The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1911-03-21
TRIES To TAKE
HER OWN LIFE
Abandoned Young Vile Attempts
Suicide in Greensboro
BRIDE OF ONLY FEW Weeks
The Young Woman Committed the
Act in ParIor of GuiIford Hotel at
Greensboro--she Sent Bullet
Into Her Brcast-Taken to Hos
pital in Precarious Condition.

| greensboro, Marcn 20--Mrs. Sadie
Royster, who a few weeks age
became the bride of Farror Roy
ster. of Greensboro. in the par
lor of the Guilford hotel at :
O'Clock Saturday afternoon sem
a bullet crashing through hei
right breast from a .32-ealiber ham.
merless Smith and Wesson pistol
and is now in precarious condition
at st. Leo's hospital. with chances fail
for her recovery. AS Miss Sadie
Mitchell. OF Burlington. the daughter
of A. c. Mitchell, a highly respected
contractor there, she was well known
here, and a month ago was married
to Farror Royster. son of G. II. Roy
ster. OF this city, who had been a
recognized lover for over two years
The day after the marriage the young
husband left his bride. and she las
been unable to find him or to get any
response TO her numerous and pitt
| ful appeals for his return. She has q
sister. Mrs. Ed Fowler, living here
and spent several days here in a vain
effort TO get in communication with
her recreant husband, who, it is re-
ported. has decamped to Texas. Mrs
Royster arrived here on the 1890
train from Raleigh, but what she did
between then and the time OF the
shooting is not known. She was seen
to walk into the Guilford hotel. al
the ladies' entrance on Sycamore
street. and in a moment a shot rams
out from the ladies parlor. near ths
entrance on this street. Hurriedly
going thither, in the darkened recess
of a corner near the piano writh-
ing. struggling, moaning object was
seen. as the curling sulphur-fumed
smoke wreathed lis cloak about her
and lazily unfurled itself over the
room. DIR. NJ. r. Fox. of Jamestown,
was one OF the first 10 reach the pros
trate body. Raising the unknown
up, she Immediately regained con-
sciousness and calmly said that she
hoped she was dying, as her husband
had deserted her and life was intoler-
able. Il am Mrs. Farror Royster,
she informed the fast thickening
crowd. u have written a note that
will tell everything and will explain
everything, and sent II TO young Sam
Bradshaw, his friend and my friend.
II tells all know and why ! did IL.
She gasped. and then falling over
into the physicians arms. she family
cried for water, just as the ambn-
lance arrived. and she was tenderiy
taken across the aisle and placed In
the vehicIe and hurried TO the hos
| pital.
II has been learned that when Mrs.
Royster arrived from Burlington she
went to a drug store Immediately
across the street from the Guilford
hotel, and. meeting young Bradshaw,
apparently by appointment, handed
him a note. telling him not 10 open II
until he heard from her. II was not
five minutes before she had fred the
bullet OF intended death. II has been
impossible 10 locate Bradshaw, as he
Is not yet to be found. though Il Is
known that he had only been acting
as mutual friend of the young
woman and her truant husband. Only
week ago he received long and
appealing letter from her. asking him
to find out his address. 50 she could
write 10 him and plead for his return.
Mrs. Farror RoysteT, who Satur.
day attempted TO kill herself with a
pistol while in the parlor OF the Hotel
Guilford. was resting well at st
Leos. hospital today. Her condi.
tion Il quite serious, however, and
last night she suffered considerable
pain. The ball entered the right
breast and passed through the lung
and lodged somewhere in her back
| II she intended shooting through her
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