The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-29
SUICIDES IN
 LONELINESS Widow Too Sorrowful to Live Longer. MRs.Fox owENsKILLsHERsELF Eneeling, She Fires Ballet Through
 Brain. ps.posse.ey over Murder of Hsssaad Ressrdes ss Cause of Violence.
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Kneelinx spe- thS floor. and breath Eng, perhaps, a fervent prayor for re- union with her murdered husband. Mrs. Fox Owens. a young woman. 24 years of age pressed the cold muzzle of "a loaded revoived against her right tenn pie and pulled the trigger. The bul- let passed completely throukh the head. making it's exit under the left ear. Death must have resulted instantane- ously.
 The only cause that can be assigned for the tragedy is that the death of her husband. murdered less than year ago in Pike County. so preyed upon her mind. that she could find relief from her overpowering gr:ef only in death
 .'she had everything that heart could desire" said q member of the family yesterday afternoon in speaking of the pitffui happening.
 The tragedy was enacted at the res- idence of Mrs. !. W, Dennis. the mother of the deceased, e22 Clayton Street and the fatal shot was fired at about o'clock yesterday afternoon. No suspicion of the desperate intention of the unfortunate woman had been en- terta.ned by her kinsmen. The first intimation they received of the awful deed was the sound of the shot
 Walter Bates. nefgnbor, was the first person to enter the room where home by cries Of grief and alarm. he hurried to the house and entered the apartment W
 He found the body recunabent upon the floor, resting upon the back. A gaping wound in the right temple showed the kind of happening. A bullet was in the wall about one foot above the floor, and, the course of the wound being considered. the ball could have been fired only from kneeling position.
 A mirror was in corner of the room, and. in all probability, the de- ceased. after arranging her appear. ance for death. kneit down upon the floor. with her back to the mirror and flred the shot that resulted in death.
 Expected to Take Journey.
 Mfr. Cooley. brother-in-law of the deceased, states that about q half hour previous to the tragedy, he entered the room where Mrs. Owen was mak- ing preparations for trip she expect cd to take that same, afternoon to . point in Pike County. He told her that he was going to sleep. requesting that she wake him up in half an hour. This Mrs. owens promised, talking and act- ing Mir. Copley says. in perfectly natural manner. Thereupon he went to his room on the other side of the house, and lay down going to sleep in q few minutes. He was awakened by the cries of q member of the family and then learned of the tragedy.
 Mir. Copley says that he can imagine rIo reason for the act. unless it be the death of her husband which oc-. cured about one year ago, under most painful circumstances.
 A pail of deep gloom hung over the home of the unfortunate young woman yesterday afternoon. The family was xrief striclk ened and the mother was prostrated by the shock of the trag- edy. One of the sisters of Mrs. owens attempting to enter the room in which the body lay, despite the restraint of loving hands, tainted on the threshold.
 Mrs. Fox Owens was twenty four years of age. She was born in Brooke Alabama, and since the death of her husband, killed by negro . year ago. had lived in Montgomery with her mother.
 She is survived by four brothers: Alvin, Charles, Allen and Dennis, all of Montgomery, and Lamb Dennis, of Troy; by three sisters, Mrs. T. B. Cooley, and Misses Clyde and Annie Dennis, all of Montgomery.
 The funeral arrangements have not yet been made.