The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-12-19
DR.. GILMORE COMMITS SUICIDE
WelI-Known WIIIlamspoH Physician Ends
His Life with Scaipei.

The Williamsport Gazette s.
Bulletin of last Saturday gives the
following account of the death of
DR.. William J. Gilmore. The de-
ceased was a son-in-law of Ernest
H. Sloan of Orangeville. The
article follows:
The news of the suicide Friday
afternoon of DR.. Thomas J. Gil
more, ex coroner Of Lycomiug
county, has shocked the entire city.
Mental alteration, following a long
illness from which the prominent
young physician had recovered
only few months ago, is advanced
as the cause of his self-destruction.
With keen scalpel he cut his throat
while standing in the cellar of his
Office. He was found lifeless short
ly after the noon hours lying face
downward in a pool of blood.
Dr.. Gilmore and his wife occu-
pied fiat above his office. During
Thursday night he suffered severely
from illness and at an early hour in
the morning DR.. Hardt was called
i'll. He was asleep when the doc
tor arrived and his pulse was nor
NAL. At about 9 o'clock he was
able TO 90 to his Office, where he
looked after his patients and seem
ed to feel all right again. A little
after IL O. clock the continued ring
ing of the telephone caused Mrs.
Gilmore to go to the office. She
was joined there by caller, Mrs.
William Scott, of William street,
who accompanied her to the cellar
when her suspicious led her there
to investigate. In the Office we've
the doctor coat and hat and surgi-
cal case, from which the scalpel
was missing. Mrs. Gilmore and
her friend, Mrs. Scott, made the
distressing discovery of the doctor's S
lifeless form on lighting their way
back into dark part of the cellar
with candle. Beside him was the
small knife that had penetrated his
neck and made the fatal incision.
DR.. Gilmore's surgical skill ena-
bled him to reach fatal spot at one
thrust of the scalpel. He severed
the carotid and sub-clavian arteries
OH the right side of his neck and the
flow of blood from these was so
swift and so copious that death
came in very short time. Mrs.
Gilmore had heard her husband
moving about the Office not more
than ten minutes before she found
his body. AS soon as the body was
| discovered the neighborhood was
alarmed. DR.. Hatch was the first
physician to arrive and pronounced
DR.. Gilmore dead,
Undoubtedly the first cause of
his suicide was the long illness that
DR.. Gilmore suffered last summer.
On April I6 last he married Miss
Mary Lial Sloan, Of Orangeville.
Three weeks later he became i'll
with typhoid fever. Admitted to
the Williamsport hospital virtually
on the eve of his departure for Eu-
rope on a wedding trip and for adj
vanced study in his profession, he
improved for time and then suf-
fered a relapse that threatened to
cause his death any day. At the
end of ten weeks he was able to
leave the hospital and went to
Orangeville, to recuperate. With
his wife he remained there several
weeks before resuming his practice.
Recently he appeared to be in fair
ly good health, but it is now be-
lieved that the long illness had left
deep impress.
The doctors wife, his father and
mother all were prostrated by the
shock of his death. His father,
Thomas J. Gilmore, Sr., was down
town when he learned of his sons
death. He had to be assisted home
in a cab. Drs. Harley and Ella
N. Ritter were called to attend Mrs.
Gilmore, the mother of DIR. Gil