Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-08-01
SAN ANTONIO
TEXAS SUICIDE
Was Niece Of The Late DR.. R.
W. Ware, With Many
Relatives Here.

( ceived concerning the death of Miss
Elvira Davis. aged 40, of San An
4 tonia, Texas, who committed suicide
at Galveston. Miss Davis was a
niece of the late DR.. r. w. Ware and
the late w w. Ware, of this city,
and has many relatives here Of prom
inence. Her mother was Mrs. Annie
Ware Davis. A report was sent out
from Galveston limiting at murder,
but letters received by relatives
clearly establish suicide as the
cause of death. A San Antonio pa
per sent to the Kentuckian by Park
Heaton, formerly of Hopkinsville,
gives these details:
A letter received from Mrs. Banks
Lowrance at Kerrville. niece of Miss
Davis, definitely proves that the Gal
weston officials are wrong in their
theory Of murder, that the act was
carried out just as twas planned
and that the woman is Elvira Davis.
The letter was mailed from the
train Sunday night en- route to Hous-
ton, and received by Mrs. Lowrance
Monday afternoon. On Tuesday Mrs.
Lowrance received a suitcase from
Miss Davis containing some of her
belongings. This was shipped Mon
day afternoon from Houston. This
shows that she was on her way to
Galveston, where she probably ar
rived Monday night. Tuesday morn
ing the body of Miss Davis was
found on the beach washed up by
the tide, which corresponds exactly
with her statement that she was
going to the sea, where she would
swim out as far as she could and end
it all with her little repeater.
NO FEAR OF DEATHS
The following is an extract from
the letter received by Mrs. Low
rance:
TRY to be patient with me. Il
tried for six months to fight along,
bat | can't keep it up. This rheu-
matism has taken hold of me like it
has your Aunt Georgia, only not so
bad yet. She had me to help her
along, but have no one and will not
go through a siege of sickness with
only friends, no matter how good. |
have no end of good friends, as well
as my little niece, but they, like you,
have their hands and hearts full, and
tedious old maid has no demand
upon them. | do love each of you,
and don't think because have not
visited you that | am Indifferent,
but | have been more tied down than
| can tell you. Mr.. Breckenridge is
as good as can be, and it is not on
account of any harshness of his or
any scandal or any romance in my
life. It's just simply this work-a-
day world that wears one out sooner
when they haven't a good home life
of their own people in which to |
relax.
Don't worry about what am
doing. By the time you get this it |
will be all over, and | really begin to
feel better at the thoughts of the |
ordeal being over. If there is God, |
a father of us, surely he can under
stand why we do these things. We
did not ask to come into this world,
and IN my case it is not as if had a |
family to grieve and suffer from my
selfish act, if it is selfish. 1t would
be if had others depending on me
in any way, and a good father does
not expect Us to stand more than we /
are able.
Miss Eleanor is not here. and no
one knows as much about what / am
doing as you will. | am mailing this
on the train that is taking me to the ,
deep sea with my little repeater. |
There | shall take long swim out
with it and then all will be over with
out sensational headlines of suicide
or a missing woman. for the tide viii