THE FLAGLER TRIBUNE
Bunnell, Florida
Thursday, February 20, 1936
Francis McLeod, 14-year-old girl living with her mother and baby brother on the Cunningham place in the Bimini section, attempted suicide last Sunday afternoon by shooting herself through the abdomen with a 16-guage shotgun.
According to officers who made investigation, the child was subject to fits of despondency and after some disagreement with her mother took gun, walked a short distance from the home and shot herself by placing the muzzle of the gun on the lower right abdomen, leaned over the gun barrel and pulled the trigger.
She had written a not to her mother saying “ . . . blame nobody for this but Francis.”
She was carried to the East Coast Hospital in St. Augustine and last reports indicate that there is a possibility of recovery.
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THE FLAGLER TRIBUNE
Bunnell, Florida
Thursday, February 27, 1936
Funeral services for Frances Virginia McLeod, who died in the Flagler Hospital in St. Augustine Friday, were held Sunday afternoon in Palatka at which place the body was buried.
The 14-year-old girl died as a result of self-inflicted gunshot wounds, she declaring in a note left for her mother that no one should be blamed for the act other than “Frances.”
She is survived by three sisters and one brother.
The girl lived on the Cunningham place in the Bimini section with her mother, Mrs. Maggie McLeod, who formerly were residents of Georgia, but have lived here for about three months.
