The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-04-23
ELOPE. WE'D AND I'M;
THEN TAKE ACID

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Dallie c. Gibson and Bride ~ 10 End
. Lives In Hotel Twenty Hours
After Their Marriage.
Twenty hours after their elopemen,
and marriage, Dallie g. Gibson, q
years old, and his bride, 10, attempt
ed suicide together ina room At the
Midland Arcade hotel At $50 o'clock
this morning. Each swallowed car
bolic acid. Mrs. Gibson win recover,
but Gibson's condition is critical.
i The bride said she yielded to the
death pleas of her husband only after
hours Of arguing with him for life and
happiness. She said Gibson called
his father over the telephone and told
of the marriage yesterday.
Ellis father said he would kill both
of us, she said. "That made Dallie
want to die and have me die with
him.
A hastily written note to Gibson's
and her own parents was left BY Mrs.
Gibson. In that, village gossips APP
parently were blamed for Gibson's de-
sire that he and his wife should die.
Mrs. Gibson consented to emer-
gency treatment and consequently
was not critically i'll after her arrival
at the general hospital. where both
were taken. Gibson, on being aroused,
refused to be treated by an emergen-
cy physician and is in critical condi-
ton.
Mrs. Gibson's farewellnote follows.
It was almost illegibly written on two
leaves torn from writing tablet,
found by her in the room. II reads:
ITO Butler, Mo-
1--WE depart from this life, not that
we have done anything wrong, but
have decided to end our troubles.
Let that G. C. (meaning Garden
City, talk die away. Dallie said you
would all find out later the reason of
this. Do not think that anyone did it,
as we are going to take our own lives.
Dallie said tell his folks. His papers
are all made out and his suitcase
locked up. Do not worry Dallie's
mother and father. We both did
this in happiness. Don't grieve for
us. Our last request is to put us to-
yether in Mount Olive cemetery,
Butler, No., side by side.
collie (meaning her brother), Dali
les brother Fred's number is 1914
East Fourteenth street, or the lumber
yard at Ninth and Denver. Dallie
says tell his folks first at Butler, Mo.
Tell them where we are SO they will
nave no trouble in finding us. We
bid you all goodbye forever. !"
Signed Wilma and Dallie Gibson.
On the back Of one Of the pages the
'ollowing was written:
"Dallie said you would all find out
alter the reason Of this. Well, bro
her, we are departing our lives. Wei
:hink this is for the best. It is be-
:ause we love each other that we are
ioing this. l am taking my life and
Dallie is taking his. y
The proceeding probably was writ
ZEN as an afterthought to the principal
note.
Dallie Gibson met Miss Wilma Ty-
Ter in Harrisonville in January. Soon
after that she came to visit him at his !.
lather's home. It was then that the
lather warned the youth not to marry
Miss Tyler on the penalty Of being
iisinherited.
IL did not threaten to kill them, /"
aid John Gibson, the father, whom
Eold Of the attempted suicide. my
wife did tell him over the telephone
hat he had made q mistake and that
probably. would not forgive. "
The father owns Z farm three miles
north Of Butler and = well-to-do.
Young Gibson d reported to ,be In /