New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-02
SUICIDE AFTER DINING.
WOMAN WAS HYSTERICAL.
No One Sac or Heard Shot Fired
an Luxurious apartment.

Surrounded by every luxury and wearing jew
els that represented a small fortune. Mrs. Emma
Isabel Peabody, handsome woman of forty
shot and killed herself in her fine apartment,
on the second floor of No. a West 69th-st., last
night. No one se-r her do it. There was only
one other person il the apartment at the time,
Mrs Helen Parker, friend, who had just come
to live with Mrs. Peabody Mrs. Parker was
engaged IN a room at the other end of the
apartment.
She did not hear the shot fired. but noticed
peculiar odor, which she traced to the room
OF her friend. She found her stretched on the
floor dead, with a bullet wound in her right
temple.
The physicians who saw the body, of
whom knew Mrs. Peabody well, could give no
other motive for the suicide than that she had
been suffering from hysteria caused by over
indulgence at a late dinner the night before.
Coroner Shea ordered the police OF the West
6Sth-st. station to investigate.
Mrs. Peabody had occupied her apartment for
two years, and, according to her neighbors was
a g@,oan IF eaucation sn9 good 4breea'Rg she
3ppa rently was wealthy and lived luxuriousiy.
Before her marriage she Miss Emma Isabel
Levitt. of Brookline Mass. She is said to be
niece of Mrs George Willcomb, who lives at
the Hotel Vendome, in Boston. Mrs. Peabodys
friends have heard her speak repeatedly OF
wealthy relatives in Boston and in other New
England cities Once, when she was i'll two
years ago it is said. she wrote to a brother
Percy W. Levitt, who was then in Akron, Ohio
According to Mrs. Parker, she called on Mrs
Peabody yesterday and arranged to make her
home in the apartment. Mrs. Parker told the
police that Mrs Peabody had told her that on
Sunday night she had dined late with party
which made her too i'll to leave her bed yester-
day She was lying down when Mrs. Parker
reached the house yesterday.
Mrs Parker said that she sent for some soup
for Mrs. Peabody. She then retired 10 another
room thinking Mrs Peabody would go to sleep
Mrs Parker declares that not sound reached
her from Mrs. Pea body's room with the excep-
ton OF meanings from the woman, and this
Mrs Parker attributed to her hysterical con-
dition Fifteen minutes later Mrs Parker de-
tected a peculiar odor in the apartment, but she
says she thought that Mrs. Peabody had been
taking some strong medicine for her nerves
The odor became stronger, and a complete still
ness in Mrs Peabody's room caused her to go
there to see the sick
Entering the room, she says, she almost fell
over the body of Mrs. Peabody. Seeing blood
stains on the woman's wrapper she telephoned
for a messenger boy and hurried him for the
nearest physician. The first to respond was
Dr. Ormand Golden. of No. % West 75th-st.
said that she was dead.
Coroner Shrady viewed the body of Mrs Pea
body at her home and gave out a statement
early this morning that he satisfied that
the woman committed suicide during moment
of hysterical insanity.
Boston. Jan Mrs. Emma Isabel Peabody. who
committed suicide in NewYork to-day. was the
daughter OF Mrs. Elizabeth Leavitt, of No. 37S
Washington-st Brookne, and niece of Mrs
George Willcomb. the wife of prominent manu-
racturer Of bedding, OF this city
Mrs Peabody attended Wellesley College 1or
wear Before she twenty years OF age she
married a Mr. Peabody of this city The marriage
was not happy and the couple separated
II is believed here that Mr.. Peabody is dead The
ract that Mrs Peabody took her own life dld not
sunrise her relatives In this CITY, as they nave
baen aware for some time that the woman was
desnopdent Arrangements were perfected for
+ri, abroad for Mrs Peabody last September, but
something interfered. While in New-York Mrs
Peabody supported herself by her writings. She
was thirty-seven years old