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Show CHILD BRIDE SUICIDES Unable to Reconsile Life with. That of Young Gambler Unable to endure the situation in which she found herself as a result re-sult of a hasty and unscrupulous marriage which took place just five weeks previous Kelsie Osborn Patten, 16, of Cuyahoga flails, O., placed the muzzle of a short barreled barr-eled shotgun against her right j ide at 4 45 A. M. last Saturday s ; , "fiormng at her apartment at a If local hotel and fired a shot into her body which caused her death . i ; two hours later. The shot and screaming which , v followed awoke the adjoining tenants who rendered all posible assistance to the injured girl. During he half hour of consci-? consci-? ousness after the shot, the girl ex- J pressed regret at having inflicted the wound and excoriated the treatment which she claimed had driven her to desperation. She also wrote letters to her mother, I husband and ' girl friends just prior to the traged in which she f emphasized these conditions. ! . The dead girl and her hus- band, Shirley Patten, had quarrel ;l ed intermittently ever since their marriage some five weeks ago. A dancing party had been planned ' for Friday night and when Kelsie l. t,.1 lf found that she had been left out of the party, she Bought other means of transportation and went to the dance anyway. Returning to Bingham about 2 o'clock in the morning, Kelsie met her husband on main street and the hostilities started again. No one else except the dead girls husband was in the room when the tragedy took place. Relatives of the dead girl were comunicated with in Ohio and at . their request O'Donnel & Co. local undertakers shipped the body on Monday to the east. |