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Show ihka woman comtmcide SheWas In Very Poor Health And Became Despondent Had Money In Provo Bank Mrs. Alice Sharp, residing at 185 West Fourth North street, committed suicide by shooting, about 9 o'clock Friday morning. A neighbor, Mrs. Hyrum Skinner, called 4at the Sharp home about 9:30 and found Mrs. Sharp lying on a cot with a pool of blood on the floor by the side of her head. A 38 caliber Smith and Wesson revolver was found by the body from which a bullet had been fired into the head, causing Instant death. The bullet bul-let had entered back of the right ear and came out at the top of the forehead fore-head over he left eye. The preparation of the cot on which the body was resting and the following follow-ing 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 band and read: "I was so sick all night The struggle strug-gle 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 nothinar hut anfforinv anil tun. . erty." ! . Mrs. Sharp was a refined, Intelligent Intelli-gent woman, according to the neighbors. neigh-bors. She had been a school teacher teach-er in Nebraska, where she has a number of relatives. One of them is a sister, Mrs. P. IL. Hall of Lincoln, Nebraska, she came to Provo in August Aug-ust from Grand Junction, Colo., and was accompanied by her brother, H. link. He returned to Omaha a month ago. Provo people who talked with Mr. Link and from conversation with Mrs. Sharp, say that she came west , with the object of finding a place to live which would prove beneficial to Mrs. Sharp's health. She recently told a neighbor, Mrs. Ada Watson, 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 there, and the impression Is general that she was In straightened straighten-ed financial circumstances. She was not In immediate need however, as she has $159 to her credit in the Provo Commercial and. Savings Bank When the body was found Sheriff Henry East was called; he took rif?e 0f tne effect8 of Mrs. Sharp and has communicated with Nebras-. Nebras-. ...at.vea. i he body was taken to the undertaking establishment 'of Graham and Jones, from where" the body was shipped to Nebraska relatives. |