The copper era., 1911-02-03
SENSATIONAL CHARGES PREFERRED
 WOMAN ENDS HER OWN LIFE
Mrs. Myrtle Chambers Arrested For Being Access sOry to FeinOuS Crime Alleged to Have Been Committed by ChinamanTragic End
 ing of TriaI---GirI in Case to
 GO to Reform School.

The effort of Mrs. Lucinda Hicks, mother of Myrtle Hicks, thirteen years old, to place her daughter in the reform school, led to a rape charge being preferred against Mrs. Myrtle Chambers and a Chinaman named "Sharkey" on a Tuesday last. The charge against Mrs. Chambers were brought to tragic end on Thursday evening, when at the conclusion of the preliminary hear ing, Mrs. Chambers committed sui eide, by shooting herself through the heart with a forty-ive calibre six shooter.
 The girl was taken in charge by Deputy Sheriff Garnett on Tuesday morning on a charge of stealing a horse from the Morris livery stable and riding it away. After the girl was taken into custody the disclos- ures she made to the district attor- ney nd the officer led to the issuance of the other warrants. The girl was incorrigible, according to the moth CTS story, and she could no control her. She refused to go to school and was out at all hours of the day and night, without the mothers consent.
 A final appeal was made to the of ficers and as result the girl will be sent to the reform School at Benson.
 The sensational charges, the arrest and the suicide have stirred Clifton to the very center. At the prelimin- ary hearing all. spectators were ex- cluded from the court room but re- presentative of the ERA was admit ted and a synopsis of the testimony is printed in this article.
 At the preliminary hearing held before Justice Moder on Thursday morning Mrs. Lucinda Hicks was the first witness. She was the mother and had sworn to the complaint. She said she knew the defendant and that Myrtle Hicks was her daughter.
 That her daughter was thirteen years old on the 27th of November last and introduced the family record to prove her statements. She stated that her daughter had been associat- ing with Mrs. Chambers against her wishes and that her daughter had brought home dresses which she got from Mrs. Chambers. I sent my daughter away. She went to Thatcher but was only there two weeks when she returned to Clifton. I had a talk with Mrs. Chambers about six weeks ago and asked her what arrangements my daughter had made to pay for the dresses, and Mrs Chambers replied that Myrtle was to work and pay for them and l notified her that any such arrange ment would be null and void as my daughter was not of age.
 I could not make my daughter return the dresses as I could not control her. My daughter is wearing one of the dresses she got from Mrs. Chambers now.
 After leaving the court room Mrs. Hicks tainted on the side walk and a doctor was called to attend her. The second witness called was the girl in the case, Myrtle Hicks. She testified that she was 13. That she knew Mrs. Chambers and first met her when she loaned her a riding skirt; that was several monthes ago. One day Mrs. Chambers called to her on the street and told me should get me job in a restaurant. One day she told me to put pieces of paper, bearing the figures IS, in the bottom of my shoes, so that "I coul swear that I was over 1S." This was three