The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-10
MISS GALLAWAY A SUICIDE.
DAUGHTER or BANK PRESIDENT
KILLS HERSELF IN HOTEL.
Had Been IN III Health and Had worried
over Condition OF Her Mother. VINO
Has Heart DIseaSe-shot Herself
when Nurse Went Into Another Room.

when Nurse Went Into Another Room.
Miss Mary Galloway, the daughter Of
Robert NJ. Galloway, the tanker aad
railroad man. killed herself yesterday
in the Hotel Seville, Madison avenue
and Twenty-ninth street. Miss Gallaway's
friends and relatives believe that she was
temporarily demented. She hSd been In
poor health for a long time and worried
great deal over the condition Of her mother,
who is seriously III with heart disease.
Miss Galloway shot herself in her room
in the Seville about o'clock yesterday
afternoon. She had been living at the hotel
for two weeks and with her was a trained
nurse, Miss Margaret Withers. MiAs
Gallaway's parents live at os East Fifty
fifth street.
She left her home on the advice Of
her physician, DR.. Ellsworth Elliot. OF -
West Thirty-siXth street, who has been
attending Miss Galloway for several months.
She suffered from neurasthenia and chronic
indigestion, and these two ailments gave
her nervous prostration.
On top Of these troubles Miss Gallaway's
mother became very i'll and the daughter
worried 80 much that the family and Dr.
Elliot decided that she must have a change
Of surroundings. At first II was intended
that she should go away to the country,
but Miss Galloway would not consent to
he very far away from her mother. Then
il was decided to have her take rooms in
the Seville.
Miss Galloway wasn't III enough to stay
in bed and most OF the time she has been at
the hotel she was up and around She
went driving frequently. After she went
TO the hotel DR.. Elliot called in DR., George
R. Lockwoodof IS East Fifty-seoond street.
Dr. Lockwood Ia a specialist in nervous
diseases and since that time he and Dr.
Elliot have been attending the young
woman.
DR.. Lockwood generally called to sec
her in the morning and DR.. Elliot late in
the afternoon. Dr.. Eliot called AZ the
hotel yesterday at O'Clock and had the
clerk telephone to Miss Galaway's rooms
on the tenth floor TO ask her il she would
zee him. Miss Withers, the nurse, answered
the call
Tell the doctor 10 wait q few minutes
and then come up" said Miss Galloway.
That will give me time TO change my
gown"
Miss Galloway sat up in the bed and
told the nurse to get her a gown from
closet in an adjoining room. While Miss
Withers was getting the gown she heard
a shot ran into the next room and saw
Miss Galloway lying on the edge Of the bed
with a revolver In her hand and blood
streaming from her mouth. The nurse
cried out and ran toward the door leading
into the main hall Of the hotel. As she
-. L. ltaFs FaII riT4rH
toward Il.
Come quick. DOCTOR cried the nurse.
Something dreadful has happened.
Dr. Elliot ran into the room after the
nurse He leaned over Miss Galloway and
found she was dead. She had fired bullet
from a pearl handled revolver into the roof
Of her mouth. The bullet had penetrated
the b ain, ca sing instant death.
The frst thing Dr.. Elliot did wa 10 notify
the family Then the Coroners' Office ives in
formed Of the shooting. Coroner Scholor
went to tho hotel and gave q permit for tho
removal Of the body at tie convenience
OF tho family
The Coroner got statements from the
nurse and the two physicians wi o were
attending Miss Galloway. After his invcsti-
CATION he said no did not doubt that Miss
Galloway had become temporarily insane
over her own and her mothers illness.
Tho only thing that worried the Coroner
was how Miss Gala way became possessed
OF the revolver. Her nurse didn't know
she had It nor did her physicians o. the
members Of her family. The police took
possession Of II.
Miss Galloway was IS years old and
member Of Dr.. Parkhurst's church. She
was the only dau ghter and has two brothers,
Merrill and John NJ. Galloway.
The body will be taken home TO day.
Funeral arrangements have not been made.