Show WS US' NIECE NIC ATTEMPTS SUICIDE KANSAS CITY Feb eb 16 Miss Miss liss Agnes Ag Agnec ne nes Elkins a niece of United States Senator Ekin Stephen B. B B Elkins of West Vest Virginia sh shot ot herself today at her room at a local hotel hotel The bullet bulet passed through her body below the heart The physicians believe belie she has bas a chance for forIC IC life A note found on 01 the dressing hessing table read lead S SI I am tired of life and have no home or friends Miss Iss Elkins is 25 years old Her mother died about a year ago antI and shortly hort afterward she went to New NewYork NewYork York against the wishes of relatives in inthis inthis inthis this city eity to apply for an engagement on the tlc stage stag Senator Elkins induced her to visit him at Elkins W. W Va but hut could not change her determination to become an au actress She returned two weeks wees ago to prosecute a damage suit against the Metropolitan Street Railway Railway Rail Rail- Rai way company for for injuries received a year year ago but the cas ease case was postponed Why Miss Elkins tried to end cad her life is is not known She bot bought ht a are revolver re- re olver volver ol er yesterday and later ate wrote sev several se eral oral letters leters Last night she entertained friends in her apartment and told them as they believed jokingly that she was considering suicide They laughed at her After the revolver re shot was heard Miss Elkins was found lying across the bed |