Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-06-30
SUICIDE OF One
OF The DEMI-MONDE
DespOndent Woman Sends Bullet
Through Her Heart

A of the demi-monde known
as "Pansy," but whose real name is
said to be Maud L. Walker, committed
suicide last Thursday morning about 8
o'clock by shooting herself through the
heart with a .38 caliber johnson revolt
yer. This woman, who was from APP
pearance between 20 and 80 years of
age, came here about three years ago
(from whence nobody knows) and con-
Quoted a bordel in the tenderloin quar-
ter until she went into the dance hall
on lower Main street, eking out the
precarious and dissipated existence of
those of that ilk.
On the fatal day she had been drink
ing heavily, and shortly after she had
gone to her room a heavy fall was
heard. AS the unfortunate was
subject to fits, in which she often fell
and writhed, those about the place at
once went to the room to render her
assistance. The door was found to be
locked, and a peep rel the transom
revealed the state of affairs. The door
being forced open she was found lying
on the floor with the life-blood gushing
from a wound in the region of the heart
while the smoking pistol lay on the floor
beside her. Strange to say, nobody
had heard the shot-only the fall.
Judge Brissell, ex-officio coroner, was
at once notified and the remains were
removed to the undertaking parlors of
Wonacott & Hall. At IL a. m. a jury
was impanneled and an inquest held,
the jury rendering a verdict of suicide.
As stated above, it appearedfrom the
evidence that the woman had been
drinking excessively and was thorough
ly respondent. That the sequel was
premeditated will be seer by the fol-
lowing pathetic Indictment which she
had left in the room of the bartender
of the place:
my dear boy: l think | have finally
got up courage enough to leave this
world for parts unknown. 1t may be
for better or perhaps for worse. /
think | have told you more about my
self in the last day or so than you
guessed at before, and perhaps you will
understand. can't just go on living
this way, and, as you said yesterday,
'twould be better to be dead.
Nov, dear boy, please do what
have asked you: Leave this life alone
tbs not for such as you to play with,
it is too dangerous, | would like to live
to see you quit it all, but that may moi
be, for must go while yet have the
nerve.
"Do not feel bad about it, for you
know | will be better off dead. Mine
has been a bitter, stormy life-hov
stormy words are too weak to convey.
God (if there is one) alone knows the
misery, the wretched anguish of the
past few years of my life. have nc
one who cares for me, and if you are
questioned do me one last favor by tell
ing them | am an orphan without kill
or kin, otherwise they may notify th'
people who raised me, and that woulC
be useless.
"Well, dear, | wish you my last fare
well. God bless you-and keep you
near; and for your dear old mother
sake (f not your OWN be a good boy
yours till death,
"Pansy."
AS will be e the letter was no
dated, nor did she mention the name o
the party to whom it was addressed
On her bed was found a novel, entitled
/, Thrown Upon the World" TIL
volume was opened at a page on whic
was marked in lead pencil a paragraph
particularly applicable to the woes an
f. sequel of fallen women 1t would seel
. that she had been bordering over ths
particular passage until she final
summed up sufficient courage to dra'
e the veil of mortality over her wretche
existence-a sad commentary on II
5 frailties of womankind when they ono
forsake the straight and narrow pal
of virtue for the alluring labyrinths
n harlotry.
The remains were inferred in Il
cemetery in this place yesterday.