Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-02-08
STARTLING SUICIDE.
Young Lady shoots Herself Thro=-h
t.e Hcai-A singular and Distressing
CuS.-a Mystery TO he GuraVelcd.

Young Lady shoots Herself Throz-h
t!le ncai-A Singularand Distressing
CASA Mystery toh Onravelcd.
From the y. Y Times Of Saturday.
On Thursday night, aboUt 10l o'clock,
Miss Isabella Titus, a beautiful and
accomplished lady, eighteen years OF
age, committed suicide at No 3S West
Twenty-fourth Street, by shooting her
self through the head. Two months
ago she arrived in this city from her
home in Peilerill, Mass., ON visit to
her sister, Mrs Gertrude Galloway,
who boards mt the house named. For
the past four weeks she had been at
times extremely i'll, and occasionally
depressed in spirits, although she was
naturally Of cheerful, happy dispo
sition. She made several remarks
which at the time sounded strange to
her friends, but did not raise their
suspicious that she was meditating
self destruction.
| A few days ago She was walking with
her sister in Broadway. Her dress was
dragging III the mud, and her attention
! being called to the fact, she said IN n
! tone OF great depression: at makes
no difference; ] shall never wear it
again She had pistol Of the Smith
Il Wesson pattern, which friend IN
! Massachusetts,, with whom she had
! been accustomed to shoot at target,
/ had gwen AeTlast summer, but although
the fact OF herpossesslon Of the weapon
was well known to her friends, 1t did
not raise any alarm, especially MS they
! believed she had no cartridges to load
| II with
On Thursday Miss Titus was out
shopping nearly all day, and after re-
| turning home about 7 o'clock in the
evening was observed to be very much
depressed III mind. As Mr.. Galloway,
her brother-ln-law, was going up stairs
shortly after 7 o'clock, he heard a sound
TINT seemed to be the click of pistol
in the room of Miss Titus, and on
reaching his own room he said to his
wife that Isabella was loading her
pistol. Mrs Galloway said that it
could not be, as she had no cartridges.
This incident passed without further
remark, and later in the evening Miss
Titus wasin the parlor, where anumber
Of friends of the family We're assembled,
/ but her sadness Was not noticed
at the time About l05 o'clock she
/ lett the room, bidding the company
good-by, aud adding, " | shall see YOU
I no more, as | am going home to-mor
/ row. The remark seemed strange, as
/ she bad not previously announced her
intention, and Mrs. Galloway accom-
! panied her to her room and then
entered her own. Miss Titus then ran
down stairs again 10 the parlor, and
said Goodnight very plaintivelv to
| Mrs. Lewis, another sister also visiting
mt the house, after which she went up
stairs again alone, and sitting at the
top OF the flight from the third to the
fourth floor, with her feet resting on
the first step, placed the muzzle OF her
revolver to her right temple and fired.
The noise alarmed the house,
and Mrs Galloway, rushing from her
room, stumbled over the PROSTATE and
bleeding form Of the insensible lady
stretched upon the floor at the head OF
the stairs All the inmates of the house
were IN a moment gathered at the
sceue of the tragedy, and among them
DR.. !. +. Pray, who has an Office in the
house, but he saw ut n glance that she
WAS beyond surgical aid The bullet
had evidently entered the brain, and
The unconscious, but stu breathing
girl was carried into the room of her
sister, where, in an hour attcrward she
expired, without having returned to
consciousness.
Coroner Herman, assisted by DR.,
John Beach, yesterday afternoon held
an inquest IN the case, and the facts
which have been narrated having been
elected, Il verdict of death by suicide
was rendered, and the remains then
delivered to tue friends, by whom they
were last evening taken to Massachu
sets for burial. Deceased, who was
possessed of the most unblemished
character, was intending in short
time to return TO Detroit, which was
her native place, aud where she had
Speut some time in the Convent OF the
Sacred Heart about year ago, Her
I father died some few months ago, leay-
ing all Of his family in easy circum-
stances.
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