Times June 9, 1912
Years of Suffering COULD STAND IT NO LONGER
Mt. Washington Matron Bids Husband Farewell
Mrs. Helene E. Cleaver, of No. 8 Eagle Rock drive in the fashionable Mt. Washington district, committed suicide by shooting herself through the brain, yesterday morning. Long-continued illness and despond-
ency resulting therefrom are given as the causes.
The dead woman was the wife of A. W. Cleaver, president and treasurer of the Lorbeer Electrical Supply Company, and the daughter of the late D. S. Shaw, vice-president of the National Bank of Long Beach.
Mrs. Cleaver was convinced that she would never recover her health. Arrangements had been made by her husband to take her to San Bernardino on an afternoon train in the belief that a change of scene and enviroment might prove beneficial. Before he left her in the morning she bade him an affectionate good-bye, and took occasion to express her gratitude for all that had been done for her.
"I know that I have not long to live," she said repeatedly. Later in the morning Mrs. Cleaver was seized with acute pain, and at 11 o'clock sent her maid from the room and going to a bureau took from its hiding place a revolver belonging to her husband. She pressed the muzzle of the weapon against the roof of her mouth and by the time the maid, startled by the shot, reached the boudoir, Mrs. Cleaver was dead. The body was taken to the undertaking rooms of John R. Paul & Co., where the funeral services will be conducted at 1 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
Years of Suffering COULD STAND IT NO LONGER
Mt. Washington Matron Bids Husband Farewell
Mrs. Helene E. Cleaver, of No. 8 Eagle Rock drive in the fashionable Mt. Washington district, committed suicide by shooting herself through the brain, yesterday morning. Long-continued illness and despond-
ency resulting therefrom are given as the causes.
The dead woman was the wife of A. W. Cleaver, president and treasurer of the Lorbeer Electrical Supply Company, and the daughter of the late D. S. Shaw, vice-president of the National Bank of Long Beach.
Mrs. Cleaver was convinced that she would never recover her health. Arrangements had been made by her husband to take her to San Bernardino on an afternoon train in the belief that a change of scene and enviroment might prove beneficial. Before he left her in the morning she bade him an affectionate good-bye, and took occasion to express her gratitude for all that had been done for her.
"I know that I have not long to live," she said repeatedly. Later in the morning Mrs. Cleaver was seized with acute pain, and at 11 o'clock sent her maid from the room and going to a bureau took from its hiding place a revolver belonging to her husband. She pressed the muzzle of the weapon against the roof of her mouth and by the time the maid, startled by the shot, reached the boudoir, Mrs. Cleaver was dead. The body was taken to the undertaking rooms of John R. Paul & Co., where the funeral services will be conducted at 1 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
Times June 9, 1912
Years of Suffering COULD STAND IT NO LONGER
Mt. Washington Matron Bids Husband Farewell
Mrs. Helene E. Cleaver, of No. 8 Eagle Rock drive in the fashionable Mt. Washington district, committed suicide by shooting herself through the brain, yesterday morning. Long-continued illness and despond-
ency resulting therefrom are given as the causes.
The dead woman was the wife of A. W. Cleaver, president and treasurer of the Lorbeer Electrical Supply Company, and the daughter of the late D. S. Shaw, vice-president of the National Bank of Long Beach.
Mrs. Cleaver was convinced that she would never recover her health. Arrangements had been made by her husband to take her to San Bernardino on an afternoon train in the belief that a change of scene and enviroment might prove beneficial. Before he left her in the morning she bade him an affectionate good-bye, and took occasion to express her gratitude for all that had been done for her.
"I know that I have not long to live," she said repeatedly. Later in the morning Mrs. Cleaver was seized with acute pain, and at 11 o'clock sent her maid from the room and going to a bureau took from its hiding place a revolver belonging to her husband. She pressed the muzzle of the weapon against the roof of her mouth and by the time the maid, startled by the shot, reached the boudoir, Mrs. Cleaver was dead. The body was taken to the undertaking rooms of John R. Paul & Co., where the funeral services will be conducted at 1 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
Years of Suffering COULD STAND IT NO LONGER
Mt. Washington Matron Bids Husband Farewell
Mrs. Helene E. Cleaver, of No. 8 Eagle Rock drive in the fashionable Mt. Washington district, committed suicide by shooting herself through the brain, yesterday morning. Long-continued illness and despond-
ency resulting therefrom are given as the causes.
The dead woman was the wife of A. W. Cleaver, president and treasurer of the Lorbeer Electrical Supply Company, and the daughter of the late D. S. Shaw, vice-president of the National Bank of Long Beach.
Mrs. Cleaver was convinced that she would never recover her health. Arrangements had been made by her husband to take her to San Bernardino on an afternoon train in the belief that a change of scene and enviroment might prove beneficial. Before he left her in the morning she bade him an affectionate good-bye, and took occasion to express her gratitude for all that had been done for her.
"I know that I have not long to live," she said repeatedly. Later in the morning Mrs. Cleaver was seized with acute pain, and at 11 o'clock sent her maid from the room and going to a bureau took from its hiding place a revolver belonging to her husband. She pressed the muzzle of the weapon against the roof of her mouth and by the time the maid, startled by the shot, reached the boudoir, Mrs. Cleaver was dead. The body was taken to the undertaking rooms of John R. Paul & Co., where the funeral services will be conducted at 1 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
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