Bisbee daily review., 1908-01-28
SUICIDE BRINGS END
 ID DIVORCE CASE
Broken Hearted Wife Writes a Letter To Mother and
 Shoots Herself Dead.

ALBUQUERQUE Jan. ,25.-This is the text of the letter written by Mrs. Pearl Turner to her mother, Mrs. Charles Mausard, a few minutes be- fore she shot herself through the heart yesterday morning.
 Mama: When you find me don't let me go to the undertaken, do not get an expensive coffin, put me in pine box. What does it matter when one is dead. I would like to lie as near Harry as I can, God bless him. How I did for him. Then his father says l killed him. GOD FORGIVE HIM When people talks about me, mama, tell them I'm dead and gone to rest. l surely was not on earth I have been more sinned against than shining. Oh, my baby, I am leaving her. but better so, he would get her anyhow and cannot live without her. Carroll. please be kind to her if you were not to me. l am going.
 Mama forgive me for doing this act May God judge, not man. I hope ne will forgive Carroll I will be gone to be forgotten I hope my precious girl will never go through V and am not responsible. Mama let the children kiss me good bye and you and Charley, but don't let Car roll touch me. This is my last re- quest know you will keep Charley. They surely will not take him away \ from you. God bless you all/ and take care of you to stand this. You will be all that will grieve. who cares. No one. All that I have done for him what mercy does he show me. Oh, Carroll may God help you to under stand, probably you are not responsi- ble. I know l have suffered a thou sand deaths tonight; if he will only be kind and good to Winifred is my last request to aim.
 Good bye, Mama,
 PEARL
 The tragic sequel to a sensational divorce suit which has been pending before the district court for several days past came yesterday morning at 7:50 o'clock, when Mrs. Pearl Ham lon Turnes, aged thirty-two years. the plaintiff in the suit committed suicide by shooting herself with A. calibre Colts revolver, the bah pass ing a quarter of an inch below the heart and resulting in death within a few minutes after the shot was fired.
 The tragedy took place in Mrs. Turner's bed room in the residence oA her mother and step-father, Mir. and Mrs Charles Mausard, 623 North Sec ond street That the suicide was pre- meditated, and was not the result of an, impulse of the moment, seems to be borne out by the finding of box of cartridges on the dresser in the bed room. Two cartridges had been placed in the revolver, only one of which was fired.
 The tragedy was the direct result of the bringing to trial of a suit for divorce which Mrs. Turner filed some time ago against her husband, Mark Carroll Turner, carrier in the locaI postoffice.g In her complaint Mrs. Turner alleged cruelty and failure to support and prayed for a complete separation and the custody of her seven-yearsold daughter, Winifred. Turner at once filed cross complaint in which he alleged that his wife's character was not such that sac could be safely entrusted with the custody o1 the little daughter, and asking for the custody of the child. as we'll as of son, Charles Carol Turner, who is Nten years of age. Both children have made their home with their mother at the Mausard residence since the separation of their parents fn 1906.
 In his cross-complaint Turner cited instances in which he held his wife had shown lack of respect for her duties as wife and mother, and it is the belief that it was the effort of counsel for Turner to prove these charges in the court room which drove the unfortunate young woman to take her life.