The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-03-23
BEAUTY 0F boston
Young Widow Kills Herself
for Her Lovers Sake.
KILLED HER BROTHER TOO
End of a Beauty Who Was a
farmers Daughter.
HER BROTHER TOO

Boston, March 22.-Remorse, compli-
Gated with a love AGAR, led Mrs. Nora P.
Philips. one of the most beautiful women
in Boston, to shoot herself in the right
/ temple today in a lodging house
Mrs Phillips, who is % years old, is dy-
/ ing at the City hospital, and the police
are looking for George Gay Griffith. a
Virginia, a graduate Of Harvard, and now
a student at the Boston University Law
school, to see if he can throw any light
on the causes which led the beautiful
young wild NV 10 attempt her own life
The police have no doubt that Mrs
Philips shot herself because they found
on bureau in her room hastily Serb
bled note which salu, "Good-by; send
word to NJ 0undsville, w. Va" and it
was in the handwriting of Mrs Phil
lips.
3foundsviue is the home Of Griffith.
At the City hospital the surgeons said
the bullet lod ged in the womans brain
and that she ouldnft live
1t is said she brOOded over her act in
killing her bro Their, and that she was
deeply in love with Student Griffith, who
grew somewhat negiectful of her after
while. Two weeks ago Mrs. Phillips tried
to kill herself in her room by taking ar
senic ard Griffith tolephoned for DR.. D.
f. Chase. The doctor said that Mrs
Phillips had q close call that time.
Griffith and Mrs Phillips occupied ad-
Joining rooms and they We're regarded in
their boarding house as being intimate
friends.
The police went up to the Boston uni
versity to see Griffith, but ne wasn't there
and the dean said he had been away two
days. but he didn know where.
When Mrs Phillips engaged the room
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told the owner of it that she had been a
widow four years and that her husband
left her sufficient money to live on with
out working.
10 man other than Griffith is known to
have called on her and he was with her
a great deal.
Mrs. Phillips was really a widow and
the name she gave the keeper Of the lodg-
ing house was her own. Mrs. Phillips
maiden name was Nora ETcNarnara, and
she was the daughter Of a small farmer
who lives in the suburbs of Worcester
Her beauty even when she was a young
girl. was pronounced, and when she was
eighteen it was great enough to lead
Gilbert ~. Phillips, the son of Judge
Phillips Of Putnam, Conn, to marry her
Four years ago young Mr.. Phillips died
leaving the young widow more beautiful
than ever He left her an estate SUI
ficient to give her an income which guar
anteed her against having % work for a
living.
Last sumner Mrs Phillips spent at the
little farm which her father had occupied,
and On winch her younger sister, Carrie
and her older brother, David Mcnamara,
lived David had il bad reputation among
the police of Worcester, who knwe him
well and quarrels between the brother
and the two sisters were frequent. Da-
vid demanding money for drinks from his
widowed sister. and abusing her when
she refused to give him any.
The first day of last august Mrs. Phil
Inns and her sister started to leave the
farm for a shopping trip in Worcester,
when they were ordered by David to stay
ut home They refused, and then the
brother threatened TO assault both sisters
with as tone and cluD he carried.
Mrs Phillips carried a revolver in her
shopping bag, and she drew it out and
shot David three times, killing him. Then
The young widow went into Worcester
and proceeded to the police Headquarters
where she calmly announced she had kill
"a her brother in self-defense.
The next day the county Judge after lis
tening to the beautiful prisoners story
Of how she shot her brother to protect
herself and her sister, told her she could
go. and that ended the matter SO Ear as
the law was concerned.
Mrs Phillips left Worcester shortly af-
ter she was discharged AID came to Bos-
ton.
When you are bilious. use those famous
little pills known as DeWitt's Little Early
Risers to cleanse the liver and bowels.
They never gripe.- Gus Saur. 524 z. Doug
las Ave, Geo. Van Werden, 32S n Main