The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-08-27
BALKED IN ATTEMPT
TO KILL HERSELF
Officers Defeat Cambridge
City Girls Plan Before
Making Arrest.
OUTGROWTH OF CHARGES.
ELIZABETH FOSTER, ONE OF THE
GIRLS WHOSE UNSEEMLY AC-
TIONS BRING LAW DOWN UPON
HEAD-TWo GIRLS ESCAPE.

Sle, I1dL oSCdi uNPo's
sheriff and Dan Drischel, former mar
shall of Cambridge City, prevented Eli
bolc acid from a bottle she held in
her hand and from which she was at
tempting TO drink. Mashmeyer went
to Cambridge City yesterday after
noon with an affidavit to arrest the
Foster young woman and three 9TH
ers, charged with being delinquent
children" Miss Foster is twenty
years old.
She had received warning early in
the morning from Daisy Goodwin, one
of the four girls the deputy intended
to arrest. that the officer was com
ing. She had not taken the warning
and left the city, but provided herself
with a small bottle of carbolic acid
and determined to take her life upon
the arrival of the officer. She cOntin-
ued about her work at the restaurant
the same as usual. When the deputy
sheriff and Drischel entered the res
taurant, the young woman saw them.
Immediately she procured the bottle
and was about to draw the cork,
when detected by the deputy and his
assistant. They grabbed her but she
struggled resolutely to accomplish her
end. With remarkable strength she
orb off tbn h,,t ri
ed her hands over the bottle. She
broke loose and in attempting to draw
the cork, broke it off so that her own
haste ruined her chances to accom-
plish her purpose. Finding she could
do nothing else, she submitted to the
officers and was brought to the city
and placed in the Home for Friendless
Women.
Has the action of the prosecuting
attorney in the cases of Miss Foster
Nettie Dinger, Ethel and Daisy Good
win been too precipitate? At Cam
bridge City the answer is yes" but
the prosecutor believes the affidavits
were not prepared too hastily. Was
not whatever evidence the prosecutor
has been supplied with given by some
person with a spirit of malice and de
string revenge? Again Cambridge
City answers yes" Not for a minute
do Cambridge City residents try tc
protect the girls in anything they have
done that is wrong, but many of then
do not believe the girls have beer
treated justly.
Tho pirl, oil IL
not know why they should be made
objects for arrest. They say they
have done nothing and committed ne
acts of immortality, although they are
charged by affidavit with associatine
with low and viscious characters
Last Sunday evening. the two Good
win and Foster girls were seated on
truck near the railroad station with
group of men. They We're before tn,
public gaze and is claimed commit
ted no acts of impropriety
The Dinger girl says she was no
| even in the group and has not beer
associating with the other girls TO
about three months. She does no
know why she should be arrested an,
is at loss to surmise the reason
1t remained for the Goodwin girl
| to show their shrewdness and whel
the deputy sheriff arrived yesterda,
| afternoon. he found they had left
| few hours before. Yesterday morn
| ing, Daisy Goodwin wrote note t,
| the Foster young woman and told he
she had better leave town as an off
Ger was to come, She told Lizzie
there was nothing else to do, and til
| boys had better go. too. But be
lieving in her innocence. Miss Foste
refused to heed~the warning. Sh
waited, the officers came and now sh
languishes in iail.
1t was suggested yesterday to -
prosecuting attorney that it would b
| advisable to send Mrs Gambler. pre
baton officer, to Cambridge City t
investigate the case before making al
rests. But. the states attorney feare
the girls would get word and escapt
Two of them did and one of the pai
arrested claims ability to establish a
alihl and the other says there is n
case against her.
Was the game flushed too soon
1he question is not apropos, consider
Ing the nature of the case. At Can
| bridge City il is regarded as strans
that the charges against Miss Foste
should be filed in the Juvenile cour
when she is beyond the age limit. On
prominent citizen of Cambridge state
today. there is no reason for the a
rests and if there had been the tow
could have taken care of the case
without outside interference.