The evening times., 1898-12-26
Turns the Pistol OH Himself
and Will Probably Die.
A TRAGEDY In NEW YORK
Frank Nulty Shoots Mamie Remly
Down at Her Home.
Had Threatened Several Times to
Kill Her-She Was Seventeen
and He Nineteen Years Old.

New York, Dec. 26.-In the hallway of
her home, at No 2371 Eighth Avenue.
Mamie Remly, seventeen years old, was
shot in the heart and killed yesterday
afternoon by Frank Nuty, nineteen years
old. Nulty a moment later shot himself
through the head. He was taken to the
]. Hood Wright Hospital, and it is be-
lieved he will die. The young man is a
clerk in the branch of the postoffice at
University Heights. and lives with his
father and mother in One Hundred and
Seventy-fifth Street, just west of Am
sterdam Avenue.
Four months ago Nulty and the young
woman met at party. They correspond
ed afterward, the boy frequently called
at the girls house, and a month after
the meeting they were engaged. Nulty
presented Miss Remly a diamond ring
and his picture.
Matters went along smoothly until a
month ago, when the young man called
at the house one evening, and the two
olarreled. He was very angry, and end
ed by throwing the diamond ring and
the picture into the fire and leaving the
house.
Miss Remly told her mother Of the
quarrel, saying that she would never
marry a man with such Il violent tenn
per. The engagement was broken off
| Still from time to time Nulty called
! Once he said to the girl: "You will mar
| ry me or TO one; some day Ill blow
| the top of your head off," Two weeks
ago he wrote her: You had better go &c
/, confession for the next time you leave
| church / am going 10 Kill you!' The
| young woman did not seem to mind the
threats, for she continued to go tc
| church.
Saturday evening Miss Remly received
a box OF candy sent BY Nulty. There
was note with it, which seemed t'
| trouble the young woman. She appeared
| nervous, and continued so yesterday. /
! evidently suggested Il meeting, for th'
! girl gathered up all the letters she hat
received from Nuity and tied them int
a package with bit of pink ribbon
| About o'clock in the afternoon. whel
| the bell of the fat sounded, the girl salt
to her mother, There he is now. TheI
she went down to the front door.
Within five minutes the mother hear,
her daughter scream. A second later
shot was fired. The mother ran down
the stairs, but before she was half wa!
down, she heard the sound of two mon
shots In the hallway, near the door. Ia.
two forms One was her daughter. Th
other was Nulty. The man had fallen OF
the body of Miss Remly. He still claspe'
n revolver in his hand. The girl clutche'
convulsively at the package OF letter.
tied with the pink ribbon.
Frantic and crying Historically Mrs
Remly dragged the man aside. The bloc
flowed from wound in his right tempt
| over the face of her daughter Pickin!
up the young woman. Mrs. Remiy carrie,
her up the hall.
Mamie she sobbed. Mamie, speak t.
met She stopped at the foot of tn
stairway TO kiss the white face. Tn
girls life went out as tile mothers ks
touched her lips.
BY this time the house was in an up
roar. Eager hands took the dead gir
from her mothers arms and placed he
| in Il nearby room. The dead hand still
! clurched the packet of letters. On tn
breast of the young woman's dress, neT
dress that she wore for the first time
a deep patch of red grew larger and large
each moment as the blood which flowe'
from the wound in the left breast wa
absorbed The mother tainted as a police
man who had been hurriedly summone
entered the house.
Soon DR.. Goeltz arrived in an ambulanc
from the hospital. The girl was dead
He wondered that she had not died whel
the bullet struck her, for he thought
must have passed through her heart. Tn
man was unconscious. The bullet had en-
tered his brain and there was littl
chance of his living through the night
He was taken TO the hospital.
Napoleon Remly. father of the dead grl
is q gripman of the Third Avenue cabl
line. He was prostrated by the shock o
his daughters death.
In the neighborhood of the home o
NuIty he has generally been looked upo1
as high roller" His father is superin
tendent of the Washington He ghts branc
| postoffice.