The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-27
MISS PORTER KILLS HERSELF Montgomery Girl Dies at
 Quitman, Ca. CONTINUED ILLNESS CAUSE She Was Subject to Fits of
 Dependency. sweetheart ceminE te see Her Learns
 of Dessh ct Her ae.isenee-- v Last Letters Not Yet Published.

ouitman, Ga, Jan. 2s.--(Special. )-- Miss Clyde P. Porter, a we'll known young woman of Montgomery, Ala. killed herself here early this morning in. the home of her friend. Mrs. L. E. Barton. by shooting herself in the right temple with pistol. When her sweet heart arrived in Quitman this morning with the purpose of spending the day with her. he first learned that she was dead and was given q note, which 1t is assumed told him of her determine tion, to kill herself, and her reasons for suicide.
 Neither the contents of that note nor the import. of agletter she wrote to her sister, Mrs. Johnson, of 23 Noble Av- enue, Montgomery. have been made public. but 1t is believed that despond- ency resultant from continued i'll health was the cause. Her body will be shipped to Montgomery for interment.
 The suicide of Miss Porter was dis covered about. o'clock yesterday morn ing when Mrs. Barton. of whom she was a guest, went to awaken her. Mrs. Barton entered her room and there found terrifying spectacle: The young woman, only 26F years old, lay dead upon her bed. About her were the stains of blood and, upon her pn- low was the pistol with which she had ended her life, At that time her body was still warm, and it Is assumed thar ' she must have shot herself between and 6 o'clock. 6#
 She had written two letters. One of them was to her sweetheart. the other to her sister, and in each of them she told of her reasons for terminating her brief existence on earth.
 That Miss Porter had carefully plan ned to kill herself is evident from her acts Saturday, To the Chief or Folice of Quitman friend. she had applied Saturday afternoon for the loan of a revolver and he declined to lend 1t Afterwards she went into the shop of an undertaken and selected e cofiin: to the undertaken she said that, she was sick and expected soon to die and wish : cd merely to indicate what she should be buried In.
 For many months she has suffered from physical ailments and finally. perhaps. she believed that she could no longer endure the strain of the extend ed illness. This fact, 1t is believed, will be discovered to have been ex- pressed in the letters she wrote.
 MonfgOmery Kinsmen Know Little.
 From kinsmen in Montgomery yes- terday but rneagre facts could be learn- ed. They had received one telegram in which the mere fact of her suicide was accounted It was said. however. that she had long been III and that her ill., ness was undoubtedly the cause of the uncontroifable impulse- to end her sui. ferings.
 Miss Porter for some time lived fin Montgomery with her sister, Mrs. John son, at 2S Noble. Avenue. At the time of her death she was visiting Quitman as the guest of her friends. Her pa- rents formerly lived there but now are resident. in Montgomery.
 The arrangements of the funeral had not been reflnitely recided last night. It was stated that when the funeral party arrived in the city from Quitman the intermerit would at once be made in Greenwood Cemetery.