The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-10-18
LAST EDITION.
BOTH DEAD IN
A BATH-AOUSE.
Titus Evidently ChlorofOrmed
Miss Duff and Then
Shot Himself
AWFUL TRAGEDY IN SEA CLIFF.
The Young Couple Were Engaged
to Be Married and Were
Apparently Happy.
MISSING SINCE TUESDAY NIGHT.
Belief that the Double Murder Was
Committed in a Fit
of Insanity.
MISSING SINCE TUESDAY NIGHT.


and Miss Mary Duff were found in an
old bathhouse at Sea Cliff L. l., last
ulght-the man shot to death and the
girl suffocated with chloroform.
1t was apparently either a case of
suicide, committed presumably by the
man.
Titus and Miss Duff, who were engaged
TO be married, went out for stroll Tues
day night, and had not been seen or
heard of until their bodies were found.
A "cward Of $3.50 had been offered for
Information as to their whereabouts,
and here were rumors that they had
met with foul play.
Miss Duff was the nineteen-year-o
daughter of Peter Duff, well-to-do fur
niture dealer at 253 Columbia street,
Brooklyn He lives at 800 Clinton street,
the same city
MIR. Titus was young business man
living at No. 44C Clinton street. He was
n visitor at MIR. Duf's country home, a
pretty cottage near the shore at the head
of Prospect avenue, at Sea Cliff. The peo-
pie with whom they associated accepted
them as engaged, and looked upon them
as a well-mated pair with excellent ma
terial prospects.
Well known Socially.
Both were socially active. Miss Duff
was a tall, slender girl, blonde and
blue-eyed, full Of natural vitality. and
with all the accomplishments of a we'll
bred young woman of her years.
TITUS, who was only twenty-five years
old, was of a gay and sociable tenn
permanent and popular member of the
Sea Cliff Yacht Club.
The young people had known each
other four years.
Titus returned from an afternoon
fishing trip Tuesday evening, and after
dinner he went out for "A ramble with
Miss Duff along the beach.
AS they did not return, her family
aroused some -.eighbors late that night
and began a search, which with steadily
increasing numbers of volunteers was
continued all Of yesterday.
They had not been seen near the sta
ton, and 1t was felt certain by all that
they had not eloped as there was ne
necessity for such proceeding.
In beating the bush and scanning the
surf, the searching parties had passed
over - wide range of the neighboring
country and shore, when at about
o'clock Constable Brengel half idly forced
open the door of the bath-house at the
foot of the lawn in front of Mr.. Duf's
property and only a few yards from the
house.
This spo, had been overlooked in al
the widespread energies of the hunt.
Finding the Bodies.
The constable could distinguish
ha objects
ing upon the floor of the bath-house
Striking a match, the light fell upor
the bodies of the long-sought couple
They had bean dead many hours.
Miss Duff's body lay at length upoI
the floor, with her feet towards thu
door, her head slightly raised agains
the wall beneath the dressing bench.
Over her face was towel that still
smelled of chloroform
Titus was on his knees beside her
having fallen in a crouching position
after shooting himself. There was I
bullet-wound in his right temple, anC
the blood flowing down over mis- fact
had stained the dress of the girl ant
formed in pools about the moor. ihes'
pools had nearly dried up, and formed
A 3S-calibre Smith & Wesson revolver
lying beside his body, told the story o
I how he met his death.
The news flew through the village lik
the wind. and soon a large crowd gath
cred.
Dr. w. ]. Burns, who had been on
of the searchers, arrived shortly ant
sent for Coroner Duryea,.
The Coroner impanelled a jury com
prising o. W. Parker, Il. w. Sheridan
Samuel Stencin, ID. w. Pardee, Franz
]. Colds, John Graham, Charles Sniffen
James Tichborne and Rev. II. Welsh.
They viewed the bodies and adjourne
the inquest until Tuesday next.
No Letters Found.
No letter nor any written indicatio
of a cause for the tragedy could
found. Titus had in his pockets a watch
some money, keys and memorandum
book that contained nothing relative
Miss Duff's clothing was equally barre
of evidence.
DIR. Burns, who contemplates the cas-
with the same wonder that fills all tn
people of the village and vicinity, toll
J, an Evening World" reporter this morn
ing that he believed Titus had done tn
deed in a fit of insanity.
THAT man was crazy as true as 20
were born,' said the doctor 9TH
attack may have been growing upo
him unperceived and unsupported b
his friends, His mania took . HON
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