FULL TEXT: Cleveland, October 20. – A strange case of
youthful depravity came to light here to-day. Eliza Sudds, fifteen years old, a
domestic employed in the family of J. J. Crooks, her eighteen months old babe
and Mrs. Gage, where she worked at the Commercial hotel as chambermaid. She became
intimate with a colored waiter named Wilson, and four weeks ago both
disappeared. It has been ascertained that Eliza went to Milwaukee and it is
supposed that Wilson went with her. Eliza returned here two weeks ago, but
Wilson’s whereabouts are unknown.
The girl found a place as a domestic, as above stated.
Sunday Mrs. Crooks was suddenly taken sick, and the babe was also taken sick,
and the babe was also taken sick, and the babe was also taken sick at about the
same time. Monday night a physician was called, who pronounced it a case of
poisoning. The cause of mystery to the family was that Mrs. Gage, called in as
nurse, yesterday, this morning was taken with the same symptoms. Suspicion then
fastened upon Eliza, and this afternoon she was detected by Mr. Crooks pouring
a white powder into a cup of tea the nurse had poured out. He stepped towards
her, when she quickly turned the tea into a pan of dish-water, emptied the pan
and wiped ity, but Mr. Crooks found in her hand a piece of paper with the
advertisement of a drug store named on the paper, where the prescription clerk
failed to identify her, but said that on Saturday he sold arsenic to a woman,
who gave her name and residence. Inquiry at the place as given showed that no
such person lives there. The girl was taken to the police superintendent’s
office, but while momentarily unwatched, she made her escape. The police were
at once notified, and this evening she was found at Newburgh station, in the train
bound for Pittsburg, and she is now safely in prison. Her motive in poisoning
cannot be imagined. To-day, when she packed her effects in a bundle, which she
secreted. It was discovered, and in it was found some stolen articles of
wearing apparel. The victims of this juvenile Lucretia Borgia are now
considered out of danger.
[“Horrible Depravity. – A Modern Lucretia Borgia Turns Up in
Ohio.” The Daily Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock, Ak.), Oct. 31, 1880, p. 1]
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FULL TEXT: The jury in the case of the State vs. Eliza
Sudds, on trial during the latter part of last week and the first of this, in
Cleveland, on a charge of poisoning the family of her employer, returned a
verdict of “not guilty.” The defense was conducted by W. B. Thomas, of this
village.
[Untitled, The Democratic Press (Ravenna, Oh.), Dec. 23,
1880, p. 3]
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