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Mother of Girl Poison Victim in ? Visfil at Bedside Vnman Waits Moment of Lu* I'.sicidity to Learn Story of , Alleged Sleeping Car Attark. By SOMA LEE. International New* Servtee Staff Corre*»|H)ndent. ■»[ jNDIANAPOLIS, Ind.. April ■A! Mathilda Jane Oberholtxer today sit a by the side of her daughter, Madge, who 23 days ago took hi rjnloride of mercury at Hammond, Ind., f«$jf)wlng an alleged attack by D. C. i^iiphenson, former Ku Klux Klan leader, and a power in this state, and stfjws to penetrate th» bulwark of the pjijrt’s unconsciousness with crooning vgprds of love and prayer and pity. ,t The girl lies in a. corner room on tjfcti- second floor of Iheir home in a aj&tatn neighborhood immersed In a 'ttmi* which has extended into 11 ilags, calling for her mother, sobbing, vf'ppnpering. PiFhysirlans have said there is no She might live two weeks, may die at any moment, depend itj'd!: on the rapidity with which her kidney tissues are deteriorating, due t«J|klhe aetlon of the poison. Dying Statement Remains, lipiit the stoop-shouldered woman In the lavender crepe frock, covered by iisj. apron of checkered gingham, sfnooths the fretful fingers and strengthens her toppling hopes. Ter Haps the ill may never, ever for a TjlWn ent, regain lucidity. There will lijji.[then only her dying statement, iWlWe In an affidavit form before Dr. Mwjgsbury, and two attorneys. Asa S^jjkjth and Judge Charles K. Cox, to (jftijuse Stephenson. Mjpiut*these are matters of legal im plicit only anil to the mother wateh iiisC are as mere drops in a deluge. She sits with a quietness of infinite* weariness as she tells of her be lijved—as she wonders and fails to Understand. ,Iy.lt was on a Sunday," she begins to 1 H«t plaintive wall of her Madge in pijifrt, ' and I wanted to go to churoh. M^k^ge took me over and brought me lij&k and then she said that she Rnd lamina Moore, a friend, wanted to go ft#1 a drive In the afternoon. Some tlfyie later a call rame for her. The rntiia on the wire said he was Stephen son's secretary. He called again and ltift a number. Not five minutes eJAIised before the phone rang again aijtil I lnquiried if It was the same per xQpl calling. I rcelved an Indistinct rMjjty, but the number was left again fhpk Madge. She came In after 9 cfljjibok that evening, and I told her of tpA messages. She waited a bit and tHIen railed. By that, time I had gone to bed, and she came to my door and told me that there was a party at ■fejthenson's an*' she was going over. Hears .Man's Voice. ■[•fgteve can’t come for me,” she told tttq,' “but he’s sending someone after nr#.- I heard a man’s voice st the door wdpen she went. down. I looked out of t|te window and saw a broadshoul deiced man escorting her down the vylUk. They crossed the etreet, and I back to bed and to sleep. '.[■'Madge had said that she would be hijkik soon. I hadn't heard her come ify"and when I awoke at half past 2u|:t w<*nt to her room to see if she viA* a sleep, as is my habit, and was d^urbed when I saw tha bed unruf fWjJ ![y',At S o'clock, when aha was still u^jitfing. I went down to tha phone a'nii called Asa Smith, a. young attor nta-, and a close friend of the family. sjtljHe told m» not to worry—that yllj^dge was probably staying with solmp friends. * I gave him the phone n«|)rnbers of several of her acquaint ances, and then began my waiting. Father Not Told. "•My husband bad been ill. I did njijj!tdare tell him of our daughter's efwfnge absence. She had never re mained away without letting me ktipitc. I couldn't understand, and m.v hiifift wag so heavy—as if I knew something terrible had happened. .'fA little after nine a wire came fi*ijti» Hammond. It read: 'Driving through to Chicago, Be home on njjjftt train. Madge.’ t’.'j; called Mr. Smith and Miss MWM®. We met the night trnin. ytnjlg» did not come. I couldn’t tell hfjji! Jather. IflAbout 11—on Monday night, It -more than 24 hours after my gjm, had gone—I went to Stephen fw'i home and hammered on the di^r and called and shook the knob. 'fftt seemed as if no one would an set<# and I leaned up against the pll Util jan<! thought I was going to die. ■t'yhen a man came and I asked hjjni if there had been a party at the h4nj<|e the night before, and he said h«j|jtadn't known there was. I asked hjmjllf he had seen Madge. He denied he had. tut stated that he thkftjght he had heard Mr. Stephen . ill.e- .. son * vole* in the hallway that morn ing. "Asa, who had driven down the street a hit. and waited for me, told me later that a large ear Just then drove Into the drive and stopped. But all we know w-as that a man sud denly appealed at t.ur side and want ed to know what we were after. "We asked him about Madge and Stephenson, and 1 threatened to put the federal authorities on the trail of my daughter if she didn't return soon. "The man. Madge told me later that his name was Shorty, mumbled something about finding Steve and we went away. Again lo wail. "While I was at tile Western "Un ion offiee to get a copy of the tele gram t rereived the morning before, my daughter was brought home. A strange man had carried her up-> stairs, mumbled something about an aerldent at Munrie. and hurried away. "And this Is the story she told in the Intervale when poison eating inlo h«r has Jet'her rest." The woman listens closely with fin ger upon lip for the indistinct moan ing. It rises Into a crescendo of agony. "Mother, mother dearie," the girl cries. "My daughter told me." she begins again, 'before she herame uncon scious 11 days ago, that just as soon is she got to Stephenson’s she knew she was trapped. She said that she had something to dring, and then—I'm not quite clear here—hut they were going to take her to Chicago. She thought they were driving through, and she pleaded to go home for a hat as an excuse. But they took her right along. When they got to town,-they" bundled her into a compartment and Shorty took the car, presumably to drive through. Displays Bruises. "See.” the woman pulls back the girl's nightgown, displays the three bruises. “She was a mass of black and blue spots when she was first brought back.'.', she says. "When they got to Hammond they went 1o a hotel. There were two rooms, and Shorty met them with the car later on. There was more drinking, she told nte. Stephenson stood over while site wrote out the telegram I received, and it was Ihen sent to the telegraph office by mes senger. One of the men gave her some money to buy a hat and she went out and bought the poison and ahe look it when she came back to the hotel. "They laughed at her ’when ahe •aid that ehe had takeh poison. Thev tried to make her say that ehe hadn't. Rut then ehe got sick and she went In the telephone to rail me, hut she was an weuk ehe couldn't eland tip. "If she had only let m» know Nothing would have stood tn my way, and she would ha\c received medical attention immediately. She has so little chance now—even after th» blood Marshall, her brother, has gl'en her. I waived bn offer mine, but his w as heter. "When she became sick they start ed hack. She begged them to leave her’by the *1de of the road so that some one wnuld pick her up and take her tn a doctor. She was burning up. Rut they promised to stop at Ihe next town—and the next, and the next. Rut they never stnppmj, and she was losing so much blond and suffering tortures. Some one suggested that tli* best wav out was for Stephenson to marry her. Rut she refused. "My girl was In that car when 1 was at Stephenson s door looking for her. She couldn't cry out. She begged them tn take her home. She couldn't move, she was so weak. And there she lav, helpless, and 1 was only such a little way way from her. Taken to Garage. "From now on. as I understand It, she remembers hut little. She said that she was taken to the garage, to the serwint quarters. She may have been unconscious—she may have slept. Rut the next thing she knows she was being carried upstairs and put to bed—in her own room.” She holds her child's hands In both her own. The girl murmurs through straight rows 'of white terth. She draws back her slightly pink lips. "Mother, mother dearie, mother dearie.’ becomes blurred in the rapldl tv of repetition. She calls for Marshall and then her mother again, iler heavy lids flutter and teats squeeze out. Her curved black brows draw straight, as she seems to remember with dulling monotony some experience. "She had told me that she had met him at the governor’s ball,” the mother recollects. "She had gone with another young man, but she danced with Stephenson. Another time she went to a party at his house with a friend of his, a senator from Evans ville. I didn't know she was seeing him. I don't know how frequently she saw him, if at all.” Road Graveling Begun. Harvard, April S.—Graveling work on ncarhv highways has already be gun in this territory. f-' Burgess Bedtime Stories --* By THORNTON \V. RPRGESS. Whin #>r ' nu find m person E«>«*BBlnf. HIb ipnorinr# h* 1« rnnf*Mint - Hid Mnthnr N*tur«. Peter Make* Another Wrong Giles*. To guess is shout as useless a thing as any one ran do. eYt most folks do a great deal of guessing. If they do not know a thing they guess. Peter Rabbit had guessed that the log on which Thunderer the Grouse drummed was hollow. He had never taken the trouble to find out until Jumper the Hare had led him over there and told him to look. He had guessed that Thunderer always used a log for his drumming until now he So Peter stole a hit nearer to where Thunderer was drumming and watched. had seen Thunderer drumming on a rock or on the ground. You see, It always is easier to guess than to take the trouble to seek the facts, and p*ter Is surh * happy go lurky lit tie chap that ha always, or almost always, does the easiest thing. It whs somewhat upsetting to find that he had been all wrong In his ideas about th» drumming of Thun derer the fjrottse and Peter's curios ity was aroused. You see, It doesn t take a great deal to arouse Peter's curiosity. If Thunderer didn't drum b> pounding something with his wings, how did he do it? He certain ly made all, that noise with hi? wing?, so of course he must pound something with them. This is what Peter said to himself. “It is plain enough to me ihat. it doesn't matter where he is.'' thought Ppter. “He can drum anywhere. Mill, he must pound something with those wings of his in order to make that nojsr. I'll watch him a little more closely and see what It Is.” So Pptpr stole a hit nearer to where Thundpr*r was drumming and watched. He saw Thunderer lift his wings aboye his head and bring them down. He lifted them hard and be brought them down hard, and peter heard the first boom of the long roll. It began slowly and then went faster and faster. By now those wings were moving so fsst that all Peter could see of them was a hlur. Then tliev stopped, and of course the drumming stopped, too. But Peter was satisfied. tie knew now how that drumming was done. He knew now what Thunderer heat with his wings. At least he thought lie knew. So h" was satisfied. It didn't occur to him to even try to make sure that he knew. He was guessing, and nothing more. "He h ats his own sides with his wings, and that is the way he makes all that noise," thought Peter. "His own sides are his drum. T wonder that I didn't think of that before. Of course he doesn't have to be on a hollow tree. Of course he can drum anywhere he happens to he He has his drum with him all the time. Well, I'm clad I found out about It all by myself ’'ll go hunt up Cousin .lumper and tell him that I know now how Thunderer the Grouse drums and what his drum really Is." So off started Peter to look for his cousin. Juniper the Hare. And ss he hopped along, lipperty lipperty, lip. through the Green "Forest he heard behind him the drumming which sounded lik* distant thunder, and chuekled as ho thought how smart he had been to find out all about it and how II was done. It didn't nnee pop into his funny little head that after all ho was still guessing and that he might bo mistaken. As a matter of fact lie was, lie waa quit* as mistaken a* when he ha-1 hcen mi sure that Thunderer made all that noise by heating a hollow log w th hi* atout wing*. Put Peter was sure—oh. absolutely sure—that this time he was right, and he hurried, for he was most anxious to find ills cousin, Jumper the Hare, and tell him how much he kpew. You see, Peter, like many other people, couldn't he comfortable until he had told what he knew. The next story: "The 1'psettln* ■>: Peter." (Copyright Ord to Hold May Festival. Ord, April S. This city Is plant ut; a festival to tie held on May d. - under the direction of Prof, J, ,1. flecks. _ i Nebraska News Nubbins i ■; ■< Harvard—An unusual reception was gtt'fin the University of Nebraska Mfin's files rluh which appeared In s sabred concert here. A program, In eluding concert singing, solos, Instrn rrtental snd quartet numbers, was given before a. capacity auellence at the park pavilion. 'Ai*(l—filce club of Nebraska Wee 1e!fa,p university gave a program here Tuesday night. Kfiarvaril— Funeral services for TlWr.as ft. Sutton. 78, former real dgklt of Harvard, who rtle.t at Wol bakih, Neb.. April 3. were held Mon fl;jk from .Mt, Joseph Fat hollo church bar*. 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