The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-05-05
LOVED HUSBAND
OF ANOTHER;
TRIAL FOR LIFE
Seattle Girl Who Gave Rival
Poisoned Cocktail Begins
Battle in Courts "a
DECLARES SHE WAS CRAZY
Ruth Garrison Says She Acted
on lmpulse-Still Loves Man
Who Caused Trouble

Seattle, Wash, May 5.-Love for
the husband OF another woman, and
her determination TO possess that man
which resulted in the deliberate pOis-
oning and death of the wife, is the
charge against Ruth Garrison, IS year
old Seattle girl, who now will battle
for her own life in tae courts. Her
case is said to be one OF the most
remarkable in the crime annals of the
state for, according to the confession
the police say she made, this slip OF
a girl arranged and calculated the
doom of her rival witch all the care
and cold bloodedness Of any Of the
famous poisonersi known to history.
Ruth Garrison on March IS last, in
vited Mrs. Grace Glatz Storrs, %
years old, to luncheon with her in
the tea room of a department store
and, according to the confession the
Garrison girl is said to have made,
placed poison IN a cocktail designed
for her guest before the latter's ar
rival. Death came to Mrs. Storrs in
the emergency hospital OF the store.
Husband Pleads Innocence !, a&
Douglas NJ. Storrs, the dead Wo-
mans hus band, an automobile me-.
chanic Of Okaypgan, Wash, surren
dered soon after, claiming he knew
nothing OF Ahe case, being in Okano
gan at'the time He was arrested on
a felony charge Miss Garrison is said
to have confessed sae visited him in
Okanogan, where she registered as
Mrs. Storrs.
Miss Garrison's attorneys Thomas
M. Askren and A. R. Hilen, entered
the girls plea as mot guilty" They
asserted the girl was insane when she
poisoned Mrs, Storrs but later, they
claim, regained her sanity.
whats the matter? Are you i'll %
witnesses said Miss Garrison asked
Mrs. Storrs as. the latter sat across
the table from her, dying from the
effects Of the fatal cocktail. Although
the police thought possibly Mrs.
Storrs took her own life, they held
Miss Garrison for a few hours after
the death or Mrs. Storrs but later re-
leased her. , After the autopsy dis
closed the manner of death, Miss Gar
rison again was taken into custody
at Lao O'clock on the mor9ing ,ol
March 10 fsat the home of her uncle,
J. D. Esary, president Of the Island
Transportation company. H.
Girl Says She Was Crazy
Miss Garrison at first denied she
knew anything about the cause OF
Mrs. Storr'sv death. All day of the
nineteenth she, held to the point. but
later took the police to the drug
store where she had purchased the
poison and told them in detail OF her
actions on the day OF the death.
II was crazy she is reported to
have said. 81 acted on an impulse
that came to me the morning before
| lunched with Mrs Storrs.' The girl
shed no tears. 1T is too late for thai
now" she is stated to have said. Miss
Garrison's one expressed hope was to
be permitted to see Storrs.
81 love him with all my heart and
SOUL" she said. will they let me seq
him? Will he still care for me?' were
her constant questions.
Storrs was not allowed to see Miss
Garrison. He stated, however, that he
intended to do all he could to help
her. He did not appear anxious to
see the girl nor did he Il express any
desire to- attend his wife's funeral
Scores of sympathetic letters have
been receivedsby Miss Garrison, while
friends have sent her candy and flow.
ers during her detention. .l.. .... g..