San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-04-05
SENSATIONAL SUICIDE.
Life in Flat-The Wages of Sin is Death
Lulu Mays Suicide.

Lulu Macy, Ruby c. West, Hattie
Brlmm, Fannie Harvey and Nathan r.
Resseter, young people, lived In an
apartment Of five rooms on the top floor
of 22l West Fortieth street, one Of the
Opera Flats. On Saturday afternoon
Hattie Brimm and Fannie Harvey went
down to Roster & Balls. AS they went
out Lulu Macy stopped them.
"If anything happens to me-" she said
to Hattie Brimm-"GOd knows whether
anything will or not-you and Ruby
stay together.
came thing before, and Hattie Brimm
pr0mised. iaughingiy, to do as her friend
wished. Lulu Macy killed herself with
in the next hour. She was Massachu-
setts girl and came from Westtield. She
married a man named Howard Gray,
superintendent of a rolling mill in West
field, but they were divorced about three
wears ago, her friends say, on her appli-
cation. After the divorce she assumed
the name Of Macy and lived for time
In West Twenty-seventh street in this
city. Last June she went to Troy.
There at the Revere House she made
the acquaintance of Rosseter, young
Syraousan, at the time part owner or
the Troy News, which suspended publ
cation last September. On the "a OF
this month they moved into the apart
ment In the Opera Flats. Miss Macy,
soon after coming to The place, invited
her cousin, Miss Ruby Z. West, to come
and stay with her. Miss West was
Texas girl, but was working In down.
ton and lived in the fiat. She often
tried to persuade her cousin and Rose
ter to marry.
About a week ago two more friends
came to the apartment. They were
Fannie Harvey, OF Hartford, and Hattie
Brimm. of HolyOke. Mass. In Hattie
Brimm's baggage was large revolver,
given her by friend. She showed 1t to
her friends, and Mr.. Rosseter cautioned
the women about it.
Miss Macy at one time attempted to
shoot herself with the pistol, bat Ros-
setter wrested it from her and hid it on
the day in question, Saturday, March 70.
The New York Sun gives the following
account:
II lay on the front of the bed" said
Rosseter on Saturday afternoon. Ruby
West was in the front room writing, and
the others were in the back room. L
was about asleep. Presently Miss Macy
climbed over me and sat on the inside OF
the bed. She bent over and kissed me,
aid Miss Brimm laughed and said:
"Well, you are in love with him."
Miss Brimm and Miss Harvey put on
their hats in the front room and went
out. fell asleep, and was awakened by
the click of the revolver again.
miss Macy was sitting with her back
to the wall. | saw the revolver in her
hands. l raised my hands to take II
from her. but she pulled the trigger, and
fell toward me. the blood gushing from
her mouth and ears.
~ sprang up at once and cried out:
my God, Ruby, she's killed herself!
Then ran for the nearest DOCTOR"
Rosseter said he thought the shooting
accidental, and said that there had been
no quarrel between himself and Miss
Macy, except the little struggle over the
pistol earlier in the day. Hattie Brimm
and Miss West said that the dead woman
had been hard pressed for money recent
ly. They, too, thought she had killed
herself accidentally.
Deputy Coroner O'Meagher decided
that 1t was a case of intentional suicide.
The fingers of the girls plump right
hand were blackened by powder, and
the discoloraEion of the right temple
showed that the pistol had been held
close to it when the shot was fired. He
issued burial permit at once and
Undertaken Ewance Copeland took
charge of the body.
Miss Macy was about % years old, Of
a short figure, with clear brown COM
plexion, and rather handsome. She had
masses of thick black hair. Rosseter
looks younger than she. He says that
he is waiting for place in the office Of
Secretary of State at Albany.
The fiat was hired by Lulu Macy. Miss
West is well known in San Antonio,
having lived here last fall. In the death
Of her cousin she will have the sympathy
of all her friends here.