Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-06-03
GIRL EMBEzzLER
TAKES HER LIFE
lnez CarhiII Drinks Poison When
Father Discovers Money
Is Gone.
POLICE LOOKING FOR A MAN
Daughter Who Took Mothers Place
apparently Drew Family Cash and
Turned II over 10 Man.

Led into wrong doing through in
fatudtion for a man. Inez Carhill, aged
10 years. In the despaihng hour Of
realization Of her folly yesterday AFT
ernoon committed suicide by swallow
ing 30 grains Of strychnlne
The tragic event occurred at the
home Of the girls father. D. w. car
mll 81 t25 west Fourth South street. at
about o'clock In the afternoon and
came as the sequence TO the girls
knowledge that her father had dlscov-
cred that she had embezzled funds en-
trusted to her care by the father. Mr.
Carhill had just returned home from
the bank, where he had learned the
truth. and had hardly entered the door
when ne heard the screams Of his
daughter and the torturing cry that
she had taken poison.
mat the suicide was planned and
not the act Of a moment, was evil
denced in three notes left by the girl
Two were to the men and the third to
sister, Myrtle Carhill. The notes
read
Dear Fat You know the reason.
(Signed) "INEZ"
Ed, l loved you to the last Don't
grieve over this,
(signed) 'INEz."
Dear Myrtle: When you get home
aud read this viii be dead Don't
grieve over me. With love,
(SignedD "INEZ."
with the life ~ the suicide Is CON
nected through letters one Ed Wright
OF Sugar city, Ida, and the police are
also now endeayoring to locate through
description the man dubbed Fat" TO
either one OF these Is attributed the
girls sin in approprating her fathers
money, and the cause OF grief that re-
suited In self-murder.
Last winter MIR. Carhill had cntrust-
ed his daughter, who took the place OF
the dead mother in the home. with GER
tificatcs Of deposit amounting 10 $500,
deposited in the Continental National
bank Yesterday the father learned
that all but about 500 had been with
drawn, and the evidence showed that
the money had been drawn by the
daughter and given over TO a man
THE FATHERS STORY
The fathers story. told in a heart
broken way, IL:
There are only three left in the fam
ily now. 1 am laDOring man and
came here seeking health Tor my chii-
H. IL
and my son, Jack, have been working
at Garfield and Inez remained az home,
keeping house. 1 did not know any
thing was wrong until | asked her tine
other day for the deposit certificates
on the bank. was thinking Of going
To Idaho and needed some Of the morey,
and had given the deposit certificates
TO her to keep.
"She told me her sister had taken the
certificates to Garfield for safekeeping
and, not having time TO go to Garfield
| thought no more about the matter. L
went 10 Garfield the other day, and
Myrtle told me that lnez must have
been mistaken. 1 came back home ard
when Inoz entered the house asked her
for the certificates She seemed TO be
worried and said that she would look
for them. Today ! asked for them
could not find them, l told her that I
was going to the bank TO see how
much money was on deposit
AT the bank they told me that she
had Withdrawn the money. so | started
back home. 1 found all Of the doors
and windows locked and had to get
one Of the children To enter the WIN
dow As soon as I got into the house
/ saw the two glasses on the stand and,
rushing upstairs. | heard Inez scream.
She asked me II had forgiven her and
/ told her yes. She then told me that
Slt ilAu taken the lhlNDil anu 1 llul~
riedly sent for a doctor She died be-
fore he got here.
81 left my signature at the bank with
positive instructions TO let no one have
money without my order. II they had
not paid out the money We would have
been saved this Inez had been led by
some man to draw that money and give
IL tn him, for she has never bought her
self any clothing, and could not have
spent that much money without my
knowledge"
When the father entered the home to
find the daughter In the throes Of the
death potion, Or. w. r Beer was
hastily summoned but the girl died be-
fore the physician could reach the bed
side.
POLICE SEEK WRIGHT
Although no formal complaint has
been lodged against ia. Wright, sup
posed 10 be the man who Through his
influence induced the young girl TO
take away her fathers money, the
police viii endeavor To locate him, ac-
cording to Chief OF Police Barlow.
Wright, and Fat" the two To whom
the suicide left notes Of goodbye, are
believed to be the ono man. The last
known OF Wright, through letters
found in the room Of the girl. placed
him at Sugar city, Ida, and chief
Barlow will make enquiry there.
No arrangements have been made
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