MRS. FRANK BLACK
Arizona Republican Newspaper
August 5, 1892

A telegram was received at the Republican office from 
Prescott yesterday announcing the suicide of Mrs. Frank 
Black of Phoenix at the Williams house about 5 o'clock 
yesterday morning.  The details of the self murder were not 
given and the cause was said to be unknown. Mrs. Black was 
divorced from her husband Frank Black about two years ago. 
He has since remarried and lives in a pleasant home on Madison 
Street opposite the West End school house.

He was visited yesterday by a Republican reporter and 
expressed sincere regret at the sad occurrence.  Since 
their legal separation the woman was nothing to him but he 
was anxious to do anything he could in this sad affair in 
memory of the happy times enjoyed by them before their 
estrangement.

Mrs. Black left Phoenix more than a year ago and went directly 
to Prescott, where it is said she has since been living with 
Gus Williams, a saloon keeper who lived here some years ago.  
Beside his saloon he is the proprietor of a lodging house, 
which was managed by Mrs. Black and it was in that house that 
she successfully courted death.

The dead woman had many friends but no relatives in this city 
of anywhere in the territory.  A married sister, Mrs. Johnson 
lives at Miles City, South Dakota. There are also two sisters, 
names unknown, one living at Salt Lake and another near 
Glenwood Springs, Col.

In the absence of any definite information as to the cause of 
the suicide her friends here believe it was ill health. For 
some years she has shown a tendency to consumption and three 
times since her residence at Phoenix she was believed to be 
at the point of death. It is known that she was greatly 
worried and depressed over her condition.

She was about 38 years of age and left no children.