New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-03
Assistant Secretary of Mis-
souri, Pacific Ends Life
by Bullet.
ILL HEALTH GIVEN
AS CAUSE OF DEED
Long Under Doctors Care
Note Beside Body Found in
Broadway Office.

Guy Phillips, assistant secretary OF
the Missouri Pacific Railroad and an
official Of several other railroads and
realty companies, shot and killed him
self last night in his Office at 165
Broadway.
Mr.. Phillips city home was at l
West 64th st. and his country home at
parien, Conn. where his wife and
daughter are living.
He was assistant secretary to the st.
Louis, Iron Mountain g. Southern Rail
way Company, secretary to the Iron
Mountain Car Trust Company, presi
dent Of the Opera House Realty Com
pany, in which he was director;
treasurer and a director Of the Rich
mond & Chesapeake Bay Railway
Company; secretary. treasurer and
director of the Three States Realty
Company. and assistant secretary, as
sistant treasurer and a director in the
Virginia Railway and Power Com
pany.
About 9 o'clock Edward Murphy,
night watchman in the building at lGo
Broadway, passed Mr.. Phillips's Office,
the record room of the Missouri Pacilc,
on the eighth floor, and through the
open door saw Mr.. Phillips at his desk.
apparently at work. Murphy did not
speak as he passed
An hour later. when making MS
round again. Murphy found the door
still open Mr.. Phillips was lying for
ward on his desk. Murphy went in and
found Mr.. Phillips dead. revolver
was on the floor under his chair.
On the table beside the body was the
following note in Mr. Philhps's hand
writing:
please notify my wife, Mrs. Guy
Phillips. Darien. Conn. Ring four
times Also notify "A. II. Calef, Sea
bright, y. J. Telephone, 40 Seabrlght'
and DIR. Harry MofFat, Yonkers. lele-
phone, 1O7 Yonkers.
In one Of Mr.. Phillips's pockets were
SO and a commutation ticket 10 Dal'TH
on the New Haven Railroad, goId
watch. eyeglasses and other arucIGs.,
Until about two years ago Mr.. fnll-
Inns lived at Yonkers. His nephew
SCHUYLER Phillips. now lives at the
Saegkill Golf Club, on North Broad
way. Yonkers. L..
unclc's suicide, said he could account
for il only by the fact that Mr.. Phllilps
had been in bad health for more than
a year. He at once telephoned to MS
mother. Mrs. +. A. Phillips, at Darier'
q sister of Mrs. Guy Phillips. the Phil-
lips brothers having married TWO SIS
tiers.
Mrs. +. A. Phillips replied over the
telephone that she would break tne
news 10 her sister and leave on the
next train for this city to claim the
BODY. Schuyler Phillips fastened 10
New York and went to the Missouri
Pacific Offices.
on Gienwood av. and Pine ST. lts
grounds adjoined those of the home Il
+. :. perot. the cable man. before
Joining the Missouri-Paclic Mr.. PM,
lips was private secretary to severai
millioraires. ,,-
told a reporter of The Tribune t9at
Mr.. Phillips was patient OF MS lor
many years, and recently had Deeh SUI
fering from severe depression. ii
"For more than a month past, sald
Dr MofFat. 81 have been fearing that
Mr. Phillips would have nervous
breakdown, Dul ia" "N
would come in this way.
"Nr. Phillips was siXty-one or sixty
two wears old. and for many years was
connected with the Missouri-Paciiic
For more than thirty years he was a
member of the Mendelssohn Glee Club
in New York. He has one child, a
daughter, Miss Elise Phillips, who is
nineteen years old
Darien. Conn, July g.. No reason for
the suicide Of Guy Phillips in New
York last night could be given at his
home here early to-day. His wife was
Frustrated by the news. His daughter
said her father hai been working hard
lately apd the act might possibly have
been due to overwork.