The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-08
HORRIBLE SUICIDE.
Sunday Morning Mrs. Capt. VIM. A.
Wright Takes Her Own Life.

Early Sunday morning the town
was excited over the report that
Mrs. Capt. VIM. A. Wright had shot
herself with a revolver about BIS
that morning.
But few people would believe the
report, and soon great crowds of
people were gathered about the
residence on First street, to find the
report too true.
Drs. w. P. Neale, and L. "
Guthrie were hastily summoned,
but on their arrival found her past
all medical skill, to save her life.
A REGISTER reporter was soon at
the scene of the suicide, and on in.
vestigation gathered the following
particulars of the sad affair:
Her step-son Gus. A. Wright,
said that he went home about II
o'clock Saturday night and every
thing seemed right with his mother,
and when he got up to retire to his
room, she called to him and request
ed him to leave the room unlocked,
as she might need him during the
night. He then babe her good
night, and left her in care of the
hired girl who slept on lounge in
the room with her. Early in the
morning he was aroused by the
girl, and on hastily going to the
room found his mother in a pool of
blood and dying.
She had fired three shots from
a revolver from under the bed
clothes, which muffled the noise,
and the bed clothes were set on fire
from the discharges.
One shot took effect in her right
breast, the other in the bed clothing.
The first shot was fatal, and she
died in about 20 minutes after the
shooting.
From the best information our
reporter could gather, about three
weeks ago she had given birth to a
child which died in a few minutes
after birth. The loss of her child
was heavy blow to her, and she
constantly called for it and bewailed
its loss.
The death of this, her first child,
so preyed upon her mind that it un-
balanced it, and drove her to COM
nit the rash act.
Capt. Wright, her husband, had
gone up to Raymond City Saturday
night on the late train, and did not
return until Sunday afternoon ON
the Stanley. A telegram was sent
to him at Raymond but he did not
get it, and was no. aware of the sad
fate of his wife, until friend APP
prised him of her death as he was
proceeding toward home. He would
not believe the report, and could
not be convinced Until he entered
his home and found the wife to
whom he was so deeply devoted,
corpse.
The deceased was daughter of
DR.. Van Week, of Gallipolis. Tel
egrams were sent to her parents at
GalIipolis, who arrived here ycster-
day morning.
kilograms were also sent to her
sisters, and a brother at Hunting
ton, and all of them were here yes
terday and to-day.
Mrs. Wright was a woman who
was universally beloved by the
neighborhood in which she resided
She WAS good neighbor, a christ
ian woman, and friend to the
poor and needy
Her funeral will take place from
Trinity NJ. E. Church at 2 o'clock
p. m. to-day, and from thence herre
mains will be taken to Gallipolis for
burial
DIR. Barbee, Coroner, went to the
house of the deceased and officially
made an examination, and finding
it unnecessary to empanel a jury
made the following return:
THAT Mrs. Alice Wright, aged sc,
wife of Capt. VIM. a. Wright, OF
this city, and daughter of DR., j. A
VanNleck, of Gallipolis, Ohio, had
come to her death at her own resi-
dence, and in her own bed, at 3:15
a. m, May 5, 1895, with suicide in
tent by the discharge of one cham
Der of 81 calibre pistol, in her own
hand, ball entering breast and she
surviving but few moments"
Small POx.
We have one case of small pox in
town. 1t comes from a tramp. He
iS walI ouaro nfIpod prOtoctoJ onJ