Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-25
School Gossip Driues
I2-Year-Old Girl
to End Her Life

| Chicago, Nov. %. Ruth Camilla
beauty was specie of the realm. 1t was
bounded by the ninth and twelfth
birthdays. Its inhabitants consisted Of
Fritz, an adoring dachshund; papa"
who was member of the school board
and a great man, and innumerable
gruff little boys, who. ostensibly ig-
norant of her observation, spat thru
vacant front teeth and turned gorgeous
somersaults for her admiration. She
was happy and the jealous green COM
plexion of the feminine part of her
! world bothered her not at ALL
And unsuspectingly Ruth came sing
ing across the borders of her ain coun
tree TO the alien land of knowledge and
establishment. Tho she knew she
came from God, it was gradually borne
upon her that her girl-mother wan
dered a little way on the path of the
Magdaienes.
A Social Trespasser.
She was an interloper who had no
gospel sanction in the world, no visi-
BILE parents other than a foster father
and a foster mother. Perfectly re-
spectacle little girls began to inform
her so with self-righteous airs and
with the experiences of surgeons to dis
sect her from the social scheme that
governs puss- want-a-c corner with the
same iron rule that in later life deter
mines who shall be asked to play
| bridge and who ehall be outlawed.
Your parents aren't your own" was
the taunt that Ruth heard from play
M nf he irlc "a
the poison of sympathy to the info,-
nation. And Ruth Camilla Fisher at
II found herself stranger in
strange land
She Shoots Herself.
She extradited herself Tuesday night
with revolver shot in the temple. In
the yard back of her foster parents
home at 53l9 West Twenty fifth street.
Cicero. with one arm around the loyal
Fritz she had put the revolver to her
head and had pressed the trigger
You needn't bring my lunch to
school tomorrow" she told Ethel
Greenfield on Tuesday afternoon, when
they We're on the way home from
school. I'm going 10 shoot myself
tonight"
Ethel told her mother but Mrs.
Greenfield said that she thought it
childish nonsense and paid no atten-
ton to it.
Ethel had talked herself of sui
eide. and l put II down to romantic
ISM" Mrs. Greenfield said.
Il knew Ruth was going TO do II.
She was determined said little Ethel
with the triumphant air of a prophet
indicated.
Method in Her Plans.
Ruth returned home after school.
She played double solitaire with Mrs.
Emil Fishel. her fother mother. while
Mr.. Fisher, a member of the school
board. was attending a meeting
At 9 o'clock Ruth yawned and said:
Fudge, I am going to bed She went
to Mr.. Fishers room, procured his
revolver. and went quietly downstairs.
Il am going to give Fritz some ex-
ercise." she called to Mrs. Fisher. A
few minutes later Mrs. Fisher heard
two shots, ten or fifteen seconds apart.
She ran into the yard and. directed by
the whining Of the dachshund, found
her little foster daughter. Ne,ghbors
who had heard the shots also ran in.
and Ruth was carried to the house.
She died few minutes later without
regaining consciousness.
Forked Tongues Barred.
None of the school children who
made Ruth's life TOO great a burden
VIII be permitted to attend the funeral
today. And Emil Fisher. the child's
foster father said ne would never
again be q candidate for the office of
echool trustee.
Because Of the act OF little Ruth
could never face the children again
and regard them in the same light"
he said. want no hand in shaping
school work after this
Liverpool Grain.
Liverpool. England, Nov. %.