The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-08-19
NO FURTHER LIGHT
ON WOMAN'S MOTIVE.
O. c. Hinson Admits That He
and Mrs. Leonard-Brown
Had Kept Company.
AN END TO ROMANCE?
Believed She Killed Herself
Immediately after Talking
With Bartender.

No light was thrown on the suicide
of Mrs. Elizabeth Leonard Brown ~,
OF - North Fifth street who was found
dead yesterday afternoon with . bull
let wound through her breast, by the
note which she left Guy c. Hinson. a
bartender at Patterson's saloon. The
note was not made public. but Hinson
said she had written that she was GO
ing TO end her life.
Coroner Pierce believes that the
woman was respondent when she end
ed her life, Although II has been re-
ported that she had secured a divorce
from her husband. Mr.. Brown. there
is no record of il at the court house.
That her act ended a romance with
Hinson is the belief OF the coroner.
Hinson has been keeping company
with the young woman for four years,
he stated last night Il have been wait
ing for her all this time" he said last
night after he had read her note. Il
left her at 1918 yesterday noon and
she seemed TO have no intention then
of committing suicide.
II is believed that after leaving Hin
son, she walked through the house and
went to her room where she must have
written the note at once. The ink and
writing materials had been put away.
On the envelope which was addressed
to Mr.. Hinson, she had written:
please take this TO him at once"
Was Married Twice.
Mrs. Leonard Brown was well
known. Her first husband. Mr.. Leon
ard, died shortly after their marriage.
Coroner Pierce stated that death was
instantaneous. The bullet did not en-
ter her heart, but cut through the large
arteries directly above it. The bullet
remained in the body. 1t is thought
that she shot herself about 1880
o'clock.
Found by Daughter.
The body of Mrs. Brown was found
at o'clock yesterday afternoon by
her eight-year-old daughter. Lucille. AS
the little girl had not seen her mother
since noon. she believed the latter had
been sleeping and called TO her. AS
Mrs. Brown did not awaken. and be-
cause she was lying across the bed on
her back. the girl became frightened
and when she saw the revolver. ran
downstairs and called Mrs. Browns
mother. Mrs. Ella Ellen Leonard.
Mrs. Leonard. re-assuring the little
daughter that her mother was asleep.
went TO the room. The mother of the
dead woman. seeing the half open
eyes of her daughter, the note, re-
volver and handkerchief on the bed
and the position of the woman. called
TO her frantiically. Then she seized
her hands and arms and shook her
before realizing that she had shot her.
self
Mother Became HysterieaI.
Mrs. Leonard became hysterical and
ran downstairs. screaming that her
daughter had killed herself. Neigh
bors were at once attracted to the
place and Frank Carter. a fireman at
the city building. came to the house
and took charge of the body until the
arrival of Patrolman Henry vogel-
song.
Muffied the Sound.
It is believed that Mrs. Brown shot
herself while standing beside the bed
in her room, which is isolated from
the rest of the house and is only ac-
cessible from a back stairway. That
she used the lace handkerchief to
muffle the sound Of .he revolver Is
also believed by those who made an
examination as the shot was not heard
by anybody II was evident that she
had wrapped the handkerchief around
the chamber of the revolver, which
was the property of her first husband
and had been hidden under the mat
tress of another bed by her father IL
was fully loaded when she shot her.
self and only one cartridge was ex-
ploded.
There was no blood any place ex-
cept on the shirt waist which Mrs.
Brown was wearing.
Body Returned to Home.
When her body was carried from
the house her mother, Mrs. Leonard,
became more hystericaI and screamed
and ran from the rear OF the house.
where a number OF women had been
trying to quiet her. She was held by
several men while Coroner Pierce tel
ephoned to the undertaking establish
ment in charge and requested that
the body be brought back TO the home.
II was Immediately returned Mrs.
Leonard was placed under the care OF
physician. -..-a