The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-07-06
No Cause Assigned for El-
fleda Davis Suicide Un-
less She Was Despondent
Over Love Affair.
DRINKS CARBOLIC @
ACID LAST NIGHT,
1t Was Taken Expertly, Ply
sicians Say, as Death Was
Almost Instantaneous and.
Without Pain.

Pretty Elfleda Davis. %. daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. David Davis. III
School street, last night committed
suicide by drinking carbolic acid. and
physicians called in by the frantic
parents. after the girls body. stiff and
cold, had been found. stated that the
girl must have had Instructions how
TO take the deadly acid TO have at
tanned the results she did. One physi-
clan stated that death was almost in
stantaneous, and that no physician
could have saved her life unless he
had been standing at her side with all
his instruments ready for use when
she took the acid. Absolute thorough
ness characterized the deed of the un-
fortunate girl. Dependency over
love AFFAIR may have prompted Miss
Davis to kill herself
She went upstairs TO her room about
$50 last evening. stating that she did
not want any supper. She spoke to
her brother Robert before she went
upstairs, asking him about a picnic
he had attended the day before She
then went 10 her room and wrote a
note, in which she stated she wanted
all her personal property to be given
to a smaller sister. She also stated I'm
her note that life was too hard to
bear" She left instructions as to the
dress she wanted to be attired in
when buried.
She Went To a Picnic.
Recently Miss Davis and her sweet
heart had dispute over some trivial
matter. IL is stated, but ii was believed
they had settled their differences for
on Wednesday she went to a picnic
with him and several other young peo-
pie at a point near Olive Hill where
they spent the day Yesterday she
went to work at the underwear fac
tory, where she was employed. but
came home about noon, saying she
did not feel we'll
The parents of the girl are at loss
to explain her rash act She was not
worried about her home life. and few
moments before she committed sui
eide was downstairs with members OF
her family apparently enjoying her.
self She never gave them cause to be-
lieve she contemplated self-destruc-
ton.
The girls body was found by a youn-
ger sister. Martha. who about eight
o'clock went upstairs to look for her
sister. She came downstairs screaming
that her sister was dead. Investigation
showed the little girls surmise cor
rect. She had taken nearly an entire
glass of the deadly acid, and had done
it SO well that only one small burn.
in the right corner of her mouth. was
visible. Physicians stated her death
was absolutely painless. Funeral ar
rangements have not been announced.
Mother Collapsed.
Miss Davis had not been enjoying
good health for some time. but this In
not thought to have distressed her. az
she was of very joyial disposition.
and frequently joked about her all
ments. Her mother has been i'll for
some time. and when told that her
daughter had suicided. almost col
lapsed. and physicians were called in
TO attend to the mother. Mrs. Davis
condition was much improved today
The funeral will be held Sunday aft
ernoon at two o'clock from the home.
Burial will be at Webster. The Rev.
A. Trueblood will have charge OF the
services. The funeral will be private.
Friends may call Saturday evening
from seven until nine o'clock and
Sunday morning from ten until eleven
o'clock