Unknown County CA Archives Obituaries.....Clark, Annie December 5, 1892
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Oregonian December 6,1892
A Suicide
A Woman Without Money Ends Her Life With A Revolver
The details of the suicide of Miss Annie Clark,of Compton,Cal at the Gandolfo 
house at Tacoma,yesterday afternoon,have been received here.The lady has been 
positively identified by a prominent contractor of Tacoma,who says that the 
woman's mother keeps a boarding house at Compton,and that her sister is the 
wife of E.P. Bently,a retired lumber dealer,ex postmaster and ex justice of 
the peace of the same town.Miss Clark arrived in Portland on November 15 and 
left the city on November 17,but how she passed the time while here is not 
known.She left Los Angeles on November 10 and after remaining there for two 
days she came to Portland.She arrive in Tacoma evidently on the evening of the 
17th.While en route to Portland,it is said,she became acquainted with a man by 
the name of William Turnholm,an ocean steamer baggage man.Among her belongings 
was found an envelope bearing his address with a blank sheet of paper 
inside.The room in which the woman committed the fatal act was occupied by a 
traveling man by the name of Harry W.Clarke,to whom she seems to have applied 
for money for her fare to Seattle and a few meals.The two appeared to have 
been old acquaintances,and to have entertained some affection for each other.
When discovered in the lats gasps of death by the proprietor of the 
Gandolfo,Miss Clark was attired in a clean night robe,and this with,with her 
stockings and shoes,was the only garment she wore.She found Clarke's revolver 
under the pillow on the bed,and placing it against her heart,pulled the 
trigger.This is apparent from the fact that the garment and wound are slightly 
powder stained and Clarke's revolver lay beside her.The only motive for the 
deed seems to be the fact that she was out of money and had no outlook for the 
future.The woman is said to have had relatives all along the Pacific Coast

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