the heavy bundle of household
| effects, which, being all the property she
owned in the world, she wished to take
with her.
The woman was almost exhausted when
| she stepped inside the police station door
and the desk sergeant, noticing her condi-
ton, called the matron, who took charge of
| the destitute woman and her crying child
| for the night The shoes of the weary pair
were worn through on the bottoms and
their feet were bleeding and bruised from
| the constant contact with the stones on the
road.
A collection was taken up at the police
station from the members of the committee,
| who are conducting the Logsdon investi-
CATION, and the woman and her child are
now assured of passage from here to No
| blesville on the train and good break
| fast this morning.