The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-06-10
PISTOL BULLET
ENDS GAY NIGHT
After Dancing With Merry
Party, Mrs. Sinks Takes
Her Life
DEED COMMITTED IN
PRESENCE OF GUESTS
Without Warning Shoots Her
self in Breast and Falls
Dead on Floor of
Dance Hall

Following night of revelry and
dancing at the home OF M. J. Brock.
on the Cary Street Road, just out
side the city limits. Mrs. Annie l..
Sinks, a comely young matron of
Il years, and Il daughter of Brock,
Saturday morning at a quarter TO 8
o'clock, picked up revolver. pointed
IL at her heart and pulled the trig~
ger. DIR. +. IL. Martin, of Westhamp~
ton, who was summoned said that
death resulted Ia few minutes after
the ball pierced the woman's body.
When Mrs. Sinks entered the room
she seemed To be in her usual spirits.
In the room where the tragedy oc~
CURED were seated several OF her
itpss. who were on hand for Friday
nights dance. and had remained
through the night with the family.
Hide Revolver.
The family keeps revolver. Fri
day night knowing that a period OF
msrriment and practical joking would
ensue some OF the Older members of
the family as measure OF precan~
il in couch. Saturday morning.
while the visitors were waiting for
a street ear, some one found the PTS
tol, took IL from the couch aud laid
ii on the manteipteca
Presently Mrs, Sinks walked into
the room, having come down from
her own room on the second floor.
Giving no animation of what her pur-
pose was, she walked to- the mantei-
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Walking towards the door. She quick
y turned II toward her bosom aud
Hired, then reelea and fell.
Dr. Martin said that from tho dt-
rsctton the bullet took he inferred
that il Just missed the heart but sev~
cred the large artery leading from
that organ.
Arriving shortly after Dr. Martin
came County Policeman Eendall. of
Westhampton. He notified Or. II. y.
Lipscomb, who II acting coroner
temporarily In the place ~ Acting
Coroner j. Fuimer fright. pr, Lips
comb, after inquirng into the oircum-
stances OF the tragedy, said that no
inquest was necessary.
Separated From Husband.
Mrs. Shinks had separated from,
her husband and was living with her
parents. Her husband. Eddie ..
Shlnks, lives In Richmond, but his
wife and her people knew very little
of his movements.
TWO boys. one three years old and
one fifteen months, are left. She
Is also survived by her father and
mother and ten brothers and sisters,
= Mrs. Shjnls had stsa9 no spirit
of despondency calculated to prepare
her family for Saturday morning q
tragedy. She had on one occasion said
something about committing suicide.
but the remark Was uttered iestingty
and was 30 taken by those who heard
It 1t In supposed that fatigued from
the night OF festivity and with her
nerves unstrung from the unusual
strain on them. she was seized with
sudden wearin.ss with life and took
the fatal step that plunged her into
eternity.
Husband Unkiud "a Her.
The failure OF the young woman 4
husband to treat her kindly was give
as the reason for her lea dag him ahr
had been heard To remask that she
was n fool for evsr mar yins him
and she was only abolt seventeen
when she welded. In pecem baf .he
left her husband and wens 10 Eve
with her father and mother. A month
mr. SO later she went back to her hus-
hand, but 1t was only for n shor, time
after which she and her children
rejoined her parents again. Her IA
Their Is a carpenter.