Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-29
SUICIDE OF GIRL WAS FEARED
Mrs. Lamoreaux Warned Mrs. Dunn
About Bonnie Talbot.
FACTS COME OUT AT THE INQUEST
when Lovers Broke on GirI's Depres-
sIon Led Boys Mother 10 App
prehend Just what
Happened.

Please forgive me for coming to your
house TO do this awful thing. but I have
nowhere else TO so. Don't be sorry or wish
me back, because / am happier to die. You
know what l have had TO bear, so you
dont blame me, do you, dear? / love you.
You are the best friend I ever had. I'm
softly 10 cause you all this bother and
make such a mess. but my uncle will be
up mere and Will pay you for any damage
WIN you please see that I wear my little
pink silk. and don't let them wash me or
FUSS over me. / am all ready to be planted
except my dress. Have Sarry sell my pin
Try to comfort her, Dunnie. You know
now to cheer people up. Goodbye, dear.
/ love you. Ben.
Hide this so It won't get in the papers.
Word for word. the above was the letter
written by Miss Bennie Talbot about 2:SO
o'clock Tuesday afternoon. IN the home
Of her friend. Mrs. r. Dunn. at 4214 Burt
street.
After sealing and laying the letter on the
table this apparently flippant but dlscour-
aged girl Of %, went upstairs to the bed
room Of her friend, took the iatter's revolt
yer from under a pillow. placed herself
crossways of the bed and, with the muzzle
OF the pistol in her mouth. pulled the trig-
ger. One shot was sufficient, for when the
revolver was taken from her hand later
four chambers OF the five in the weapon
were still loaded. Having fired the shot,
Miss Talbot had crossed her two hands on
her breast. the right one still holding onto
the weapon.
verdict of the Inquest.
These salient facts were developed at the
inquest held at Heafey & Heafey's under
taking rooms Thursday morning and the
coroner's jury returned this verdict:
We, the jury, find that the deceased,
Miss Ben Talbot, came to her death by
revolver; and we further md the cause of
suicide to be dependency.
The jury was composed Of w. w. Wilson.
@. w. Nelson. A. Rubensten, William
Thomas, e. Motz. Joseph Teahon.
Miss Talbot had known just where to lay
her hands on Mrs. Dunn's revolver, be-
cause she had been a frequent visitor at
the Dunn home. II she had sought for IL
on the previous Friday, however, she would
not AVE found It. Mrs. Dunn testified
that on that day Mrs. Lamoreaux had
telephoned her to put everything away, as
Bonnie is liable to do something"
Mrs. Lamoreaux is the mother OF Doug
las Palmer Lamoreaux, the young man
who has been keeping company with Miss
Talbot and who Wednesday told the cor
oner's jury that he had been engaged to
her for about a month.
On the Wednesday evening preceding her
death Miss Talbot had called young Lam
oreaux on the phone at his home, because,
as he put it. "she thought l had been act
Ing funny lately During that conversa-
ton he told Miss Talbot he thought they
could not be happy together, that he did
not love her well enough that way" She
felt so badly over the result of her talk
ale NlAA - A.
evening the young man got his mother to
accompany him to the room of Miss Tai
bot and her mother. at 2l10 Douglas street.
Then they took her home with them for the
night, after she had dumbly Frustrated her
self on the bed in her own room, and
she slept with Mrs. Lamoreaux, or in her
room.
Warns Mrs. Dunn.
It was on the day following that the lat
ter called up Mrs. Dunn ana warned her to
put way everything hat might be dan
gerous. Mrs. Dunn testified she did hide
a bottle of carbolic acid, also her gun. as
she continually called 1t, under the springs
of a couch downstairs. Then the storm
blew over and on Monday night last the
revolver was resurrected and taken up
stairs to its accustomed place, Mrs. Dunn
explaining that she lived alone and had 1t
for protection.
On Monday evening the Talbot girl was
at the Dunn home and complained of being
sick. Mrs. Dunn ministered to her, but
saw nothing in the girls manner to indi-
cate that she should be watched. SO Mrs.
Dunn went away to her work on Tuesday
morning, and that was the last time she
saw the girl alive.
During the testimony Of Mrs. Dunn and
II Horace B. Sarson 1t was evident that
not all the vital history of the girls life
was being developed, but 10 one seemed to
care to probe any deeper than was neces-
sary. Assistant County Attorney Coad
was lenient in his questioning. the more
so, perhaps, because Mrs. Dunn was weep
Ing and hysterical, and at one point
swooned for a moment or two in the wit
ness chair.
Sarson had met the girl, as he first
spoke it. last Sunday night, but a moment
afterward he could not recall when he
had met her last. and had no sort OF idea
as to where the meeting occurred. He left
the stand still forgetting.
He IL "sarry."
This young man is the Starry who IL
requested to sell the pin and chain. He,
like all the rest, was familiar with the
revolver. as the whole bunch had been