The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-16
TAKE POISON
 TO ENDALIVES Two Women Attempt to Commit Suicide. WERE DARED TO DRINK POISON Hard Work by Police and Physi- clan Pulls Them Through. Left Note With Directions For Dispo- sition of Their Bodies-Had
 Been Drinking Heavily Dur-
 ing the Night.
WERE DARED TO DRINK POISON

Just because some man had dareo them to kill themselves. two Womeh' known as Cleo Thomas, and Johnle White Harper, divided a bottle of laud- anum between them while riding Tn hack on Dexter Avenue yesterday morning, in an attempt to commit sul- eide. Their act was detected and the police notified. Officers Cloud and Sizemore arrested the women. took them to the police station and sum moned Dr. Mount who is acting city physician.
 The Harper woman was found to be in the worst condition of the two. and for a while her life hung in the bal ance. By hard work on the part o1 the physician and the police officers she was restored to consciousness and kept awake until the effects fthe poison had worn off sufficiently to war rant sending her to the intirmary. The other woman did not give so much trou- ble. After all danger had passed in her case she was first placed in a cell and later sent to the infirmary to join her companion.
 Aside from the statement that they had been dared to commit suicide. the women gave no cause for their act. They had been drinking heavily and an hour before had been seen walking on Dexter Avenue together. Just af- ter Lu6 CLOCK SlTuth lucy uioNS uP in a hack and secured some laudanum at drug store.
 The clerk at the store, suspectfng that all was not right with them, went to the door to watch them. The hack had hardly started off when he saw the bottle thrown from the window. He immediately notified the policemen. who stopped the hack, took the women out and walked them to the police sta- tion.
 On the Harper woman was found \ note. which read as follows:
 We want to be shipped to j. M. White. Montrose. Ga, and buried Tn one grave. Wire Cleo's mother at once.
 Johnnie White Harper"
 The scene at the police station will long be remembered by those who saw 1t. When the women had been restored to consciousness and had partially re- covered from the effects of the drug, there was nothing in their attitude to suggest that either was sorry for her act. On the contrary. both declared they would kill themselves at the first opportunity.
 Asked who the J M. White. of Mont rose. was. the women would not tell until they were told that a telephone message had come for them and that the sender was waiting for an answer Then the younger called out to the old CT woman that father was telephon- ing" and was promptly called a fool by the other. She insisted, however, that her father be told to send them $25 to get them out of their trouble.
 Once again the younger one begged to dfe and asked the policemen to let her have pistol. She insisted on this so often that she was handed a weapon from which all the cartridges had been taken, but she did not pull the trigger
 It was onfy after two hours of the hardest kind of work that the Harper woman was saved. Both were sent to the fnfirmary to recover from the ef- fects of the poison.