The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-08-08
From the Dailp of Tuesday,
THE OLD STORY.
heart Weary and Dlsgusted
With q Life Of Shame q
Butte Girl Suicides at
Helena.
A Sequel Tragedy Attempted by
a Young Man in Butte.

OF now the other half lives; and the
ger'ns of tragedy are planted in every
oyway, Which at any moment may
grow into sorrow, suicide and crime,
carrying in their wake the inevitable
train Of broken hearts, devastated
eearthstoBes, and ruined lives. A
few weeks ago n of the most 1.-the
some and efficient Mattresses in one
Of the popular hostelries OF this city
was Katie Shannon. Those who
saw her smiling face and cheerful
manner IS she served them with
their orders at the table,
could not have dreamed
that lurking beneath her happy coun-
tenance, there lay the csroding pain
of q disappointed life, which would
eat at the heart strings until the
struggle with lifc's great error should
terminate in a suicides grave. But
the following brief story clipped from
last Sundays Helena INDEPENDENT,
tells the sad sequel of Katie Shan
nOn's mistake:
Kate Shannon shot herself in the
abdomen last night shortly after mid
night. The doctors in attendance do
INV "a VNV AV4 W 1kVO AkOlO Vuhu d
few bours, and she will probably be
dead before this reaches the public.
Thorough disgust with her associates
and her mode of life are supposed to
be the causes of the act"
Since the receipt of the above infor-
nation 1t t%ranspires that the young
lady came to Butte several menths
since and engaged herself as waitress
at one of our hotels. She was of
comely form and spirited in her man
ners and soon attracted q number of
admirers, some of whom were from
the ranks of our honest yeomanry
who would have laid at her
feet the wealth of a devoted heart
and cared for her with the fruits of
their honest toll. But alas for the
waywardness of q misguided girl;
there was one among her many adj
mirers, who though not of particular
ly pleasing exterior was possessed of
the oily tongue and suavity of man
ner which won her heart; in yield
ing which she yielded all that a We
man should guard and protect with
her life. The paths of sin were trod-
den for a time in gleeful spirits; and
insane with the dissipation OF a sim
full life the young girls Imagination
painted the world in the roseate COL
ors of a happy dream; from which
she was suddenly awakened
by an arrangement. with her
lover, who had soon tired
of her cheaply purchased love. She
then went to Helena, where she
plunged headlong into a life of sin |
which in two short months resulted
in the sad sequel OF heart sickness |
and suicide. The young man who |
plays an unenviable part in the story
is still in Butte. He denies that he
is the author of the girls destruction
that he had any part in bringing !
about her downfall; but he recently
received a letter from her, dated at
Helena on July Is, which contained
her photograph, and was q pititul
exhortation to be true to his prom
ises and rescue her from the life Of
sin into which she had entered. Upon
receipt Of the intelligence of the
girls suicide on Sunday evening,
the young mai became greatly ex-
and after IA unsuccessful at
to drown his troubles in deep
declared his intention to
in the suicidal footsteps of the
the ruined girl. He attempted to
borrow: a revolver from several
saloon keepers on east Park
but in each case his %perturbed
manner led to 4 refusal. Finally at
about nine o'clock Sunday night he
left one of the saloons with the de-
determination to find a way to
accomplish self-destruction. Fearing
that he weuld carry out his threat,
one of the bar keepers followed him.
After going a short distance TO-
Noyes & Upton's reservoir
he broke into q run and his follower, |
divining his intention to drown him
self, closed in on him and succeeded
in overpowering and taking him to
his room, where he again undertook
to secure possession of q revolver, but
finally quieted. The young
man is we'll known and comments
freely made upon the streets
yesterday, many expressing disap-
of the course pursued by |
the man who probably rescued him
from a watery grave, others express
ing regret at his lack of success in
a revolver, and there
seems to be a general skepticism as
to the young mans inability to &C
complish his fell designs upon his
own life, had the purpose been sufi-
GENTLY strong.