Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-30
WANTED TO DIE
BEAUTIFUL YOUNG GIRL SENDS
BULLET THROUGH HER BRAIN.
MANY THEATRICAL FEATURES.
"Had Wrecked Too Many Lives and
Must Cease"-Had Money
and Diamonds.

Minnie M. Wray, a beautiful young WO-
man. pressed a revolver to her temple
and sent a bullet crashing through her
brain. Scraps of a torn letter found
in the waste basket and put together
said the writer had wrecked to man
lives already and must cease" This
letter was addressed to A. N. Ohler. of
Moline, Ill Miss Wray came to the hotel
last Friday. She carried a small hand
grip. She gave the name Miss l.. GRAY"
to the clerk who registered for her and
When asked for her address responded
that Chicago Would do as we'll as any,,
She handed him the check for her trunk
asked to have it brought TO her i'm
mediately.
The death was encompassed by a num-
Der of theatrical features the young wo-
man having taken every precaution to
render impossible her identity. While
she entered the hotel attired attractively
and wearing a number of diamonds, moth
ing was found in her room but a coarse
black wrapper which she wore when she
killed herself. Her diamonds We're gon
only a single unset stone being found
upon the dressesr, where it had dropped
from her purse. She left a note to the
management of the hotel, directing them
to taxi them money from her pocketbook
to settle the hotel bill. She requested
especially that no effort be made to find
her relatives as she did not wish them
to know Of her deed.
Later it was learned that she had or
Saturday sent her trunk to Mr.. Ohler at
Moline. He is the cashier of the Ameri-
can Express company at that place. She
also wrote to him the same day, telling
him of her intention to kill herself.
Ohler received the letter yesterday. He
went to Davenport, a few miles distant
and called up the Palmer house by tele-
phone. thinking he might prevent the sui
eide if he could communicate with Miss
Wray. Unable to make the clerk under
stand him, he gave up in despair. A few
hours later he was told of her suicide.
It is supposed the satchel carried by
Miss Wray when she entered the hotel
with her rings and the dress she wore
were packed in the trunk and shipped to
Moline.
Ohler says he haw known Miss Wray
for ten years but claims to know nothing
of her antecedents. He said she came
to Moline about two weeks ago and stop
ped at the Windsor hotel.
Where she came from he does not
know, but she told him she had been
travelling for the past two years IN can
fornia, New Mexico and Arizona. Ohler
is of the impression that the girls pa
rents leave in L~eesville, Ind. and he has
heard her speak of a brother in Lincoln.
Neb. Further than that he knows moth
ing of her history.
Miss Wray was last seen alive Satur-
Gay evening Dy d WdllSI II tooA Az
supper to her room.
Nc response to knocks at the door Sat
uriay afternoon aroused the suspicion
Of the cllamber1naid. The hotel office
was notified and the private detective
burst open the door and found the wo-
man dead on the floor A mall pistol
lay near her. There was a hole in her
right temple, and it vas evident she had
been dead several hours.
On the linen and dresser there We're
blood stains, showing she had stood be-
fore the mirror to take aim. Where the
bullet had entered the skin was POWDER
burned.
In her purse where she said she had
left money to pay her hotel expense S,
We're found the cards of several persons
living in Los Angeles, Cal. Albuquerque,
n. NJ, Williams, Ariz. n Cleveland,
Ohio.
The letter. pieced together from the
fragments in the waste basket, reads
as follows:
All my regrets of no use. You will he
sad. | have tried to muster the nerve
to live to fight on, but it fails me.
have wrecked too many lives already
ana must cease. cannot be happy with
SO many mistakes on my memory, nor
can | forget them. The world has too
many sad people now. l nave no ambi-
ton, SO end all. If I fail in my attempt
today, perhaps l hall forget, but I
hope to be successful in ending all.
1T may be some one will write YOU re-
sardlng me, as l have to put an address
on my trunk. but l will send it to the
American Express mpan thereby
avoiding embarrassment to you if posi-
bic. Will send an order for it and the
key to YOU"
The letter was signed "Leona Graves"
chicago, April Ca special to the
record from Lincoln Nah a C Coo,ro
=, Wray of this city, brother of Minnie
NJ. Wray, was unable to advance any ex-
PLANTATION for his sisters suicide, She
resided here with him until six months
ago, when she went to Leesville. Ind.
where her parents reside. While in Lin
coin she did not appear Respondent. Her
brother supposed she was still with her
parents until he was informed of her
suicide in Chicago.