Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-11-30 | Page 4 | Despondent Woman Takes Her Own Life

oo DESPONDENT WOMAN TAKES HER OWN LIFE PROVO, Utah, Nov. 29. Mrs. Atice L. Sharp, residing at 185 West Fourth 1 North street, committed suicide by shooting, about 9 o'clock this morning. A neighbor, Mrs. Hyrum Skinner, called at the Sharp home about 9:30 and found Mrs. Sharp lying on a col! on the floor, with a pool of blood bv the side of her head. A SS-caliber1 Smith & Wesson revolver was found by the body from which a bullet had 1 been fired into the head, causing in- , stant death The bullet had entered back of the! right ear and came out at the top of) the forehead over the left eye. i The preparation of the cot "on which the body was resting and the writing on a sheet of note paper show that 1 Mrs. Sharp had decided to take hen own life. The note was written in par- I agraphs in a c5ear, steady hand, and road:., "I was so sick all night The Strug -1 glo 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. lj ij see nothing but suffering and pover- n ty." j oo !