Show OfFICIALS PROBE MOTIVE BEHIND nEATH ATTEMPT I Young Wife and Chum Drink Poison at Pocatello Poca- Poca Poca Poca-j tello Olive Oil May Result Result Re Re- sult suit in Saving Both Lives Mother of Victim Believes Believes Believes Be Be- Daughter Joined in Suicide Pact for Adventure Adventure Adventure Ad Ad- venture Both Maids i POCATELLO Idaho March 24 Miss Nellie Hurelle of Pocatello 17 years old and Mrs Cooey Cooley of ot Downey 18 years old entered into a suicide le pact here Sunday night which it was feared for many 1 hours would prove successful it was learned Monday when the tho girls were brought to a local hospital for attention The two girls met Sunday evenIng evenIng even- even Ing Sag in the room of ot Miss 1 Hurelle who was employed as a housemaid and attempted to end their lives by I drinking poison polson When discovered I in their agony shortly after 8 I o'clock both girls are declared to have refused attention and nd declared they wanted to die Olive oil was forced down their throats however however however how how- ever and probably saved their lives until medical aid could be called to give expert aid ald Motive of the attempted double suicide remained a mystery last night with both girls refusing g as previously to discuss the reasons reasons behind their action Even her mother Mrs A A. A. A Hurelle Hurelle Hu Hu- relle who es lives west of ot Pocatello was was denied denied the confidence of her daughter but has made an Investigation Investigation gation and said last night that she had a fairly definite Idea of the circumstances surrounding t case Mrs Cooley was t melancholy and andas andas andas as near as I can learn came to my daughters daughter's room for companionship and comfort she said She wanted to die it appears but did not want to go alone QUICKLY ARRANGED I believe Nellie decided to take the adventure with her more for tor company than anything else So far as s I can fini th the hE j pact act ct ha had n not lt been before ar arranged ranged on the spur of ot the moment I I do not know that either of the girls was in any difficulty that would ordinarily suggest such an act Mrs Hurelle Hurdle said that she ex expected expected ex- ex that her daughter would be beable beable beable able to leave the hospital in two or three more mure days but thought that other girl wa was in a a. more serious condition Their condition is hopeful was the slightly less optimistic statement statement statement state state- ment given by the hospital Mrs Cooley came to to Pocatello from Downey about three months ago and has ever since been employed employed employed em em- as maid She is thought to have ha separated from her husband although little is known of her here This belief was strengthened among her friends because of ot her herI I wish to be known as Miss l Cooley |