The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-12-05
YOUNG WIFE KILLS
BOTH SELF AND
SPOUSE MONDAY
Wanchese Couple Buried
Wednesday Following Dou-
BILE Tragedy Near Nor
folk

A Wanchese couple, victims of
murder and suicide by the frantic
wife, were buried Wednesday aft
ernoon, following services at the
Methodist Church at Wanchese.
Esau Edison Gallop, 81, and An
ME Laura Gallop, his wife, who
shot him and then herseslf, were
buried together in the Cudworth
Cemetery.
The couple were living in Ocean
View, Va, at the time of the ira
gedy Monday afternoon, which
had it's beginning in the dining
room and ended in the living room
of their home at 1915 Modoc Ave-
nue.. Gallop was a marine engi-
neer, employed by the McAllister
Towing Co. The couple had been
to Manteo over the week end. They
had been on the verge of separa-
ton many times The wife was
hysterical because her husband,
she said, did not treat her right
and properly provide for herself
and family.
Present at the time were Bar
bara Jean Gallop, IL, and the baby,
Alice May, 16 months old. The
other child, Oswald Edison, 16, was
not at home.
81 was in the next room when
my father was shot," Barbara Jean
related. "Then l saw mother come
from the dining room into the liv-
ing room with the gun in her hand.
l tried to get it away from her. ]
grabbed hold of it and yelled. My
mother wouldn't let go and the gun
was pointing at me. I was afraid
it might go off and shoot me. A
lady next door yelled to me to get
out Of the house and come over
there, so ran out of the front
door,"
AS Barbara Jean reached the
neighbours house, another shot was
heard. This was the one which
killed Mrs. Gallop.
The little girl said she heard nc
argument prior to the shooting,
.But mother had been sick" she
said.
Sgt. Ernest NJ. Towe, who in
vestigated for the homicide squad
said that Mrs. Gallop had been
treated by a physician for a nerv-
Gus breakdown earlier in the day
Following the double shooting
neighbors and Barbara Jean en-
tered and brought the baby out Of
the house.
Answering a call from neigh.
bors, Towe, Detective Lawrence
Benton and Patrolmen C. F. San
ders and ]. L. Skaggs arrived
They found Gallop sprawled on the
dining room floor, a gaping wound
in the top of his head. In the Iv.
ing room, beside the shotgun, lay
Mrs. Gallop, her head shattered by
the shotgun blast. The gun, Towe
said, had been fired twice.
The Gallops had been residing
in the Modoc Avenue bungalow fol-
about year.
Mrs. Gallop, daughter of the
late Albert and Mrs. Annie Laurie
CudwOrth Daniels, was a native OF
Wanchese, where she was a mem
Der of the Methodist Church.
In addition to the three chill
dren, she is survived by three
brothers, Curtis Daniels, of Man.
teo, Luther Daniels of Raleigh
and Clyde Daniels of Pittsburgh
Pa, and some half-brothers and
sisters.
Mr.. Gallop, son of Mrs. Delilah
Meekins Gallop, of Wanchese, and
the late Marvin Leslie Gallop, al
so was a native of Wanchese, and
like his wife, was a member Of
the Wanchese Methodist Church.
Besides the children and his
mother, he is survived by three
sisters, Mrs. Alice Hayman ard
Mrs. Stella John, both of Norfolk,
and Mrs. Theresa Daniels, of
Pittsburgh, and two brothers,
Lawrence Gallop and William Gal
lop, of Wanchese.