KATHERINE J. FONTAINE AKA WILLIE w. BRADFORD
Arizona silver belt
June 10, 1897

Katheirne J. Fontaine, better known as Willie W. Bradford 
committed siucide sometime between midnight Saturday and 
Sunday morning last, of shoots through the heart in her 
room at the Sand Wash.  The bullet from a 35 calibre revolver 
passed through the body and was found lodged under the skin on 
the back.  After firing the fatal shot she had evidently 
leaped from the bed on which she sat to a lounge across the 
room and then plunged headlong to the floor and was found 
doubled up against the door frame.  Death must have been 
almost instantaneous.

The deed was not discovered unitl about 1 o'clock Sunday. The 
woman had led a precarious life and despondency prompted her 
to self destruction. She left a request to be given a 
Christian burial which was complied with. The deceased was 
an Austrian by birth and about 30 years of age.

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