The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-06-04
GIRL EMBEzzLER
TAKES OWN LIFE

SAIL LAKE, June 3.-led into
| "ronsdoing through iniatuation OF a
man. lnez Carhlll, aged 10 years, in
tne uespairine hour OF realization of
her iollNs committed suicide Yesterday
AFTERNOON by swallowing so grains of
strychninc.
The tragic event occurred at tho
home of the girls father. D. ". Car
nil OF i25 Weet Fourth South street.
! at o'clock In the afternoon. and
came as sequence TO the girls
knowledge that her father had dis
covered that she had embezzled funds
| entrusted TO her care by the father.
Nr Carhill had Just returned home
from the bank. where he had learned
the truth, and had hardly entered the
door when he heard the screams of
his daughter and the torturing cry
that she had taken poison.
That the suicide was planned and
not the act OF a moment was eyi.
denced in three notes iert by the girl
Two were TO the men and the third
to sister Myrtle Carhill The
notes read
Dear 'Fat'-You know the reason
lSigned) "INEZ."
Ed, / loved YOU to the last. Don't
grieve over this.
(Slgnedl "INEZ"
Dear Myrtle-When you get home
and read this 7 viii be dead Don't
grievc over me. With love
(Signed) "INEZ."
With the life OF the suicide is con
nccted through letters one Ed Wright
OF Sugar CITY, Ida. and the police
are also now endeavorlng to locate
through the description the man
| dubbed Fat" To either one Of these
is attributed the girls sin in appro-
priatiDg her fathers money. and the
cause of grief that resulted in self
| murder.
Last winter Mr. Carhlu had entrust-
| ed his daughter who took the place
! OF the dead mother in the home, with
! certificates OF deposit amounting to
| $500 deposited In the Continental Ma
| tional bank. Yesterday the father
learned that all but about 500 had
| been withdrawn and the evidence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 heart
broken way. Is.
There are only three left in the
family now. | am laboring man and
came here seeking health for my chill
dren. My daughter. Myrtle. the eld
est. and my son, Jack. have been
| working at Garfield, and IncZ re-
mnined at home. keeping house
did not know there was anything
wrong until asked her the other day
for the deposit certificates on the
bank was thinking of going to Ida
he and needed some OF the money
and had given the deposit certificates
to her to keep
| She told me her sister had taken
| the certificates to Garfield for safe
| keeping, and. not having time to go &c
| Garfield, | thought no more about the
| matter. | went to Garfield the Other
day, and Myrtle told me that Ine5
must have been mistaken ] came
back home and when IDez entered
the house asked her for the ccrtlh
Gates She seemed TO be worried anc
said she would look for them To-day
asked her for them again, and wher
she said she could not find them.
told her that | was going TO the banl
TO sec how much money was on de
poslt
AT the bank they told me that she
had withdrawn all the money. so
started back home. / found all thu
doors and windows locked and had t.
get one OF the children to enter tn,
window AS soon as | got into the
house ] saw two glasses on the stanC
! and. rushing upstairs, ! heard Inc.
scream. She asked me il | had for
given her and ! said yes. She theT
told me she had taken the poison anC
hurriedly sent for doctor. Shc
died before he got here.
Il left my signature at the banl
with positive instructions TO let nC
one have money without my order, 1
they had not paid out the money W,
would have been saved this IneZ haC
been led by some man TO draw tha
money and give IL to him. for she ha;
never bought herself any clothing
and could not have spent that mucl
money without nv knowledge"
When the father entered the hom,
to find his daughter In the throes o
the death potion, DR. w f. Beer wa
| hastily summoned, but the girl dlet
before the physician could reach th'
bedside.
Police Seek Wright,
Although no formal complaint ha'
been lodged against Ed Wright. sup
posed to be the man who through hi
influence induced the young girl t
take away her fathers money, thu
police will endenvor TO locate him. &C
cording TO Chief of Police Barlow
Wright and Fat" the two to whom
the suicide left notes of goodbye. arr
believed 20 be the one man. Th'
last known OF Wright through letter.
found in the room of the girl plaoe'
him at Sugar City, Idaho, and Chic
Barlow will make Inquiry there.
No arrangements have been made
I -. ,.ot for tho funpral Of fhc Girl