CHLOROFORMED BY MOTHER.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3294, 12 August 1911, Page 4

CHLOROFORMED BY MOTHER.

A GIRL WHO WANTED TO WORK

Caroline Stanghor, 17 years old, was leaving her home in New York the other morning to begin work on a 30b she had secured in order to help support the family, when her mother, who objected to her daughter’s plan, threw a towel soaked in chloroform about the girl’s head. A policeman called by a boy who heard Miss, Stanghor scream arived just in time to save her life. The Stanghors had been very poor since they went to New York from Indianopolis a year ago. The father is in Washington, and Caroline and Victor, the latter 14 years old, lived with their mother, Mrs Bertha {Stanghor. Caroline has made attempts for some time against her mother’s wishes to find employment, and this time she was successful.

She was to begin work that morning and afxmt S o’clock as she was preparing t-o go out, her mother asked if she .was determined to disobey her wishes.

“But we must have money, mother,” said Caroline, and continued dressing. Mrs Stanghor soaked a towel with chloroform, and when Caroline was not looking twisted it tightly around the girl's head. Caroline tried to twistloose and managed to scream once. A boy heard ler and ran to the street, where he told Policeman Leibig that somebody was being murdered in the Stanghor flat. When Leibig opened the door of the fiat Caroline was nearly exhausted. Her mother had kept the chloroform close to her face, and the fumes overpowered her as the policeman entered She was revived by Dr Betts, of Bellevue Hospital, who said that the girl managed to retain consciousness a long time considering the amount of chloroform that had been used.

Mrs Stanghor was removed to Bellevue of observation as to her sanity, and was made a prisoner on a charge of attempted homicide. Miss Stanghor said that her mother attacked her once before when they lived in Chicago.