The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-05-28
ELLEN GALATIANS SUICIDE.
4 WRoNGED WIFE JUMPS DOWN 4
BBTEN-STORY LIGHT SHAFT.

She Turned Rack aad Killed Herself After
Starting 10 Court 90 Appear Against
Edward TowAe, WHOM she and Hts
brother Had Charged with BiEamy.
A little moro than month ago q new tene-
ment house was opened for occupancy at l22
Forsyth street. The first family TO move into
1t consisted Of Mary Callahan. her sister. Ellen
Callahan. and three nephews and niece of
theirs, the orphan children OF another sister.
They hired front apartments on tho top floor.
All OF the family worked In shops or factories
excepting Mary Callahan and the youngest
child The latter went to school and Mary
Kept the house. Ellen who was u handsome
woman OF 80, worked in u silk mill In Greene
street.
To all OF their friends Ellen was known ma a
single woman. but in reality she was married
Working beside her in the mill was II silk spin
ner named Edward Towne. He made love to
her, and in March last he induced her to marry
him. Tho marriage was q secret one, per-
formed by the Rev. MIR, Morehouse. OF East
Seventeenth street Towne visited her and
often took her out in the evenings. but theY
never openly lived together.
Two or three days ago William NJ. Towne, q
brother OF Edward. brought tho news to Ellen
that tho man she had trusted wns a bigamist
and had n wife and two children living at 403
East Eighty-fourth street. William and Ed
ward Towne lived together in Eighty-fourth
street. and something. had aroused the
truth. lie had applied 10 Justice Tantor at
tho Essex Market Police Court Tor warrant
Monday Ellen and William Towne swore out a
mig ht Ho was arraig,ed yesterday morning
mnd the , case was adjourned by the Justice
present who performed the second marriage.
Ellen went home to her dinner, and at 2
6e shS hens 3F me .o ana s bs
from the window until she got beyond the
block that the house is. on. Then she returned
piercing scream startled the tenants in that
and the adjoining house. 1t seemed to come
Joining rooms, and who was sitting beside q
window that opened on a wide air shaft
thing tal rnst tho window. He could not look
into the court because OF q wire screen which
fns wns there bsore the roof
moaning; In her hands She held hat and a
house but a few minutes before. she found
them on tho roof beside tho three,foot coming
seven stories beneath the coming. lay some
thing. which she knew must be the body Of
Ellen had apparently deliberately taken of
her hat and Jacket. mounted the coping. and
I'M into spaeH me iH ss on "a
from the basement window to the pavement Of
the court. Every other window that opened
upon the shaft was closed with heavy wire metz
ting This one was left open. and 1t was the
only portal to tho court.
Ellcns tragic death did not interfere with the
proceedings In court. Townes first wife was
there. 1T was proven that he married her four
teen years ago. when she was Clara Miles, in
Philadelphia The Rev. DR.. Pancoast per-
formed the ceremony. Towne was committed
for trial.
Favorable Report the Bill Against OleOs
margarine.
WASHINGTON May 27.-The House Committee Com
merce day listened to argument by +. d. Curtis.
representing the New York State Dslrymen's AssocA-
ton. favor OF tho amendment of tho Interstate
Commerce laws permit States to exclude the
impor of oleomarRerine and at the conclusion Of
the argument decided report the Flower bill favor
ably with amendment corresponding In principle
with that introduced IN the senate by Senator Wilson
OF Iowa which provides that when o,eomarRarine,
transported from state to another shall have
minated Its TRANSPORTATION it shall be considered TO