Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-02-01
STARTLING SUICIDE.
L Young Lady Shoots i1crstl1 Through
the HesQrA SIN = liar arid Dist 4
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From the n. Y. Times Of Saturday,

From the N. Y: Times Of batiudsy,
On Thursday night; about 1o1 o'clock,
Miss IsaPella Titus, d beautiful and
accomplished lady; eighteen yeatA 81
age, committed suicide at No. 50 West
Twenty: fourth Street; by shooting her
self thtough the Head: Two, months
ago she arrived iii this city from her
home in Pefferill, Mass., on a visit u
her sister, Mrs. Gertrude Galloway,
who boards at the house named. Fol
the past four weeks she had been at
times extremely ill, 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 qgo she was walking with
hef sistef Ii Broadway: Her dress was
dragging in the hlud, and her attention
being called to the fact, she said in a
tone of great depression: "1t makes
no difference; ! shall never wear it
again" She had a pistol of the Smith
& Wesson pattern, which q friend in
Massachusetts,, with whom she had
been accustomed to shoot at a target,
had given herlast summer, but although
the fact Of her possession of the weapon
was we'll known to her friends; it did
not raise any alarm, especially as they
believed she had no cartridges to load
it with:
Oh Tihafsday Miss f':iitds was out
shopping nearly all day, and after re-
turning home abort 7 o'clock in the
evening was observed to be very much
depressed in mind. As Mr.. Galloway,
her brother-in-law, was going up stairs
shortly after Z O'Clock, he heard a sound
that seemed to be tkS c1tk 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 wasi in the parlor, where anumber
Of friends of the family were assembled,
but her sadness was not noticed
at the time. About 10} O'Clock she
good-by, and adding, II shall see you
no more; a. 7 am going home to-n1or-
row." The remark segmed strange; AZ
she had 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 TO the parlor, and
said Goodnight "very plaintively to
Mrs. Lewis, another sister also visiting
at the house, after which she went up
stairs again alone, and sitting at the
top Of the fight from the third to the
fourth floor, with her feet resting on
the first step, placed the rauszle Of her
revolver to her right temple and fred.
The noise alarmed the house,
and Mrs. Galloway, rushing from her
room; stumbled over the piostrate and
bleeding form of the fnsensible lady
stretched upon the floor at the head IF
the stairs. All the inmates Of the house
were in a moment gathered at the
scene of the tragedy, and among them
DIR. J. P. Pray, who has an Office in the
house, but he saw at o glance that she
was beyond surgical aid. The bullet
had evidently entered the brain; and
the unconscious, but still breathing
girl was carried into the room of her
sister, where, in an hour afterward 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 bean
elected, verdict Of death by suicide
was rendered, and the remains then
delivered to the friends, by whom they
were last evening taken to Massachu-
setts for burial. Deceased, who was
possessed of the most unblemished
character; was intending in q short
time to return to Detroit, which was
her. native place; and where she had
spent some time in the Convent of tile
Sacred Heart about q year ago. He'
father died some few months ago, leav-
ing all of his family in easy circum'
stances.