The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-09-28
WANTED TO
KILL HERSELF
Caroline Wanted to Shuttle of This
Mortal Coil But Daddy ingram
Wouldn't lie. Her.

HouLT, W. Va. Sept. 2s.-This
village is very sleepy place but we
sometimes manage to have something
going on. Tuesday night the some.
thing took the form Of what might
have been tragedy, but was probably
more nearly comedy, to the amuse.
ment Of some and the evident disgust
of others. The principal actors were
Caroline Arbogast, Phinneas Flowers
and Lorenzo Ingram.
To go back to the beginning, last
Saturday week being payday on the
work at the B. and o. bridge being
built here by the Clements Company
OF Philadelphia, Caroline, who was
cooking for boarding place here for
the Clements Co., went to town and
stocked up most too heavy on tho
grade of bug juice7 Fairmpnt is IA.
nous for, the result being that she lay
for several days in drunken stupor.
Finally Superintendent Brown got
tired of this sort Of thing and ordered
her to leave. Phin. Flowers, fore.
man on the grading from the bridge
to East Park, said she could come in
his house till she could navigate. For
few days past She has frayed and;
gone on and claimed! she was burning
up inside and said she had taken some
carbolic acid. A doctor from Rives.
vile who examined her said she had
evidently swallowed something which
had taken the skin off her throat, but
then there is not much difference be.
tween carbolic acid and some OF the
grades of rot-gut sold at Fairmont
Tuesday evening she became vio-
lent and ran down the bank into the
river but Flowers family drew her
back and took her in and Flowers
went after Daddy Ingram who
weighs about 200 and strong to boot,
and they we're kept busy, holding her
4 till eleven o'clock. She tried to run
down the bank into the river but
Daddy caught her and tried to take
her back when she lay down fiat on
the ground and would not bulge. She
informed Daddy that she meant to
kill herself but Daddy" advised her
in friendly way not to do It as life
had many Joys yet. He told her there
was lots going on in the world yet to
make life interesting. They were
building big bridge here, Fairmont
was putting up lots OF new buildings
and making new street car line and
1t was worth living for just to see
what would be done next. But none
of these things seemed to interest
Caroline. Finally, after struggle
in which the railing was torn off the
porch she was got in the house and
the door fastened. Now the excite
ment begun She threw a lump of
coal at Daddy" and chair at his
wife. When Mrs. ingram in response
to her request offered her a cup OF
water she threw cup and water at
Mrs. Ingram's head. She lay on the
floor in a disheveled condition. She
shrieked; she kicked her heels on the
floor.
Her husband had left her last week
and gone to town~to work, taking, SO
she claimed, all the money with him.
They did not agree by any means. She
told the neighbors that he was a
tough case and he told them that she
was holy terror and the neighbors
we're inclined to think both were
telling the truth n
| Finally Flowers went to town and
brought Arbogast down on the .
o'clock train and after his arrival she
became calm enough that all could
go TO bed at eleven o'clock.
i Wednesday morning Arbogast put
her on the seven o'clock train and
took her to town. Whether he will
have her taken to the bug house or
not, no one knows and no one seems
to care SO he keeps her away from
Hoult. Everybody thinks that she
is possessed with a large chunk of the
spirit Of his Satanic Majesty. and are
glad to be well rid OF her.
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