The Excelsior Springs Daily Standard, Excelsior Springs, Clay county, Missouri, unknown date

The Kansas City Journal this morning contained an account of the suicide of Miss Mary Gulley, who formerly lived in Excelsior Springs. The family lived on Frances street in the residence now owned by H.C. Tindall and moved from her to Lawson about eight years ago, later going to Kansas City. Miss Gulley, 23 years old, a waitress in the Harvey lunch room in the Union Station committed suicide last night in the home of her brother Arthur Gulley, 3250 Warwick boulevard. In her room was found a note addressed to her mother, Mrs. Elvira Gulley, Lawson, Mo. The message, incoherent in portions, indicated the girl was despondent. She asked her family to blame no one for her act, to cremated her body, scatter her ashes to the four winds and forget she ever had lived. The envelope containing the death message inclosed $23 in currency with a notation that a weeks' salary was due her. Miss Gulley swallowed poison at 8 o'clock. She died two hours later in the general hospital. Miss Julia Gulley, who discovered her sister unconscious in her room notified police and P.G. Lovall and Pat Wheeler, patrolmen working out of the West port avenue station, answered the call. Lovall, after the girls, death, said he did not have the note, the he had given it to Thomas Cave, assistant station master, whom he described as a "friend of the family." Later, he said Cave had returned the note and its contents were made public. Still later in the night the patrolman said Cave obtained the note from Miss Julia Gulley and brought it to the police station after her learned the girl died in the hospital. Cave, who lives at 3936 Fisher Street, Rosedale district, Kansas City, Kan., before the girl's death asked newspaper men to not give her attempted suicide any publicity. At D. W. Newcomer's Sons undertaking parlors, 2107 East Ninth street, where the body was sent by Dr. Charles F. Nelson, deputy coroner, it was said Cave had guaranteed the funeral expenses. Dr. Nelson said he merely had viewed the body and order its disposition. He made not investigation he said, and did not know a note had been found.
The note: To Dear Mother and Family: Please forgive me, but I can't help it. Don't think it horrible because I might have done worse. It seems life is nothing to me. I believe life is what we make it, but I am hopeless. I have been feeling this coming on me for a long time. It seems there must be an end sooner