Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-02-07
STARTLING SUICIDE.
A Young Lady Shoots Herself Through
the Heol-A Singular and Distressing
Cslse--A Mystery to be UnraveIed.
rom the N. 7. Times of Saturday

Case-A Mystery to be UnraveIed.
From the N Y Times of Saturday
On Thursday night, about 1OI o'clock,
Miss Isabella Titus, beautiful and
accomplished lady, eighteen years of
age, committed suicide at No SO West
Twenty-fourth Street, by shooting her
self through the head. Two months
ago she arrived in this city from her
home in Pefferill, Mass, on a visit to
her sister, Mrs Gertrude Galloway,
who boards at 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 a 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 in the mud, 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 istol of the Smith
& Wesson patter which friend in
Massachusetts,, v oh whom she had
been accustomed to shoot at a target,
had given her last summer, but although
| the fact of her possession of the weapon
was well known to her friends, it did
not raise any alarm, especially as they
| believed she had no cartridges to load
it 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 in mind AS Mr.. Galloway,
her brother-in-law, was going up stairs
shortly after o'clock, he heard sound
that seemed to be the click of "a 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 was in the parlor, where anumber
of friends of the family were assembled,
but her sadness was not noticed
at the time. About 104 o'clock she
left the room, bidding the company
good-by, and adding, 81 shall see you
no more, as am going home to-mor
row." The remark seemed strange, as
:. she had not previously announced hel
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, an0
said g Goodnight very plaintively te
! Mrs. Lewis, another sister also visiting
at the house, after which she went ul
stairs again alone, and sitting at the
top of the fight from the third to the
fourth floor, with her feet resting OF
the first step, placed the muzzle of hel
revolver to her right temple and fired
j The noise alarmed the house
and Mrs. Galloway, rushing from he1
room, stumbled over the PROSTATE anC
bleeding form of the insensible lady
stretched upon the floor at the head 0:
the stairs. All the inmates of the house
were in a moment gathered at the
scene OF the tragedy, and among then
; DR.. J. =. Pray, who has an Office in the
house, but he saw at a glance that she
; was beyond surgical aid. The bulle
had evidently entered the brain, an6
the unconscious, but still breathing
girl was carried into the room of he
sister, where, in an hour afterward sh.
expired, without having returned tt
consciousness
Coroner Herman, assisted by DIR
John Beach, yesterday afternoon hell
an inquest IN the case, and the fact
which have been narrated having beer
elected, verdict of death by suicide
was rendered, and the remains the1
delivered to the friends, by whom they
were last evening taken to Massachu
sets for burial. Deceased, who wa
possessed of the most unblemishet
character, was intending in shor
time to return to Detroit, which wa
her native place, and where she hat
spent some time in the Convent of tn,
Sacred Heart about year ago. He
father died some few months ago, leav-
ing all of his family in easy circum
stances.