Evening journal., 1900-02-10
DEATH ENDED SUFFERING,
MARY E. ROBINSON SHOT HER.
SELF YESTERDAY.

FOUND LYING IN HER BEDROOM
WITH BULLET HOLE IN HER
HEART-sUFFERED FROM INDI-
GEsTIoN.
Lying outstretched upon the floor Of
heI. bed chamber, cold in death. bull
let hole in her breast and a revolver by
her side Miss Mary e. Robinson, OF
No. lO6 West Tenth street, was found
yesterday afternoon by her brother,
Leslie
The woman's rash act was committed
about | O'Clock. but her body was not
discovered until shortly after o'clock,
when her brother had occasion to go
upstairs. and discovered his sister upon
the floor of her room Pinned to the
bed clothing was note written in a
firm hand a few moments before Miss
Robinson fired the fatal shot that ended
her life The note read as follows:
Il am sick and despondent, tired Of
being in misery. Goodbye Pop, Frank,
Less, Nei. God bless you all You've
all been, good and kind to me.
NAME"
For some months past the dead
woman has been a great sufferer from
indigestion and at times has been very
ldespOndent. and several times express
led the wish that she was dead. Yes
terday morning she inquired OF Ed
ward the easiest way in which to die,
but the latter regarded the query in the
light of a joke.
Shortly afterwards Miss Robinson
went into the kitchen and making up
several loaves of bread, placed them in
the oven to bake. She then proceeded
to her room, on the second floor, and
that was the last seen CT her alive.
i About I o'clock Leslie Robinson, while
standing in the barrOOm beneath heard
la noise as II made by something fall
ing upstairs, but thought nothing OF
it. An hour later he found his sister S
dead body.
That the suicide was a deliberate
one is undoubted. Several days ago
Miss Robinson was seen at the safe in
the barroom, but nothing was thought
CT the instance at the time, but yes
terday il developed that the woman had
taken 3S-calibre revolver from the
safe, where it had remained untouch-
ed and unloaded for five years. Garry
2 ing the weapon to her room the young
woman then procured two cartridges
from a box in her brothers room and
placed them in the pistol
On reaching her chamber yesterday
= Miss Robinson removed a portion oi
her clothing and placed 1t upon chair
She then lifted her undervest and
D pinned it to the shoulder. Taking ths
D weapon in her right hand she stood in
e front of the mirror on the dressini
u case, placed the muzzle directly ovei
her heart and fired. Death was in
stantaneous, as she fell backward upoI
the floor. DR.. l. NJ. Finn was sum
mOned and pronounced life extinct
e When found a black spot about tn,
Il size Of a silver dollar was discovere,
It upon the breast which had been causel
h by powder. In the centre OF this spo
S was a bullet hole, from which oozed
y tiny stream of blood. Her heart hai
d been pierced by the deadly missile.
d AS soon as the discovery was mad
Y Policeman Mcbride was called in an
> he notified the police station. Captain
h Black. Sergeant Welsh and Office
J. Riley were soon upon the scene an
D, took charge of the remains Corone
J. Vandever and Deputy Coroner Gile
larrived a few moments later and view
ed the body. which had remained un
touched. In falling the woman ha
Ia evidently struck her hand against tn
le bed, as the revolver had fallen froI
!, her hand.
"a An inquest was held last night b
il Coroner Vandever and the jury rer
fo dered a verdict that the deceased We
II man came to her death from a gu
shot wound, self-inficted. while suffel
AZ ing with mental alteration, superb
al duced by nervous dyspepsia.
il Miss Robinson was 80 years of al
and an only daughter. She kept hou'
for her father, who conducts a saloo
at No. 1O6 West Tenth street, her ms
n ther having been dead about eleve
=, years.
a. She was engaged TO be married
n Frank MatthewsOn, an electrician
sIl the DUPONT powder works, on Wedne
he day next. The ceremony was to ha'
as taken place at her home. and she n;
in been making arrangements for it. La
evening when Mr.. Matthewson arriv
at the Robinson home and learned q
sad news, he was almost overcome
. grief
he The family are entirely prosuat
a, at the sad affair.