Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-11-03
SUICIDE AMID LUXURY
Miss Mae Jeanette Galley Well
Known in BrattIeboro
Shot Herself In Hotel Aberdeen In New
York-Jewels Valued at $1,000 In Travel
ina Bau,

Nork-Jewels Valued at $1,000 In Travel
ING Bag.
Surrounded by every evidence of wealth.
young woman who a week previous had
registered as Miss Mae Jeanette Caley
committed suicide Oct "a in her apart
ments in the Hotel Aberdeen, II West
32d street, New York city. The body was
found lying on a rug in the bath room
fully dressed. In the right temple was
bullet wound and beside her the re-
volver with which the fatal shot was
fired
Miss Galley had many acquaintance in
Brattleboro. She came here as the guest
of Mr. and Mrs. Jack" Rafter about
three years ago, and remained some time
with them and with friends whose ac-
quaintance she made soon after her
arrival here.
The young woman left a note directed
to her sister Miss Lillian. Landers of
Tarrytown, N Y, which Said: Tired
Tired. Forgive me, dear sister. Love-"
A bundle of letters was addressed to Mrs
A. G. Allen, who occupied an adjoining
apartment in the hotel. Mrs. Allen heard
the fatal shot fired and alarmed the hotel
employees who entered the room. Dr.
Townshend, the physician who arrived
while the room was still clouded with
smoke. said death had been instantaneous
Detectives took charge of the woman's
travelling bag, which contained $135 in
cash and Jewels to the value of $4,000
Miss Galley was dressed in an embroider-
ed white silk waist and a silk walking
skirt. Her trunk was packed, her rooms
were in perfect order and she had paid
her bill at the hotel, stating that it was
her intention to go away. There had been
nothing in her appearance while she was
at the hotel to indicate that she was
troubled
Tho Nouy vorlr IIaro1d sa1s tbat the
cause of Miss Caleys suicide was probably
a love affair, as she is known to have had
an affection for John McAleenan, a
pawnbroker of New York The body of
Miss Galley was shipped to her mother,
Mrs George A. Clark of Akron, Ohio, who
was a Mrs. Landers before her last mar
riage. Lillian Landers, the sister who is
in a boarding school in Tarrytown, N Y,
came to New York to claim the body.
Miss Galley was married in Buffalo, n.
Y, in 1901 to Ralph Pitzer of Youngstown,
Ohio. He says the ceremony was the re-
suit of banter and that he never lived
with the young woman. A despatch says
that in the party at the time of the
marriage was 1.-The wife of a prominent
resident of Boston who is in the rubber
business" This may refer to Mrs. Rafter
Mr.. and Mrs. Rafter lived in Buffalo
about that time, and went from there to
Boston, where Mr.. Rafter was agent for
a rubber hose company.
OF more than ordinary good looks, Miss
Galley was blonde, good figure and five
feet six inches in height. Her artistic
taste was shown in the objects of art
and bric-a-brac that were about the
rooms which she occupied which included
several costly small bronzes, small
ormulu clock, and trinkets in silver. Her
clothing was of expensive variety.
Miss Galley in the last few years has
Mo- tO Eran
She had large sums of money all the time
and always wore large number of val
liable diamonds. In Akron Mrs. Clark
said of her daughter: She expected to
marry Jack as soon as she could get
divorce from Frank Pitzer. She thought
a great deal of Jack and was trying to
get a separation in the courts. 1 can't
believe Mae committed suicide. She often
said she would never commit suicide, and
she had a horror of a revolver"