Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1901 — TRAGEDY AT CHICAGO [ARTICLE]

TRAGEDY AT CHICAGO

Man and Wife Pound Dead in the Great Northern Hotel. Chicago, June 12.— IahjIh Ilnrtman Of New York killed Miss Ilotte Lefetirere, known on the stage as Bose Violet, In ber room in the Great Northern hotel early in the morning, and thenteommitted suicide. The room stbowed no evidence ot a struggle, both lifeless forms were composed, the covering of the bed well tucked about them, but the revolver clutched In the right hand of the husband toid tbe story of tiie tragedy. Of the pair that courted death so successfully nothing is known by the managers of tiie hotel, beyond a report that the man has wealthy connections tn New York and that the woman was once apparently an actress under the Ftage name of Rose Vlolrt. From inCormatlon given by a woman who Inquired for them It is supposed that the case Is one of a runaway marriage, with death as the result of despondency over the obduracy of an unforgiving father.