Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1914 — PLANK GIRL DIED AT LAFAYETTE HOSPITAL [ARTICLE]

PLANK GIRL DIED AT LAFAYETTE HOSPITAL

Foolish Delphi Miss Who Made a Suicide Compact With Married Man Died Wednesday. Grace Plank died Wednesday morning at St. Eliabeth’s hospital in Lafayette. ", Miss Plank is the Delphi girl who became infatuated with Emil Beuhrer, a married man whose home was at Toledo, Ohio, and who deserted his wife and three children and came to Lafayette to meet Miss Plant, with whom he entered into a suicide compact. Almost two weeks ago the couple went to Tecumseh Trail, near the state soldiers’ home, and each drank carbolic acid. They Were found soon after the act and were rushed to the hospital, where doctors and nurses worked diligently to save them. Beuhrer recovered and went to Archibold, Ohio, where his parents live, expressing the wish that he and the Plant girl might never meet again. She expressed the same wish and it came true, for she had been so severely burned that nephritis and gastric ulcers in the stomach resulted and caused her death. She became very penitent when .She realized what she had done and expressed a desire to live that she might make amends for her mistake. She was 22 years of age.