Show I MAIDEN MAl DEN CHOOSES DEATH Unable to Bear Disgrace of Ruin 14 Girl Takes Dose of Strychnine Provo March 23 Minnie Nielsen the daughter of or N P R Nielsen of or Moroni San Santte Sanpete ete county count committed suicide this morning by swallowing a I large dose of oC strychnine at the residence or of Sheriff Harmon The girl ate break breakfast breakfast breakfast fast with the family sad and nd a short time I afterwards na was taken with convulsions She told Mrs Harmon that she bad had taken the poison Dolson just before breakfast giving as liS a reason that she could co l not bear the tile disgrace which she f fOlt lt would follow tollow the hearing In th tb the ease case of or the thu state stae vs s Bert V Partridge is charged with a felony committed against the girl Mrs Harmon at once notified her husband had 1101 gone sone to the office of tee and West Westwood WestWOOd wood Taylor and Urd Ird were summoned I but their efforts to save sac the girl Sirl failed and she died in Iii about an ab hour The case Is attracting a n great deal fit of f sympathy as several prominent people fo f t I whom the child chUrl had hud worked during the 1 I past few month months had a very high regard for her Slit SIll was an intelligent modest J well behaved girl gIr and since the tho trouble which weighed so heavily upon her has lias I become known some of these people have been anxious to take her to their homes I I and amI ant look after her future welfare She came camp to Provo P ovo about six months ago to find Cind work and in III some way wa be le ledine I clune dine acquainted with the family of or Hv H K KW I I W v Partridge in the First ward She I had in a manner made their place her home and had gone gene from there to worK for COl various families She was last employed by b H C Burns and last Saturday she received a note untO from some member of the Partridge family asking her bel to come over to the thO houte houie hou e but she sh did not want to go another note came clime and a ain aln she refused r ule On Sunday Sun ay a third rd note urging her to come was received Mrs Irs Burns then said t T the girl she had hall better etter go and see sec what they wanted She Site did so 80 and did not return This Thia aroused the suspicions of or Mr Burns and aud on Monday he lie told County Count Attorney Anderson A of th the tho affair Mr Ir Anderson And went to the tho th Partridge home to see s e the tile girl and tn then n learned from her h r that the people in the house ho sI had bad persuaded her against her wishes and better judgment to remain He was also told DV bv the girl that Bert W V T Partridge the son of the Partridges had sustained im improper improper Improper proper relations with her The rhe re result result sult suIt of this Information was the arrest of or young The girls girts father who was working in Scofield Scofield Scofield field was communicated with He lie came carao down and swore t td 5 a complaint charging Bert W T Partridge with a felony felon He lie H was arrested arr sted and Is now in jail awaiting I Ia a Mr Nielsen the father of the girl and I the girl have ha n since then been be n stopping at Mr tr Burns and at Sheriff Sherif Harmons S I waiting for the hearing Yesterday after afternoon afternoon noon the tho th girl went over to Mr Burns and ana I there obtained the poison polson with which she ended her life this morning Th The h strychnine strychnine strychnine I nine was mixed with meal and used us d at atthe atthe the Burns home for poisoning mice I Mr lr Nielsen Is disconsolate over Oer his little girls death He treated her in tao kino kina est eat possible manner after his arrival as have all who have been connected with the case casO cas The remains arc ar at the und under undertaking undertaking r I taking parlors of or Graham Jones Jone where a post mortem examination was made this afternoon They will be tent sent to I Moroni for burial tomorrow When Yh n Partridge was arrested he ad admitted admitted I his guilt and wanted to marry marr tile the girl This Mr Ir Nielsen wO not to and ADd Partridges preliminary examina examination examination tion was wa set st for today toda but has been post postponed postponed postponed till tomorrow When Partridge was told of the th girl girlS s death in jail this morning he ie te d did d not seem to feel in the least affected but asked Deputy D put Sheriff Sherif Burnett Barnett to bring Kim him a paper as he wanted to see what they had hud to say about him |