Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-02-27
THROUGH THE HEART.

laymen alike would do we'll to consider
THROUGH THE HEART.
A Sixteen Year Old Girl shoots Her.
self Through that Vital Part Today
and Dies Instantly.
| At half past two Wednesday afternoon
an Alert reporter called at Henry Busbs
boarding house on Main street and he
confirmed the report that his daughter
Minnie, about sixteen years old, had
suicided. Mr.. Bush, who is one of the
earliest pioneers Of jamestown and
highly respected citizen, was seated in the
front room of the house with one of his
little boys between his knees. On the
fathers face was depicted the anguish
that only heart sorely bruised can ever
| paint on strong, masculine features;
while the child, who was not old enough
to realize the tull, cruel meaning of
death, looked horror stricken and shurnk
closer to his protector in the presence of
one, whom his natural instincts told him
had come for another purpose than
merely to sympathise with those in dis
tress.
| Naturally Mr.. Bush didn't care to talk
much about the incident. He said, how
ever, that the sad affair must have oc-
Cured about eleven o'clock that day. At
that hour he was working at the barn
and his wife was down town. the deceased
having been left in charge of the younger
children. When Mrs. Bush returned
from town between eleven and twelve
O'Clock, she found Minnie lying dead on
the floor of her room. Examina ion
proved that she had used pistol 10 az
complish the act Of self destruction
and had aimed quite accurately at her
young, broken heart. When asked as to
the probable cause which lead to the
rash act, the father WINGED as If pain
ful wonnd had been roughly probed and
replied incoherently. He said that the
girl had been sick for two months past;
that she was high tempered, but that no
dome site nnpleasantness had occurred
recently; th It suiclding seemed to be a
hereditary trait, as a grandmother had
done the same thing, and only last sum-
mer cousin had also snapped the deli
cate ife-cord.
At the hour named, three and half
hours after the deed is supposed to have
been done, no physician had been sum-
moned, nor had the coroner been not1-
fed, SO it is impossible to give any accu-
rate technical information regarding the
case, either as to the nature of the wound
or the supposed cause which led to the
tragedy. There is a rumor, generally
credited, that this is repetition of the
same old sad story. In some unguarded
moment when the girl, sinless and unde-
, filed, was more under the Influence of
nature than the cruel, arbitrary laws of
custom, she yielded to mans entreaties.
The natural result followed. The girl
knew that the church and state had both
placed their blightlng touch upon this.
and unless a representative OF one or the
other had previously mumbled a few
senselt SIS words to the man and woman,
their whole combined influence would
be used to disgrace the latter, only.
| Rather than face this manufactured, ar
tihcal public scorn, she took her own
lfe-a strange mingling of bravery and
cuwardice.
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