The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-28
Had CIandestiGely Married
''GibsOn Girl Nurse" Only
Last Week.
POLICE SAY IT'S SUICIDE
Sister Thinks Her Brother Was
Murdered and Starts for the
Hub to Force Further Inyes.
tigation.-WidOw Is Pros '
trated in Brooklyn.

NEW YORK, Oct. 2S-That DR..
Albert Cushman Day, the young ply
sician, whose body was found in the
woods at Brookline, Mass, with a bullet
wound through his heart, was slain
was the firm belief today of his bride
of less than a week, who was known
in Boston as the "Gibson Girl Nurse"
and his sister. Mrs. Gustavus Wilson, of
327 Pearl street, Brooklyn, despite the
case of suicide.
Mrs. Wilson and her husband went
to Boston today, determined to force
the police to make a thorough investi-
CATION. Mrs. Estelle Callahan Day, the
young and pretty bride, was prostrated
at Mrs Wilson's home, and was not in
condition to undergo the trip to
Boston.
my brother and his wife were ex-
lceedingly happy" said Mrs. Wilson to-
day before leaving the, city, "and there
was not the slightest reason why he
should kill himself. Being a physician
it is hard for us to believe he would
use pistol / recall the night he and
Estelle came here they spoke about
doctors committing suicide, and my
brother remarked that it was strange
that any of them went to violent deaths
when chloroform and morphine and
other drugs can put one out of the
way so easily.
INV brother and Miss Callahan were
! secretly married by the Rev. Dr. w. Sher-
! man Thompson at Somerville last Wednes-
day, and they Immediately came TO our
home. where they intended TO spend Their
honeymoon. said Mrs. Wilson further.
HE wanted to keep the marriage secret,
but when Or. Thompson did marry them he
said he would have TO file the certificate
on certain date and until then 1t would
NOT become public" contlnted the sister.
"Probably stories in the newspapers that
he and his bride had come to New York
on the same boat without being married
upset him and caused him TO worry. | am
sure my mothers displeasure at first about
the wedding did not prompt him to end his
life because I had told her what lovely
girl Estele was, and 1 am positive that
when my mother met her she would care
for her as much as do
'If my brother did commit suicide, which
we very much doubt" she concluded, "it
may be that his mind was affected from
overwork The day after he and Estelle
came here he told me that he was worn
out, saying that he had 1S3 scarlet fever
cases to attend to-.
On Friday Or. Day read in Boston
newspaper an account of his disappearance
and that OF Miss Callahan and the init
mationt that they had eloped. Fearing
that the hospital authorities would sum-
marlly dismiss the nurse the physician
left his bride that night and went to Bos-
ton to learn If the marriage had been dis
covered.
On Saturday afternoon. n few hours be-
fore DIR. Days body was found the bride
recel',ed a telegram from him which said
that their elopement was known and tell
ing her 20 telegraph her resignation imme-
diatey to Miss Straub. the supervising
nurse OF the Boston City Hospital. Mrs.
Day sent the message to the hospital and
that night Mrs. Wilson got telegram
from the superintendent. telling her her
brother had committed suicide
Dr. Day was 25 years old, the same age
as his wife, and was graduated from Tufts
Medical College two years ago. He met
Miss callahan, who is a graduate nurse,
while doing duty at the relief station, a
branch of the City Hospital He conhded
TO his married sister several weeks ago
that he intended TO marry Miss Callahan.
who was known as the Gibson Girl
Nurse" and wrote TO her that they would
like to spend their honeymoon at her home
In Brooklyn