Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-26
LIFE LOSES CHARM EARLY
Fourteen Ysar-old Girl Becomes DsspOnd-
emit and Attempts Suicide,
INJURIES INFLICTED ARE NOT FArAl
uss Disagreement with mother and
Breaks with Youthful Lover, the
Two cOmbined Causing
Her 10 Lose Hope.

Dependent over her love affairs and feel
Ing herself lonely and friendless, li-Tear-
old Bonita Flint pressed the muzzle of a
revolver against several portions of her
body, while her mind dwelt on the ease
with which she might end her life by
merely pressing the trigger, when sud
denly the gun exploded and a bullet was
lodged in her left side. at 10 o'clock wed
nesday, in her room at the boarding house
of Mrs. ]. o. Stewart, 2423 Dodge street.
She then sprang out OF bed, having all
ready retired for the night, and running
out OF the room was cared for by other
occupants Of the house, who also notified
the police.
The girl told her attendants someone had
shot her through the open window and
then thrown the revolver into the room and
when the police arrived with Police Sur
geon Morsman, an investigation was made.
Offcer Sandstrom, however made UP his
mind the story was not true and OWNING
tho real circumstances Of the shooting re-
lated to the girl how she had done It, upon
which she confessed.
The bullet was OF small calibre. being but
% short. and when she had been re-
moved 70 the Clarkson hospital In the pa
troll wagon II was found to have penetrated
only to the muscles of the left side of the
ency, the young girl said her mother did
not love her anymore. that she was with
out friends and no one cared for her, so
she had thought Of taking her own life all
day She said she had secured the weapon
at house where she had visited in the
afternoon and took II home with her, plac-
Ing It under her pillow when she
retired. After she had turned out the light
and laid down she said she took
out the revolver, fingered with Il.
and thought OF how easy Il would
be to die, when she must have pulled the
trigger too far without really intending to
discharge the gun. when she heard the
report she threw the revolver on the floor
and rushed out. Suicide not being her
purpose, she decided TO give the impression
she had been shot from outdoors.
Disagreement with Mother.
Miss Flint is an unusually attractive girl,
and daughter of Mrs. b. c. searle. The
two have been boarding at the Dodge
street house for some time. The daughter
had been employed at the once of DR..
o. A. Peterson in the Neville block until
Tuesday, and was to have taken another
position Wednesday, Either she failed to
secure the position, or as she herself said,
she wished to take few days vacation,
for she did not so to work. and according
" ONhOis III the mousse tnS rOlnef ana
daughter quarreled over this.
A letter was found in the room addressed
TO the daughter from young man named
Fred Swanson. This indicated the two
had been youthful lovers, but that she
had turned him down" under pressure
from her mother. The letter accepted her
action. but also chided her for taking It.
The enforced rejection OF her sutton the
quarrel with her mother, and the resultant
bleak outlook is believed to have been toe
much for the young girl. and death was
not distasteful to her.
The mother was not at home when the
shooting took place and did not arrive
until about two hours afterward. when her
daughter was at the hospital. Mrs. searle
said she is employed as trained nurse.
Miss. Flint will be Il years old next Sat
urday and for her age showed a degree OF
womanly modesty and sense, and her tale
bore evidence of such pitiable distress that
even the hearts OF the police officers, ac
customed as they are to scenes of thi.
nature, were deeply touched. At the hos
pltal II was stated the girl will undoubtedly
recover.