The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-03-06
ESCAPED FROM THE ASYLUM.
PELHAM sHIPMAS COMMITS SUICIDE
IN BALTIMORE.
Last Thursday lie Was Missed fros n,oo~,.
inedaie--On Friday He Turned On the
Gas In liis bedroom In Raiiiaore-- Yes.
tetd0y ne shot HimseIr In = Cab.


BALTIMORE. March 5.-Pclham W. Shipmnn.
son Of W. ID. shipman OF the law firm OF Ship.
man. Larocauo & Choate OF New York. COM
mited suicide this afternoon Mt 5 o'clock while
in n cab by shooting hims self In tho head. Hear.
rived at tho Carrolton Hotel at o'clock yestcr.
day morning and asked for q room. He regis
tered as T. W. Pelham. He was sent to n room
on the top floor In loss than two hours ono OF
the cham bcrmaids detected tho smell OF gas.
1t wss some time before the leak was discov-
cred to be in Shipman's room. The door w ~
broken open and the young man was found
lying on the bed. conscious. but complaining
Of being sick. The burner was turned on full
head. It wns believed Mt tho time that Ship
man had accidentally turned on tho gas.
Last night no changed his quarters and
registered at the Eutaw House. Apparently
he had recovered from tho effect OF the gas
This afternoon he hailed cahman and ordered
him to drive 10 tho Carrolton. Upon arriving
al tho hotel the driver opened the door and
found his passenger sitting upright with
32-cnlibre pistol in his hand and tho blood
streaming from wound in tho head. Ser.
geant Of Police Rowe. who was standing near.
summoned an ambulance and had Shipmnn
conveyed to tho City Hospital. The bullet en-
tered tho head over the right temple aud went
clean through. lodging under tho skin on tho
left side. from which place 1t WAS cut out.
Shipinan was unconscious when discovered.
and therefore could give no account OF
himself. Tho cabman says lie did not hear
the shot. This was due probably to the
noise in tho street at this hour In Ship
mans pockets were found three letters.
two FOR his tnther. both dated Sent 10. 1891,
by $. Haniord. written on Nov. IL. and a.
rnct"d t? Shlpman care OF Dr. Lyon. L'oulr.
none giving any indication Of troubles. The
hotel pcoplc said he had not boon drinking.
fd d asS II SSEo no for tho act
e,Pelham shipman is the Younger son Of Judge
mhG IS aen e H. Vas TOD
School. ifior t"that he studied chemistry at
He never rractised law OF. showed any par
s m for the ssdn "n had nf %sye I sss Of
DOUBTED until last a. summer. when he WAS sent
parturo from home his actions became 50
strange that i Iecamcc necessary to bring
lad visions. and no was subject TO peculiar
Authorizations. He had severe attacks OF acute
IN elancholia during which he would searcey;
and in sepiSnLer, last It was thought best f to
eontsnted. Hs ;onauetsd himself veil and
gained the CONFIDENCE Of those who had charge
walk in the grounds q the institution without
q companion, Last Thursday on one of these
walks through the grounds Shipmnr made his
No trace whatever could he found of him.
nechborhooi faea to give any p clue to tho tho
direction he had taken.
Judge shipmap was immediately, notified.
ono Of two places--to his uncle's house in Now
Jersey. or to their own country place in Con-
had sesn TO
Since Thursday Judge shinman had had no
plight; when telegram from MARSHAL Jacob
iby q to satn
81 %jI!sn A " !shipman. an older son Q,
to n' s s Last
would leave for that city on the first train this
" Mr. Hsnford. referred to in the despatch. is
the superintendent at Bloomingdnle.
lum TT TIT shpman got "a away "st
noon. He was under parole to go about tho
grounds alone. aud he was first missed when
all the patients had come in tn dinner. He prob
d. ss sa Ht that his WAS M" Sa
the disease had grown upon him very rapidly
during the last year or two.
His trouble was very much like that OF
DouGherty and Roth. and at times there wasn't
the slightest trace Of insanity. But he was
exceedingly morose. jealous. and Suspicious.
and he broke out without provocation some
times into violent fits OF passion. which
seemed TO be beyond his control.
At such times he was very dangerous when
1t large. ns no carried a revolver. He had
threatened to use it. He imagined that de-
,tectives., dressed as women. were pursuing
thought he WAS alone: They think they will
take me unawares but they are mistaken"