People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1893 — BY HER OWN HAND. [ARTICLE]

BY HER OWN HAND.

Moved by Some Hidden Sorrow Daisy Garland Kill* Herself. Washington, Oct 30. —Miss Daisy Garland, daughter of ex-United States Attorney General Garland, committed suicide at her home in this city by shooting herself Friday morning. She was 34 years old. Miss Garland had spent a very pleasant evening with her father and brothers Thursday night at their home, 915 Rhode Island avenue, and retired in good spirits. After breakfast Friday morning she retired to her room, where her brother Will went shortly after to talk with her concerning a theater party. He found the door locked, and not receiving any response to his calls burst into the room and found his sister lying on the floor dead. The bullet had passed through her heart He smelled gaa and thought at first that she had been asphyxiated, but upon examination found a bullet hole in her left side, and on the floor near her lay an old revolver which had been in the family for thirty years. From the position in which Miss Garland’s body lay it is evident that she had stood in front of a large mirror and taken deliberate aim at her heart. She had taken the precaution of turning on all the gas jets in the room so that in case the bullet failed in its deadly work the gas would smother her.

The ex-attorney general had left the house for his office, and it was an hour or more before his daughter’s awful death was known to him. He was so completely overcome that he could scarcely stand when the news was broken to him. He was aided to a chair until a carriage could be called to take him -home. The entire family was so everwhelmed with the shock that none of them could be seen.

The true cause of Miss Garland's selfinflicted death may never be known. She had a secret of some kind that preyed constantly on her mind, bnt it is said none of her friends knew exactly what it was. An intimate friend said this was the case. Many surmises as to the real cause would be made, he said, but as she had persistently refused to communicate it to any one it was probable the secret had died with her. It was thought, he said, by some of her associates that she had had a love affair which had turned out badly. If this were true, the family or friends professed not to know who the man in the case is. No one in the house heard the pistol shot, nor did any one hear her fall to the floor. About two months ago Miss Garland suddenly left home and was found in Baltimore, but since that time nothing peculiar has been noticed in her actions.