The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-11-01
MISS GARLAN0'S SUICIDE.
DAUGHTER OF THE EX-ATTORNEH
GENERAL SHOOTS HERSELF.
A Great shock 10 Her Family and
FRIENDSHIP Had Been Acting
Strangely and Ii Is Believed That
She Was Disappointed in Love.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.-AIiss Daisy
Garland daughter Of ex-United States
Attorney-General Garland, committed
suicide at her home in this city by
shooting herself this morning. She was
thirty-four years old and thought to have
been insane at the time.
Miss Garland had spent a very pleas
ant evening with her father and BROTH
ers last night at their home, 915 Rhode
Island-ave., and retired in good spirits.
After breakfast this morning she retired
to her room, where her brother Will went
shortly after to talk with her concern
ing a theater party. He found the door
locked. and not receiving any response TO
his calls, burst into the room and found
his sister lying on the floor dead. The
bullet had passed through her heart. He
smelt the gas and thought at first that
she had been asphyxiated, but upon ex-
animation found a bullet-hole in her
left side and on the floor near her lay
an old revolver which had been in the
family for thirty years. About two
months ago Miss Garland suddenly left
home and was found in Baltimore, but
since that time nothing peculiar has been
noticed.
The cause Of the suicide is not def
nitely known, but is attributed mainly
to a religious mania Of which she is
said to have been possessed.
From the position in which Miss Car
lands body lay il is evident that she
had stood in front Of a large mirror
and taken deliberate aim at her heart
I She had taken the precaution Of turning
on all the gas jets in the room so that
I'm case the bullet failed in its work the
gas would smother her in her sleep Of
death. The ex-attorney-general had left
the house for his Office and it was an
hour or more before his daughters aw-
full death was known to him. He was 50
! completely overcome that he could scarce
/ " stand when the news was broken 20
/ him. He was aided to a chair until
! carriage could be called to take him
home.
The entire family was so overwhelmed
with the shock that none Of them
could be seen. A number of intimate
friends were summoned and at once
| took charge Of the household affairs.
! The true cause of Miss Garland's self
| inflicted death may never be known
| She had a secret Of some kind that
preyed constantly on her mind, but it
! is said none of her friends knew exactly
/ what it was. An intimate friend said
] this was the case. Many surmises as
| to the real causes would be made, he
| said, but as she had persistently re-
| fused to communicate it to anyone it
was probably the secret had died with
her. 1t was thought, he said, by some
/ of her associates that she had had a
| love affair which had turned out badly.
| She had been crossed in love. If this
were true the family or friends pro-
/ fessed not TO know who the man in the
| case is. None in the house heard the
pistol shot, nor did anyone hear her
! fall to the floor. Her family relations
and surroundings were Of the most
! pleasant. She was a great favorite with
! her father, who supplied her with every
comfort and studied to make her happy.