The daily gazette., 1881-08-23
SHOCKING SUICIDE.
A Bride Of q Year Sends q Bullet
Through Her Brain.

A Bride OF q Year Sends q Bullet
Through Her Brain.
Mrs. Daisy Oaks Dudley, wife of Mr..
Francis II. Dudley and daughter OF ex-
Judge W. j. A. Fuller Of the law firm of
Fuller q Albeit, Broadway and Bar
clay street, New York, committed sui
eide on Saturday evening at her house
on the summit Of Orange Mountain, N.
j. She shot herself about five o'clock
through the brain, and died about half
past twelve o'clock the same night.
From the time Of the shooting until her
death Mrs. Dudley was unconscious.
The circumstances attending the
shocking affair are Of q very distressing
character, the immediate cause Of the
dreadful act being young married
couples quarrel over . most trifilng mat
ter-a question whether husband and
wife should drive In basket phaeton or
covered buggy.
THE FATAL SHOT.
On Saturday afternoon the Dudleys
expected visitor to stay with them
over Sunday, Mr.. Bayard G. Fuller,
Mrs. Dudley's brother. They were to
start at five O'Clock to meet him at the
Orange Depot, of the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western railroad
Mr.. Dudley went out to see that the
conveyance was made ready. His
wife went to her dressing room to ar
range her bonnet, &c. Every thing
was all prepared when Mrs. Dudley
discovered that her husband had had
hitched a covered buggy instead of the
basket phaeton, the vehicle Of hel
choice.
"Frank," she said, qaite provoked
"you know don't want that buggy
want the phaeton."
sit won't do, Daisy, it's going Il
rain ; don't you see how cloudy it,
getting ?" he replied.
81 don't care. want the phaeton
and won't 90 step without it,"
This was followed by an iptercbapp
of angry words. The husband passe,
down stairs but In an instant was sum
moned up again by the sharp crack of
pistol. a few bounds up the stairs an,
he was In his wife's dressing room. Sh
had taken large revolver which ha
been In the house since judge Fuller
honse had been robbed by burglars som
time ago. and placed II at her right teu
pie and fred. The bullet weighed Ia
grains, or quarter of an ounce-passe
obliquely upward through her brain an
came out above the LETT temple, struc
the wall and fell on the floor, Mrs. .Dut
ley fell with her head in the close
whence she had but few minutes befor
obtained her hat which was on her. DR.
Plerson ana Richards were prompt
summoned from Orange, but they akree
that the case Was hopeless. Everythin
possible was done, but Mrs. Dudley ne,
er uttered word or gave sign OF col
sciousnoss. Just after midnight deaf
ensued.
Yesterday DIR. Hewlett, the Esse
County physician, whose special duty
to investigate all such cases, visited th
Dudley cottage, and, being satisfied tbs
death was the result OF suicide, deeme
an Inquest unnecessary and granted
burial permit.
Mrs. Dudley's father, mother IN
several siste 70 are now in Europe. Al
other sister Is In the Adirondacks. IL,
brother, Bayard, and her cousins vel
at the house yesterday. Mr.. Dudley
relatives are all at Ellenville, on Il
Central New jersey Railroad. Deceass
leaves no child. Lately she had consi
cradle sickness, and this made her irri
able. The dudley residence Is almo
within arrowshot OF the scene of q
Moierhoffer tragedy, which ended In q
execution at the Newark Jail of MI
Meierhofter and Frank LAmnens.