The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-06-26
GIRL DRINKS
CUP OF POISON
Mary Voloi, Divorce, IS,
Drains Glass of Iodine
at Home.
POLICE IN RESCUE
Would-be Suicide Fights for
Death, Graphing with
Four Policemen.

Graphing with four policemen and
the physician who had come to her
aid, Mary yoloi, 10, this morning at
her home at So Fremont avenue en-
tered into a bitter struggle to keep
her rendezvous with death, after drink
ing a glass full Of iodine poison.
Death, the grim image, was wrested
from the plump arms which held him
in SO ardent an embrace, and when
the police finally left the home after
an hour and half of conflict, they
were satisfied that they were the con-
querors. 1t is believed that the girl
will live.
Went to Dance Last Night.
Mary, although only 10, has had a
volume of experience lived already.
She was recently divorced from Wasil
Ptasnik, whose youthful bride she was.
She lives with her father and mother,
Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen Voloi and three
sisters and a brother at the Fremont
avenue address. Both her parents
work at the Nash factory and Mary
has been employed at the lace factory
at Zion. This morning, however,
neither Mary nor her mother went to
work.
Monday night Mary went to dance.
Who was her partner2 There was
one in the offing who envied every
partner on the floor that the girl
had, and the envious one wore the
grinning mask, the hollow eyes, the
fleshless bones of the last partner.
SO this morning Mary started the
Dance Macabre.
Drinks Glass Before Mother.
"Here goesl" said Mary, picking up
a glass of brownish liquor in the
presence of her mother, and drinking
it. "Here goes!" was the girls fare
we'll to all dances, to all partners, to
all sweethearts, lovers and friends.
AS the girl sank back on her pillow,
waiting in an extraordinary high glee
for the self-sought end to come, the
others dashed out and summoned the
police, who received the call at 1880
a. m.
Lieut.. Rock, Secretary Meissner, De-
tective Breidt ard officer Long re-
sponded with the police ambulance.
When they found the girl in what
they believed to be dying condition,
they sought to lift her and carry her
to the waiting ambulance and trans
fer her to the hospital and expert
care.
Girl Fights Like Mad.
But Mary was enamored of death,
and she put up an unbelievable strug-
gle. A stout, husky girl, there was
plenty of power left still in that
frame She laid out stoutly about
her, and put up so complete a resist
ance that it was thought best to sum-
mon a physician. DR.. II. M. Ripley
was called.
In the presence of the physician
Mary's strength redoubled and she
spent her rage on the five men who
would have helped her, with the
again she swept away the antidote
that was placed at her lips.
At last the police officers held the
girl while the physician injected a
pacifer in her arm. Mary was sub
dued. Her head nodded and the liquid
was gotten down her unwilling throat.
Were you in love Nary" one of
the police officers this morning asked
the young woman while sitting at her
bedside and endeavoring to persuade
her to follow the physicians order.
"No, / wish l were!"' she said
laughing. She refused to discuss any
possible love affair, or the events
which had lead her to wish to end her
life.
Mary Voloi secured her divorce from
Wasil Ptasnik in circuit court before
Judge Belden March IL, 1924, Roy S.
Stephenson her attorney representing
her in court as her guardian ad Item,
as she was under 81.
She and Wasil were married at Wau-
kegan June 2, 1923. There was no
child born of the union. The girl
charged extreme cruelty in her divorce
complaint. She said that Wasil had
struck her with his fists, and one time
seized her by the throat, choking and
strangling her, and another time threw
her out Of the house upon the side
walk
When the divorce Judgment was
entered, her request that she be allow
ed to resume her maiden name was
granted.