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Show IT LAKE COUPLE 1 II SUICIDE PiCT Butte Detective Seizes Poison and Prevents Tragedy; To Be Married Here. Special to The Tribune. BUTTE, Mont., ,Tau. 10. A suicide pact, in which Marguerite Wassermnut a pretty ly-year-old Salt Lake girl, and George Rose, her 22-year-old sweetheart, wore the principals, was .frustrated by Detective Ambrose last night, when he took from the girl a vial of carbolic acid. Tho vial contained enough poison poi-son to kill a score of people, "I can't livo without George," wailed tho girl, after the detective had snatched tho vial of poison, following tho arrest of tho young couple, "and Gcorgo can't Jivo without me. Wo have tried lo marry, but they won't let us. leather than be separated we decided to end our exislonco, if caught.' 5 Tho suicide pact is a sequel to au elopomont which took place from Salt Lake City last Wednesday. The couple wero traced to this city and arrested by Detective White at the Oregon Short I inc. depot last night, as they claimed some baggage from the Mormon capital. cap-ital. 3ioso and the girl were placed aboard tho Short Lino train for Salt Lako tonight, to-night, with only lf cents left after tho purchase of their fickots. They will be uinrried when Salt Lake is reached. At the request of her mother, Miss Wassormau and "Roso were sought by tho police of both Salt Lake and Ogden for moro than a week, until it became certain that they had left tho state. Matrimonial intentions on tho part of the young couple woru forestalled whon tho 'authorities at Farmington wore notified no-tified to look. out for them. Their bng-gagc bng-gagc was loft uncalled for at tho Bamberger Bam-berger depot and for several days was watched by the police on tho chance that one or both of them would return. |