Arizona republican., 1917-12-20
MRS. NICHOLSON
 IN JAIL TRIES
 TOEND HERL|FE

Slashing her wrist with a scissors, Mrs. Elmo Nicholson attempted sui eide in her cell in the county jail early yesterday morning. A guard who chanced to pass the door of the wo- mans cell noticed the blood on the floor and called the matter to the at tention of the authorities. The officers rendered first aid service until the ar rival of Dr. A. E. Nicholson who dressed the wound.
 At a late hour last evening Mrs. Nicholson was quietly resting and aside from being weak from loss of blood, was not in serious condition. When placed behind the bars Tuesday evening when she and her husband were taken into custody on advices from Arkansas where they are alleged to have defrauded banks, both were thoroughly searched Mrs. Nicholson was permitted to retain her travelling bag which contained several small articles of monogramed ivory. Among her belongings was a manicure set and it was with the scissors of this set that the young woman, a bride Of year. tried to end her life.
 That she failed in her effort, was her one complaint yesterday as she sobbed
 
 been spared.
 She looked scarcely more than child in the big blue lounging robe she wore. She lay on the blood stained cot which had been drawn near the iron barred window, in the dreary cell which never before held such charmingly cultured young woman. convent bred girl of a good old Ken lucky family, the humiliation and dis grace of arrest was more than she could endure, she said,
 All day she refused the food that the jailer brought her. Kindly notes that arrived from the friends she has made socially in the month or more that she has been here, remained unan- swered by the prisoner who was too crushed by her own suffering to think of any other thing.
 "Only a. person who has been forced to undergo this knows how humiliated l feel I have no desire to live. I could not go home and face people l have known all my life after this dis grace" she declared. The tears streamed down her pale face as she spoke of her mother, whose two sons are fighting somewhere in France.
 This worry added to the anxiety over my brothers will be more than she | can bear" she said as she repeated again and again, mo one knows how l suffer-
 She has the well modulated voice and charming accent of the southern wo- man of refinement and has unmistak- able charm.
 MT. Nicholson, in cell below her own, was far more concerned over his wife's welfare than over any charge against him. He asked repeatedly for | permission to visit her, if only for 8 few moments.
 c. H. Nicholson, Kentuckian here l for the winter. secured an attorney for his brother He, with his counsel, F. l c. Struckmeyer, interviewed Nicholson yesterday afternoon
 Nicholson has not violated anN criminal law" was the statement made by Mir. Struckmeyer last evening, when he declared that his client would fight extradition
 It is understood that Nicholson gave notes to an Arkansas bank for large amount of money and when the notes came due-was unable to pay.
 Tt is not a crime to owe money and not be in position to pay" said Mir. Struckmeyer, who alleged that there would be no settlement since Nichol- son naQ not cOInpOunueu any Ieloly. Nicholson and his wife were arrested at the St. Francis hotel on receipt of a telegram from Arkansas in which the order was made to hold both parties and all money and jewels on their per son. They are said to have diamonds 1 to the value of several thousand dollars among other jewels of lesser value.
 They came to Phoenix for the benefit of Mrs Nicholson's health, and were for, a time at Desert Inn. Later they moved to town where they have made many friends among the southern resi- dents of the city.
 J. w. Buchanan, representative of the Burns agency, arrived here Satur day in the interest of the case on which the agency has been working for sev-