The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-18
MRS. STEGALL KILLS HERSELF Loss of Health Leads to
 Death.
 - DECEASED WAS WE'LL KNOWN Was the Wife of Prominent Ala bama Citizen.
 
DECEASED WAS WE'LL KNOWN
Early Yesterday Morning Loving Mother Ana Devoted Wife Despair ing of Ever Regsining Health
 Ia Bath Room Takes Life.

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 Ozark. June 17-(speciai) i)--ozark was greatly shocked between 5 and $ clock this morning. when the news was flashed through the telephone ex- change over. the city that Mrs. Sallie May Steagall, wife Of Hon. Henry 5. Steagall, had died suddenly and un- expectedly at the family home on New. ton street.
 It was known that her health was impaired and she spent several weeks recently in an infirmary in Montgom- cry, where she underwent q sursical operation. On her return home she ap- peared much improved and her friends who hoped for her speedy recovery were shocked by the news of her sud den death.
 At the time. she was alone with her children and the house servant, MT. Steagall having gone to Montgomery on business He was wired at ms hotel. but had left and he knew nothing of his wIfe's death until he reached Troy on his way home.
 The report given ont by those familiar with the facts and circum- stances of Mrs. steagaits death Is that o'clock this morning. Respondent on account of continued ill-health and despairing of ever recovering she en- tered the both room of her nome with pistol and shot a hole through her head She never regained conscious ness and died two hours after the shot was fired.
 She left q note saying that she killed herself because of iil-health. and in ability to rear her cnldren- The note expresses the deepest Affection for her For soma time Mrs steaeall had been i'll and on yesterday she showeo signs of deep depression, saying that she was never going to get well. How ever. nothing was thought of 1t, and no one ever Imagined that she conten- plated the awful tragedy knat came with the early houFH ef the maFHing, She wan found n the bath room with the pistol ball wound in her head anq never knew or rscognized any one
 Mrs. ssteakali. left five children, the oldest, seven and the youngest ten months. She was sister ofsJoseph Q. Thompson, collector of internal revenue for Alabama, and head of the Republican state Executive Committees He is in Chicaso at he National Convention and has been wired to come home
 MT Steagall is Q member Of the Ala bafna Legislature and well known n all parts of the State. He was appointed gOl1citOf rDyc0oNSIuVI Coitt~- s-'-s. -- z member of the State Democratic Com mittee. ss z ,s&
 l The funeral arrangements have not been announced as some of the rela- | tives cannot reach Ozark before to- morrow. and Hon. J. O. Thompson, whc IlIs Attending the National Republican Convention at Chicago. cannot get nere before tomorrow night at 10 o'clock. !
 The following party will go down 1 from Tuskegee for the obsequies Wnicn will take place some time tomorrow Mr and Mrs. Ernest Thompson, Mist Mabie Massey Cleveland Thompson and John Thompson. All are relatives of the dead woman.
 Mr.. steaKaII in City When Wife Dies l Mir. Steagall was in MontsomerS
 when the news of Mrs. sallie May SteagalIs death was given him. Ht had come to Montgomery 70 transact
 business and his departure was depen'
 dent upon the completion Of his affairs
 here. Word of his misfortune passed
 quickly from friend to friend and th'
 exnressions of sympathy with him were
 many for he is almost as well knowr in Montgomery as if he lived here
 Roth as A member of the Legislature l ana as a court solicitor he is frequently an official visitor to the city.
 MT. SteagaIl so soon as ne had re
 ceived the message that Mrs. steasal had died, hastened to depart to Ozark
 Mrs. Steagall herself is well known 1T the city. She has often visited Mont
 gomery and has large numoer ol friends here. Recently sne recelvet
 medical treatment in a MontgomerS
 hospital, ..A | Those who went to ozark to attend the funeral in Ozark today are Mrs Mary Thompson, of Tuskegee. hei mother: MT. and Mrs, Ernest Thompson I cIeveland and John Thompson, Mis-
 Mabel Massey and Miss Lucy Phillips of Tuskegee; Mrs. F. M sheehan, o fMontRomery; N. L. Thompson o Mobile. J. o. Thompson who IS II
 Chicago to attend the Repunncan Na ttonai Convention, will arrive in Tus