Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1908 — SUICIDE ENDS A DEBAUCH [ARTICLE]

SUICIDE ENDS A DEBAUCH

ROY GORMLEY, DETROIT, BHOOTB HIMSELF IN CHICAGO. Grain Broker Was Separated from His Wife by His Infatuation for Another Woman. Chicago, June 9. —Roy A. Gormley, a Detroit grain broker, ended a week’s debauch Monday afternoon by committing aalcide In his apartment at the Auditorium Annex. He shot himself in the left breast with a revolver, supposed to have been purchased only an hour before the commission of the deed. Employes of the hotel heard the shot, and on looking over the transom of the room occupied by Gormley saw him stretched on the floor. Gormley was 88 years old and married. Reports from Detroit say he recently was separated from his wife because of his infatuation for another woman. Shortly after the suicide, a woman called up the Annex by long distance phone from Detroit and asked to be connected with Gormley's room. When told he had killed himself, the woman exclaimed: “My God! Is that so?” and hung up the receiver, cutting off communication. The woman is supposed to have been the one who caused Gormley’s marital troubles, as his wife is not in Detroit. The dead man was a nephew of James H. Gormley of Bullard & Gormley, 78 State street, this city. * His father lives at Dayton, 0., and he telegraphed that he would arrive in Chicago to take charge of the remains.