They were simply making their way back home

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It's 1921 and Mabel Foote and Louise Wolfe are traveling from the school houses that they teach in. Louise Wolfe, the eldest also holds position as principal. They teach high school aged students in the community of Parma, Ohio. Louise Wolfe resides with a few other ladies, while Mabel lives with her parents. Both ladies are known to spend nights with other friends, and so the ladies friends and relatives are quite used to them not being home some nights. One blistery day the two ladies left the school yard and began their journey home as observed by a local farmer. Neither lady would reach home that night, and it wouldn't be until the following day that they would be discovered. An apparent struggle was had, and authorities believe that while one might have been able to escape the struggle, they always stayed back to assist the other. Nobody was ever charged for the attack that resulted in the ladies deaths, but a few false confessions would be made and a man would be brought into custody and later released. frightened and begging "please don't let those farmers get me." The man had been chased down and beaten by Mabel's uncle and his friends before being brought the police station.