A complicating feature of this case, resultant upon lack of
understanding of the characteristic vagaries of this type, was
the action of a vigorous knight errant. He was the one who
rescued her. Hearing her ask in the drug store for the carbolic
acid, which she did not get, he thought she was desperate and
questioned her, but she tearfully refused to answer. He quietly
followed her until she got to the river, and then, when she had
her foot on the rail of the bridge and was about to jump off, he
seized her. She fought and kicked him so that she badly hurt one
of his legs. She told him she had reason to commit suicide. He
got her to some house and there she fainted. When she came to
she described her situation to him, naming a man who boarded with
a neighbor as having raped her. She told him this was the reason
she had tried to commit suicide.
This young man visited Georgia's family, found them strangely
indifferent and not inclined to believe the girl, so he set out
to see that justice was done. With his well-intended efforts he
succeeded in getting several agencies to work on the case, the
parents meanwhile partly resenting his interference.
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