The Washington times., 1922-11-06
ONE USED
SHEET AS
. A MOOSE
Other Shot Herself While Hus-
band, a JeweIer, SIumbered
on Back Porch.

The wave Of suicides still sweeps
ever the city. Two women ended
their lives yesterday, one by hang.
ing and the other by firing
bullet into her brain. This makes
. total of ten suicides or attempts
at self destruction in the Distric,
during the past seven days.
Hangs Self With Sheet.
Making a moose from strips torn
from a bed sheet. Mrs. Jennie B,
Hills. fifty years old. wife of Percy
B. Hills patent attorney, of 1859 Co
lumbia road northwest, hanged her;
self yesterday in a room at 81.
Elizabeth's HOSPITAL for the Insane.
at Congress Heights, where she had
been patient for several months
Discovery Of the lifeless body was
made by Miss Maude Vaught. a
nurse in attendance on Mrs. Mills,
According to Mr.. Hills statement to
the police. his wife a year ago
under went on operation from which
she never completely recovered.
Her mind is said to have been men
tally deranged as a result OF worry
over the unsuccessful operation,
and It became necessary to send her
to the hospital for treatment.
Physicians at the hospital declare
that Mrs. Hills had frequently
threatened to kill herself, and for
this reason a careful watch had been
kept over her. Miss Vaught. her
nurse, had been absent from Mrs
Hills room only about a half hour
when she found the patient a sui
eide. ,,
Beside her husband. Mrs. Hill is
survived by three children. Thomas
b. Hills. of New York, Miss Eliza
beth Hills, OF this city. and Pierce
B. Hills. student at Prince
ton University. Mrs. Hills was a
native of Elmira. N. Y.
Jewellers Wife Another Victim.
Continued i'll health also Is blam'
ed for the suicide of Mrs. Beulah
r. Redhead, forty.two years DID,
wife of George Alfred Redhead,,
local representative of the National
Jewelry Manufacturing Company,
who lives al 1902 Crittendon street
northwest. .-..
While her husband lay in a
hammock on the porch In the rear
of their home, Mrs. Redhead calm
ly reposed on couch in the liv-
ing room, about fifteen yards from
where her husband slept. and fired
q bullet from a large caliber re,
volver into her brain.
Awakened by the report of the
revolver shot. Mr.. Redhead has
tened into the house and found his
wife dying. Physicians from
Emergency Hospital were summon
ed, but when they arrived. Mrs.
Redhead was dead. After an in
vestigation of the tragedy by De-
tectives Bradley, Vermillion, Liv-
ingston and OBrien, DR.. j. Ram
sey Newt, District coroner. gave a
certificate of suicide. Policeman
Nicola, of the Tenth precinct, who
was the first officer to arrive at
the house, said that just before
Mrs. Redhead died, she mumbled
that "she was tired Of life and
wanted 10 die"
Following an investigation of the
death of Mrs. T. A. Mcmahon,
seventy years old, who was found
asphyxiated from Illuminating gas
in her room at 40 Sixth street
northwest, yesterday mornin& DR..
J. Ramsay hewitt, District coroner,
rave a certificate of accidental
death. DIR. hewitt found that the
gas escaped from a defective
heater in her room. Mrs. Mcmahon
IA survived by son, John B. Me.
Mahon, of Providence, r. l., and a
daughter. Mrs. Charles Flemming,
NJ Rowie Md.