The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-12-08
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earn her own way as best she could
| She went out into the world.
! So. about Il year before she COM
pletely disappeared from the outside
world to live the life of hermit,
Schmick met her and employed her to
keep house for him. She accepted and
her new life began.
Then the story of the attorneys
continues, it was that Schmick made
improper advances. Miss DeCamp
resisted Schmick threatened.
Seven months later, Miss DeCamp
left him and went to the home of her
father, who was then living in Green
field. (Whether her father is now
alive is unknown.)
Only Baby Was Born.
There her only baby was born
dead Schmick again sought her,
threatened, persuaded, and Miss De-
Camp gave in, through fear. Again
she returned to the place, but she
knew that it was wrong for her to do
so.
On April IS of that year she told
Schmick she was going to leave.
Schmick attempted to persuade her to
stay. Unable, he brought her into
Eaton.
"'Where will you CO.," Schmick is
said to have asked her.
Yes, where would she go? She
hadn't thought of that. Wouldn't it
be better to return to Schmick's farm,
would that be better than to be ar
rested, probably, and then disgraced.
Schmick argued and at last his argu-
ment triumphed over Miss DeCamp's
better reasoning.
She returned.
From April IS, 1901, until Friday,
November 23, last month, she lived
secretly in Schmick's home. Schmick
held the same influence over her. and
fear kept her there, the attorneys
say.
Clothes Were Concealed.
For nearly seventeen years she hid
from the outside world. Her clothes
were carefully concealed. When Wis
itors came to the little farm house
she hid in another part of the house.
For more than sixteen years with
out a pretty dress! And worse still,
without new hat! Her clothes were
all of the meaner sort.
But one thing Schmick did provide
and that was plenty of reading mate
rial. and Miss DeCamp is very well
read and advised woman" say the
attorneys.
Once, when her teeth were hurting
and she asked to be taken to an Ea-
ton dentist, Schmick refused. So one
of the first things she did when she
left the place was to go to a dentist.
Another was to purchase underwear
and other wearing apparel.
The suspicion of neighbors that
"sonle woman was living with
Schmick grew when he became i'll. A
milk pail which was placed in the
front of the house aroused that sus-
picion.
The pail was always taken into the
house emptied, washed and replaced
in front of the house. How could
sick man, unable to leave his bed, get
the milk pail. wash it and replace it,
they asked, and came to the conclus-
ion that it couldn't be done. But they
did not see her.
Old Man Was Deierious.
When Miss DeCamp left Schmick. it
was very apparent that he would die,
the attorneys say. He was seing
'grasshoppers, big hams and other
things hanging over him and was de-
lirious at times" the attorneys say
Miss DeCamp told them.
Schmick's face was not sore when
she left him A. j. Schaffer, neigh
Dor farmer, who had been feeding the
stock on Schmick's farm found him
lying on the floor and it is believed
that his face was injured in the fall
to the floor.
When she came to Eaton she regis
tered at a hotel here. Several times
she refused to eat, so nervous was
she would still be arrested. She
was unable to talk at times because
Of her nervous condition,
She wore the same clothes, when