JEALOUS GIRL ENDS LIFE WITH SUICIDE.
14-Year-Old Wanda Justice Swallows Acid After Quarrel With Boy.
Wanda Justice, a 14-year-old Kansas City, Kas., girl, died at police station No. 3 at 11:45 o'clock last night after she had swallowed half a bottle of carbolic acid. It was the unhappy ending of a trivial quarrel, which occurred while she was on her way to a picture show with three friends.
The girl was an orphan and lived with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Wing, 1613 Kansas avenue, Kansas City, Kas. She was employed by a telephone company.
With her cousin, Hattie Justice, 14 years old, of 1638 South Eighteenth street, and two boy friends, Jacob Webstel, 18 years old, of 1820 Elmwood avenue, and Paul Richardson, 20 years old, of 1719 South Seventeenth street, Wanda left her home to visit a picture show.
"We had a petty jealousy argument," Richardson told the police later, "and the girls left us. I was with Wanda. She kept asking me about my attentions to other girls and I only thought she was jollying me."
Hattie Justice declared that after leaving their companions the two girls went to a drug store.
Hattie Justice declared that after leaving their companions the two girls went to a drug store.
"I have to buy some medicine for my grandmother," Wanda is said to have told her cousin. "Wait here for me."
The girl entered the store and made a purchase, Hattie asserts Then tey walked to hte Shawnee park, where Wanta began running, soon outdistancing her cousin. She finally fell to the ground when the latter reached her. She found a partially filled carbolic acid bottle beside her body.
Wanda was taken to No. 3 police station where she was attended by Dr. J. H. Rose, police surgeon. The girl drank the poison at 10 o'clock and died less than two hours later.
The police took statements from the dead girl's cousin and the two boys. The coroner and the prosecuting attorney may investigate today, it is said.
