FULL TEXT: BECAUSE of doubt as to whether or not Agripina Gomez, 15 years old, who yesterday put
carbolic acid in the coffee of her employer, is subnormal, Police Sergeant Leo
Marden of the juvenile bureau will call Dr. Grace Fernald, psychologist of the
Los Angeles State Normal School, Monday, to pass upon the girl’s mentality.
Miss Gomez told Sergt. Marden, Policewoman Brigham and
Officer Wehrley that she had been given a day of liberty by her employer, Mrs.
Harry True of No. 460 West Thirtieth street, on Thursday, with instructions to
be home by 5 o’clock. Instead of returning at that hour, Miss Gomez, in company
with two or three other Mexican girls, visited three other Mexican girls, visited
three moving-picture theaters, arriving home at midnight.
Yesterday morning, the girl said, Mrs. True scolded her and
threatened to call the county probation officers and give her into their
custody, she being out on probation. This threat angered her, and as a matter
of revenge, she says, she emptied the contents of a two-ounce bottle of carbolic
acid into her employer’s breakfast coffee.
Mrs. True detected the order of the deadly acid and asked
the girl what had happened to the coffee. Miss Gomez replied that gas was
leaking in the house. Mrs. True tasted the coffee and was immediately burned by
the acid. She called the police and gave the girl into the custody of Officer
Wehrley.
At the juvenile bureau yesterday afternoon Miss Gomez said
she obtained the idea of poisoning her benefactress by acid from watching a
Mexican woman, 21 years old, poison her seven-months-old baby in the same way.
The girl added that she testified she saw the mother pour poison into the baby’s
bottle.
[“Mentally Wrong? – Girl Pours Poison Into Benefactress’
Coffee.” Los Angeles Times (Ca.), Aug. 18, 1917, part 2,
p. 3]
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