Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-13 | Page 8 | Woman Shoots Self Fatally

WOMAN SHOOTS SELF FATALLY Mrs. Bessie Cheatham. Colored, Color-ed, Takes Own Life. Police Say Apparently despphdent from a continued con-tinued Illness. Be&ls Cheatham'. e6l-or'ed, e6l-or'ed, 36 years of aae. wlifo of Arthur Cheatham, railroad porter, took h-r life yesterday aflcrnoon at 1:30 o'clock by firing two revolver shots ihroush her breast. The womaii lived for nearly firteen minutes following ih- shontinK but illil not regain con-Bcloiisnes?. con-Bcloiisnes?. The shooltnp l"ok place in br home of Mi iJiouise imvi. Eea .oiviK mri,, i . tow mlnuii v' after Mr. Cheatham had arrived, M1-parently, M1-parently, on a ffiendly call. Tin- wu- man wsJKe'l Into the bedroom fired the shots. Mrs. Davis said, and when she had cnlled neighbors and entered the room. Mrs. Cheatham J was lying: aeross the bed unconscious and bleeding from her wounds. The woman died a few Ittlnutes after the arrival of Detectives IV I!. Wooiton r ii. Chambers and C. );. u-isei in t;i . m i u.s Mrs Cheatham lived with her husband hus-band at -64 Tweni -fourth street. She has been in Ogden about years. It was mild, coming here from Missouri. A few minutes befon thf shooting, Mr- DaViS said the woman asKed her for pen and mk, xiaiiiu; sh,. desired de-sired to write a letter. Mrs. Cheatham Cheat-ham then banded the letter to Mrs. Davis with lh request ihai she mail I it, according tn the report. Th.- womw .hi thnii stepped mho the beditoom and ns Mrs. Davis was walking throdghl I the kitchen t- ih- door. vh' was 'startled by two shots, fired in rapid I succession. $he declared Bhe ran frnm the house and called for aid. i i Neighbors entered the house with h-H land found Mrs. Cheatham lying on : the bed. The revolver was a .1:' calibre old-1 fashioned Wf.ipi.ii owned b Mr-. Davis and kept tinder th- pillqw of the bed. LETTER i SIS I l K Th.e htui. addressed to the woman's wom-an's lister, Mrs, Sadie Harper, Bloom-field, Bloom-field, Missouri, was opened iv Detective Wooiton. The mi.--ivt explained that the wriK r had "been feeling terrfblj bad sinee coining here." and VI Leave 'my watch to Iela." She also stated, I "you can do as uti Like With in) ! clothes." II was ug-,-. ' i'.vss." ' Friends of Mrs. t'h ulhain d. cl.m d 1 he had been despondent for months ovei an Ulne.- and fre.iuciMlv complained com-plained about pains iii iier ohest, Mrs Davis asserted she appeared to be In I :i normal state of mind when .ihc arrived ar-rived at h( r home. City physician R. H- Wilson reached' the house with the officers but ih" (Woman died hefort medlc.il aid could 1 be given. I Acting Judge l. J. t HOlther was called to the home following the-i the-i shooting and after investigating dc-i dc-i Ided there was no nec-ssit for bold-i bold-i ing of an Inquest. The body Wat ! taken to the Klrkendall Under ta k- lug establishment.