Arizona republican., 1921-02-21
WOMAN SEEKS DEATH IN RAGING BLIZZARD
 ALONG CANYONS RIN

Alone and penniless, the lustre of the world dimmed by years of adver- sity; charms of life faded by cold, hard experiences, Mrs. Pearl Monroe sought solitude, oblivion, in the great barren stretches of Northern Arizona. Per chance, if her will had been done, a wayward traveller would have found her body when the mountain snows had been melted by a warm spring sun.
 But fate played against her, as it had done so frequently of late, and her will was not to be done. Her end- less ride northward, into the frozen, snowbound country was halted on the precipice of the Grand Canyon, and she was brought back to realization and civilization
 Unable to find work, and Respondent because of domestic troubles, this slip of girl - only p years old had swung into a saddle or q great gray mare borrowed from d friend. She planned a ride unto death, with only a bit of horseflesh as d companion on her last journey-the Great Journey. | Ever she plunged northward, into | the frozen mountain territory, into the teeth of a raging blizzard. But she ! held to the saddle. Onward she rode, 1 she knew not where except that the end of the journey would be death. Nothing mattered, not even life itself. Garbed in the dainty lingerie of the society matron, the wonder is that death did not overtake ner before the hardy men of the north.
 l Her story, as related after her re- 1 turn to Flagstaff a few days ago, fol- lows.
 She left her husband few months ago, she said, because he was so un- | congenial she could not endure llVlng with him. She stopped in Albuquerque on her way to Flagstaff, where she got room at the Weatherford hotel. ] She searched all over town for work and even advertised for it, but without | results. She owed for her room rent and had only s1.75 left last Thursday when she borrowed Wm. c. Booker gray saddle horse, saying she wanted | to ride for a few hours.
 That was the last heard of her until
 Saturday, when Deputy Sheriff Ed
 Raudebaugh began telephoning sur rounding towns and ranches to see II he could get any trace Of her Mrs
 Claude Knight, of the copper camp
 16 miles out on the Grand canyon road, gave out the desired lntorma- tion. Mrs Knight said that Mrs. Mon roe had stayed there the night before and had left shortly after dinner, Tn the heavy snow storm, saying that she was going to Grand Canyon Mrs Knight had tried her best to dissuade her.
 County Rangers S. O. Thompson and
 Billy Rudd at once left in an automo-
 bile to overtake the woman. Bookel
 went along to ride his horse back Frank Thomas met her on the divide
 that afternoon. She told him she wa: , going to Lees Ferry and across tt , wyoming.
 They found Mrs. Monroe at Os | borne's formerly Westover's) ranch , at Dead Mans Flat, 24 miles iron , Flagstaff. There was no one at home
 and she had lighted a fire and wa l making preparations to stay there tha f night.
 Mrs. Monroe said that if the officer
 hadn't come she would have gone ol
 next day toward Grand Canyon. Sh ( was told that to have attempted thd 69- mile trip along the uninhabite' , road to Grand Canyon, in the snoV f and cold, would have meant her death r especially as she was very thinly clad
 She replied that she didn't care wheth , CT she died or not
 She was brought back to FlasStaf $ Saturday night. County Attorney ?
 NJ. Gold questioned her. Satlstie'
 ttat she was telling the truth and tha , she is a woman of good characte! l WlIcn was SuDS SLdlllldteu bS -hA Ao- i4-''
 rroorietor of the Weatherfor1 hote
 who says Mrs. Monroe acted in mos
 lady like, refined menner all the tim o she was there, MT. Gold and the sher
 frs officers got busy to see what coul,
 be done to help hec, with ta2 resul
 that they found her position WI = one of the best families, where sh . will have pleasant surroundings an an opportunity to soon forget ne tvOub'eS