Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-04-12
WAS TIRED OF LIFE,
Ida Reid Shoots and Kills Herself in
a Room Over Beal'S Store
Monday Night.
tThe Deceased Was a Young Woman
Of Abou, 20. a Former Resi-
dent of the City.
Tired OF IL DiSS0lute Life. She Adopts
Il Swift Means Of Reliev-
ing Herself.
nv the Pistol Route.

by the PISTOL ROUTE.
Ida +. Reid, an abandoned woman,
tired of life and a prey to remorse, shot
and killed herself in a room over Beal's
hardware store, at Z o'clock Monday
evening.
AS soon as the suicidal act had been.
committed, and while the woman was
still breathing with difficulty, DR.. f. R.
Smyth was summoned, but ere he
reached the place the woman was be-
yond medical aid and just expiring from
the effects of the self.inaicted wound.
The bullet entered slightly below the
collar bone, on the right side, and ranged
downward through the lungs, lodging in
the back, near the lower edge of the
shoulder blade aud just beneath the
skin, death resulting in a short time
from hemorrhage.
The unfortunate m was, perhaps,
between 20 and 25 years of age, and was
brought up in Bismarck and Mandan, to
which former city she came with her
parents when but a child. Her father
Was O. S. Reid, who is remembered by
many of the old residents of the city,
and who was at one time IN business in
Mandan. Her mother died a number of
years ago., and the girl was thrown OF
the world for a livelihood. Unfortunate
associations and circumstances resulted
in her ultimate downfall, and two or
three years ago she went astray and left
the city. She returned again about a
year ago and disappeared again shortly
a%fterward, returning to the city this last
time less than a week ago.
The woman had evidently meditated
suicide for some time, for in her stock
ing after death was found a note to her
father, begging forgiveness for her action
and asking him to pray for her salvation.
The note is dated April I, the day before
the suicide, and is written in a plain,
legible hand, and with such correctness
of construction as to show the m
was possessed of a fair education.
When the %coroner's jury, Messrs.
Livermore, Donnelly and Weeks,
arrived on the scene the body lay
where it had fallen. There is a suite of
rooms in the place-tWo front bed rooms,
then a hall, and back Of that a vacant
room, with bare walls and uncarpeted.
The woman had arisen from a bed in
one OF the front rooms and walked into
the vacant back room to fire the shot.
She was s~cantily attired, in a chemise
and skirt, and the former was powder
burned where the bullet had entered.
She lay in a pool of blood, and her
mouth and ~nostrils we're filled. where the
blood had gushed forth from hemor-
rhage. The jury examined the body and
surroundings, and afterward the effects
of the dead woman, which were not nu-
merous, including a scanty assortment
of raiment, some letters, and a few other
trinkets. The apartments we're also ex-
amined, and then the jury adjourned to
10 o'clock this morning.
In the morning, the %coroner's jury met
at the office of States Attorney Allen.
Testimony was given to show that the
dead girl had been i'll at Minneapolis a
few weeks ago, and has since then been
subject to hysteria, having more than