The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-12
GIRL HURLS ACID
IN LOVERS FACE
Minerva Hall WreakS Terrible
Vengeance on Ike Ryan,
Her Alleged Betrayer.
MAN DISFIGURED FOR LIFE
PHYSICIAN SAYS HIS EYESIGHT
WILL BE SAVED.
MAN DISFIGURED FOR LIFE

Goaded to frenzy by the fact that
| the man she loved, to whom she had
| given all that a woman can give.
would not marry her or pity her con-
! dition, Miss Minerva Hall sought VEN
veance for the wrongs which she said
/ had been done her by Ike" Ryan. of
/ $3.50 Washington street. formerly Il
driver for the Greenewald Furniture
| company. Finding Ryan in rear room
of The Century saloon. 325 South State
/ street, Miss Hall emptied a glass fill
ed with carbolic acid into his face. He
was terribly burned and disfigured. At
| first IL was Thought that he mad lost
/ the sight of both his eyes. but DIR. G.
| NJ. Benedict, who attended the young
man, says that his eyesight will prob
| ably be saved.
| But Ryan. who was a handsome fell
/ low, may have to go through life with
a face hideously SCARED.
Ryan is % years old, and is one of
the sons of John Ryan. teamster en-
plOyed by the II. Wagner Brewing
company. Miss Hall is 20 years old.
Her parents live in TOoele county. For
some time past she has earned a living
by working for the Salt Lake Clean
ing company.
Her story is pathetic one, She
says that she came to Salt Lake five
years ago to earn a living. Soon after
coming here, she met Ryan and fell in
love with him. He, too, seemed to
yield to the tender passion. The girl
says he promised to marry her. This
promise was not kept.
Girls Love Survives.
The girl went back to TOoele county
to hide her shame and find home for
her child. But she continued to love
Ryan and returned to Salt Lake to be
with him. She claims that she con-
stantly~ begged him to marry her.
About year ago, growing despond-
ent because he would not yield to her
supplicatiOns, she attempted to drown
herself in the Jordan river, but was
dragged from the water. AS soon as
she recovered from the effects of the
submersiOn in the chilly water, she
again returned to Ryan. hoping against
hope that he would make her his wife.
At the lodging house at 70 South
State street where both were known.
il was supposed that they were mar
ried and that they were too poor to
maintain a home of their own. 1t was
understood that Ryan lived at the
home of his father and that the girl
worked as a domestic in a private fam
lily. At the lodging house the girl was
known as Mrs. Ryan. The girls fire.
quent bursts of frantic weeping when
she parted from Ryan or when he was
tardy in keeping an appointment, were
attributed to unreasonable jealousy or
hysterical condition of mind. 1t was
not suspected that the girl was con-
sumed with the misery of her wretched
condition.
Have Violent Quarrel.
Mss Hall asserts that Ryan on Nov.
promised to marry her and put an
end to her long suffering, but that on
the day set for the wedding he went
duck hunting.
On Sunday night, when the couple
met at the South State street rendez-
vous, the girl was hysterical and re-
proachful. 1t is not known what pass
ed between them when they parted in
the morning, but 1t is understood that
they quarreled violently and at the
door went different ways.
Monday the girl brooded over her
troubles and late in the afternoon. aft
er hiding a bottle of carbolic acid I'M
der her cloak, went to the Century bar,
in South State street, where she found
Ryan in a card room, drinking with
William Gray and Frank Soils. She
entered the room and took a glass from
the table. Retiring to a corner, she
poured the contents of the bottle of
carbolic acid into the glass. Then, ad-
vancing to where Ryan sat in laugh
ing conversation with the other men,
she dashed the acid into his face. He
sprang from his-seat with a cry Of
agony, then fell back into his chair
How could you do it?'' he gasped.
Don't dare ask me that" cried the
girl. You know, you know"
Girl Seems Dazed.
She seemed dazed and CROPPED her
way out of the saloon and across the
street, where she was arrested by Po-
liceman Doty.
Ryan's face was terribly burned. IL
seemed impossible that his eyesight
could be preserved, but after examin-
ing his eyes, DR.. Benedict stated that
there was little danger of blindness re-
sulting from the girls act.
Miss Hall, after being locked in the
city Jail, forgot all of her own trou-
bles and fell into paroxysm of poign-
ant grief over the injury she had done
the man she loved. When she was told
that there was nc danger of his losing
his eyesight she clasped her hands and
shed tears of JOY.
No charge has been entered against
Miss Hall. If Ryan refuses to appear
to prosecute her today, she will be re-