The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-03-28
THE THILL TRAGEDY
Evidence That Actor Bige-
low Was Insane When
He Killed the Girl.
HELPED BY HIS RELATIVES
Who the Girl Was-The News
Told to Her Sisters
Their Career.
HELPED BY HIS RELATIVES

NEW YORK, March rs, 1S95.-Investi-
cation this morning set at rest all theo-
ries as to the cause of the double trag-
edy yesterday morning, when John Bige-
low, an actor. shot and killed Amy Thrill,
an actress, in the Falk House, at No.
Is West Twenty-fourth street, and then
turned the pistol upon himself and sent
a bullet through his right temple. Big
Glow, 1t was learned through one of his
most intimate friends, John Holden of
No. Il Broadway, has been in insane re-
treats at least five times within the last
ten years, anG there can be no that
the murder and suicide yesterday were
caused by a sudden access of his In
sanity, brought ON by the night of drink
ing and debauch that preceded It.
The last time Bigelow was IN q lunatic
asylum was in the fall of 1899, when he
spent some time in a retreat at Hart
ford. He has also been several times
in Bloomingdale. His insanity, in the
belief of his friend, John Holden, is the
result of a severe attack of Roman fever
which he contracted when a two-year-old
baby in Rome.
CRAzED BY FEVER. Il
This fever is often followed by a weak
ening of the brain, which brings on Pc
rio3ical attacks of insanity. In John
B.gelow's case these attacks were usual
Is fastened by the free use OF tobacco
ard stimulants.
I'll his life and especially since he en-
tered the theatrical profession, he has
been helped along by his father, Albert
81. R-gelow of M3rristown. y. J.
The father. who is a lawyer at No. IL
Pine street. was not to be found this
morning. He has desk room in the office
of Alien & Aiher at that address. and
only comes to town two or three times
a week.
On Tuesday last Bigelow was In his
rorllal condition. He lei down to see
over, ana b-gtloW called again three
l4ass. on eaen oecas-on failing to find
srlncis Sullivan, who IS in the same
o:f,ce. leat him 81 20 get ais su 1ch. When
ssd mprdsrsl he had only IS cshts in
This morning both bodies sre lying
In pines boxes in 5 -. ; undertaking
store at Thirty-seto nd stree and Broad
Coroner Fitzpatrick vas IS see the re-
me-. rs at eleven o~'elocA. Tnefe We're no
THE TRILL SISTERS.
jacob Z.tt's stock con 5any ii. last July
She met Bigeiow N st. Paul and zdinne-
apolis.
Al three sisters played win Joss5h
Theatre in this city last fail
just before her TWO slsters went away,
two weeks ago, on the road with Charles
Dickson. company, all three sis. ers posed
as the three graces for the Celebrities
Magazine.
A trunk that is lying in the : girls
room with the initials Z. y. y. on 1t
helongs not to Bigelow, as was supposed,
but to the actress Leonora Bradley, who
i..eu 10 live there aha Is now starring.
through the country.
The feeling thas existed between Bige-
low and Amy Thill is supposed to have
been nothing more h an ordinary
frien6liness between man and woman in
the same profession.
Lawyer Holden. with whom the actor
was very intimate, said that while he
knew they were friends, he had never
heard Bige1ow say nothing that led him
to suppose it was a case of love.