The Ouachita Telegraph - Mary Piatt Suicide

Date: Jul. 2000
Submitted by: Lora Peppers <lpeppers@ouachita.lib.la.us>

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The Ouachita Telegraph
Friday, November 24, 1876
Page 3, Column 1

“Rashly Importunate.”
A young woman named Mary Piatt, living in this city some two years, shot
herself in the abdomen Saturday night, and died from the effects of the
wound, after much suffering, about 48 hours afterward.  She came to this
place some two years ago from Caldwell parish, one of the unfortunate
sisterhood to whom reformation is always possible, yet seldom comes, as it
did not come to her, and pursued the phantom ease at the expense of her
character and with the sequel here recorded.  She intended, she said, to
have shot herself in the heart, but a friendly hand interposed, only however
to change the direction of the fatal bullet.  She received the consolations
of religion at the hands of Father Enaut of whose church she was at times an
attendant.

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