The Washington herald., 1922-11-06
One WOMAN HANGS
SELF; OTHER ENDS
LIFE BY BULLET
Mrs. Jennie B. Hills Fires
Ball Through Neck at
Home in Northwest.
EACH IN ILL., HEALTH
Mrs, Beulah Redhead, at st.
Elizabeth's, Makes Moose
From Bed Sheet.

Two women, both prominent in
Northwest circles. took their lives
early yesterday morning. one by
hanging herself to the transom of
her room at the st. Elizabeth Hos
pital and the ohter by shooting her
self through the neck at her home.
The dead are:
Mrs. Jennie r. Hills, so years old,
wife of Percy b. Hills. well known
patent attorney. 1863 Columbia road
northwest.
Mrs. Eeulah II. Redhead. 4. years
old, wife Of George Alfred Redhead,
local representative of the National
Jewelry Manufacturing Company,
1902 Crittenden street northwest
Making a moose from strips torn
from bed sheet. Mrs. Hills, an in
mate at the ST. Ellzabeth's Hospital,
hanged herself in her room in the
receiving building. Her body was
found by her nurse. Miss Maude
Naught. who had been called sud-
denly fro mthe woman's bedside. If
teen minuts arlir.
Despondent Over Health
Dependency. due to ill health, is
said to have caused Mrs. Redhead
to shoot herself with an old Co.
lonial-type .41-caliber revolver. a
relic of her fathers. as she lay on
couch in the rear of the first floor
of her home, within fifteen yards of
the place where her husband was
sleeping.
Awakened by the shot, the hus-
band, who had been occupying a
hammock on the rear porch rushed
into the house and found his wife
dying from bullet wound in the
neck. She was pronounced dead
upon her arrival at Emergency Hos
pital.
Detectives Bradley, o'Brien. Yer
million and Livingston and Motor
cycle Policeman Nocoia, of the
Tenth precinct, who responded, held
the husband until Coroner DIR. ].
Ramsey Nevitt issued a certificate
Of suicide. A diagram of the house
and the positions which both Red
head and his wife Occupied at the
time Of the shooting, was taken by
the police.
Mrs. Redhead recently underwent
several operations from which she
was unable to recuperate. This is
said to have preyed upon her mind.
As she was dying she told Motor
cycle Policeman Nicola she was
tired of life, it is said.
She was a prominent club wom-
an of the Northwest. Besides her
husband. she is survived by one
daughter, Jane Lenore Redhead, 10
years old. Funeral arrangements
have not been completed.
Illness Caused Deed,
Mrs. Hills act is said to have
been prompted by a serious ILL.,
ness of more than a year ago. She
was an inmate of the hospital three
months. Previously she had been
treated at the Johns Hopkins Hos
pital. Baltimore
According to DR.. White, in charge
of the hospital. Mrs. Hills hsd
repeatedly threatened suicide. From
the time of her admittance she had
been watched almost constantly.
A native of Elmira. N. Y, Mrs
Hills came to Washington at an
early age with her parents. Her
father. Lewis d. Stone. who was
well-known lumber merchant,
died twenty-five years ago.
Besides her husband. Mrss. Hills
is survived by three children, Thom-
as C. Hillss. of New York: Miss
Elizabeth Hills and Pierce B. Hills.
student at Princeton.
Funeral services will be held at
the Church of thhe Covenant. Eight
eenth street and Connecticut ave.
nue. northwest. tomorrow afternoon.
Burial VII be In, Rock Creek Gem
efery.