The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-24
MRS. EDWARDS INTERVIEWED Says Husband is a Good
 Sort. WILL WAIT HERE FOR HIM Now Quartered at the Salvation
 Army Home. The~ Young Bride Who Attempted Her Life by Taking Carbolic Acid
 Il Little scarred from
 .1 Acid. "-rt Nf
WILL WAIT HERE FOR HIM

"Fred is a good sort: he never beat me, and was never mean to me at any time, and I certainly, shall return to him at the end of his imprison- ment, if I receive satisfactory assur- ances that he will never in the fu- ture behave as he did when he drove me to drink the carbolic acid." said Mrs. Hilda Edwards yesterday after noon, as she smilingly talked to reporter on The Advertiser on the front porch of the Salvation Army's rescue home on Whitman street.
 The young bride of but a few weeks had been dismissed during the morn- ing hours from St. Margaret's Hospital as cured of the effects of the diluted carbohc acid. which she had swallowed a week previous. Her face showed no burns from the acid with the excep- tion of slight redness at the corner of the mouth and another on the lower neck. -.
 "Yes, I really ment to kill myself last Tuesday night" said Mrs. Ed wards. although Fred could have pre- vented my taking the acid if he had wanted to. He came into the room at the hotel that night in bad spirits, and told me that he was going to leave me. He repeated his assertion several times. and told him would kill my
 
 carbolic acid to my lips. and could have prevented my driking 1t, if he had wish ed. After the first mouthful, l don't remember anything that hap pened for about day"
 Leaving the . hospital yesterday morning Mrs. Edwards turned down Jackson street to go to the house. in the restricted district where she had been keeping her clothes before she ' l o%f r.% hnr ot New Merchants Hotel on Bibb street a week ago.
 At the house she vast told she would be no longer welcome, but Captain Odom, of the local Salvation Army camp, hearing of the young woman's intentions. drove to the house with his wife and persuaded the young wo- man to accept the hospitality of the emergency home until she could se- cure work which would enable her to return, to her old home in Milwaukee.
 Mrs. Edwards accepted the invita- tion of Captain and Mrs. Odom and yesterday afternoon sat upon the porch of the comfortable dwelling, talking with Mrs. Odom about her troubles.
 The young woman talked freely of her life from the time she left her father and mother In Milwaukee a year ago with Fred Edwards. She
 
 the Salvation Army home until she had earned sufficient money to enable her to make the trip back to Milwau- kee to her sisters.
 Willing to Stay Her~.
 "But if secure position in Mont gomery that is congenial." said Mrs Edwards, "I shall remain here indefi- niteIy. I think that there is very ht- tie reason for my returning to Mil waukee. My sisters may not permit me to stay with them, and will have no means to earn my living. If I stay in Montgomery until Fred works his time out. I may rejoin him. Whether I do or not will depend entirely upon whether he agrees to behave himself in the future"
 Mrs Edwards told a most interest ing story of her wanderings from Milwaukee to Montgomery. She said that they had become stranded In Quitman. Ga, and in order to get suf- ficient money to come on to Montgom- cry on their way out to St. Louis, she