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Show ISPOIEI WOII ' TIKES HER OWN LIFE j Mrs. Alice L. Sharp of Provo Commits Suicide Iby Shooting. Special to The Tribune. PROVO, Nov. 29. Mi's. Alice L. Sharp, residing at 1S5 West Fourth North street, committed suicide by shooting, about 9 o'clock this morning. A neighbor, Mrs. Hyrum Skinner, called at tho Sharp home about 9:30 and found Mrs. Sharp lying on a cot on the floor, j with a pool of blood by the side of her j head. A SS-caliber Smith & Wesson re- volvcr was 'found by the body from which j a bullet had been fired Into the head, causing instant death. I The bullet had entered back of the right ear and came out at the top of the : forehead over the left eye. 1 The preparation of the cot on which the body was resting and the writing on a sheet of note paper show that Mrs. Sharp had decided to take her life. The note was written in paragraphs in a clear, steady hand, and read: "I was so sick all night. The struggle of life is too great.' I thank all who have been so kind to me. Bury me here; no need of other expense. Doom, nothing but doom faces me. I see nothing but suffering and poverty." Mrs. Sharp had been a Bchool teacher in Nebraska, where she has a number of relatives. One of them Is a sister, Mra. P. L. Hall of Lincoln, Neb. She came here in August from Colorado and was accompanied by her brother, Henry Link. He returned to Omaha about a month ago. Provo people who talked with Mr. Link, and from conversations with Mrs. Sharp, say that she came west with the object of finding a place to live which would prove beneficial to her health. She recently told a neighbor, Mrs. Ada Watson, Wat-son, that she wanted to go to the coast, but that If she did go she would have only a little money left when she arrived ar-rived there. When the body was found Sheriff Henry TCnst was called. He took ehargo of the effects of Mrs. Sharp and has communicated commu-nicated with the Nebraska relatives. The body is at the undertaking establishment establish-ment of Graham & Jones awaiting funeral fu-neral directions. |