Wayward Girl Took Poison

WAYWARD GIRL TOOK POISON

"Nettie Hoose" Preferred Death to Disgrace

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Girl Had Been Living With Her Grandfather in Detroit Lately

An Ann Arbor girl, over whose bier charity allows the assumed name of Nettie Hoose to remain, preferred death to disgrace and committed suicide in Detroit on Christmas Eve by taking a dose of strychnine while the police had her in charge and while waiting for the patrol wagon to come to remove her to jail.

Patrolman Downie noticed four people in a hack, two men and two women, stop at a saloon. One of the girls, he says, appeared to be not more than 15 years old, and he followed the party into the saloon. The girl left the place by the back door, and the policeman chased her up Nineteenth street, and, overhauling her, brought her back to the patrol box.

While she was standing with the officer at the patrol box, she suddenly threw back her head, and before the patrolman could interfere she had drank the contents of a bottle of strychnine. She was taken to the Trumbull avenue police station, and from there in the ambulance to Emergency hospital, where she soon expired.

For some time past she has been living with her grandfather, who keeps a small store at 75 Chene street, Detroit, but her mother resides in this city. She became wayward in Detroit and her grandfather often walked the streets nights to reclaim her from the dangers of a big city.

The relatives of the unfortunate girl have insisted on a post-mortem which was to be held in Detroit Friday night at the home of her aunt, at 59 Woodland avenue.

The relatives refuse to believe that the girl took her own life by means of strychnine. On the contrary, they declare that they have proof that the girl suffered violence at the hands of some one, whose identity they refuse as yet to make public. They say that the body of the girl, about the shoulders is bruised and discolored, as are the back of the head and the ears. The throat is said to be swollen and discolored as if from a violent wrenching, and both are bruised.

It is declared that the strychnine bottle has never been found.

Relatives also say that a soldier named Brown promised to marry the girl, and that they were planning a wedding when the girl came to her unhappy end.

The relatives say that they have a number of letters, written to the girl by Brown, and these they intend to use to sift the matter to the bottom. They also accuse Brown with frequent attempts to get possession of the letters.