Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1909 — DIES FOR LOVE OF ACTRESS [ARTICLE]

DIES FOR LOVE OF ACTRESS

Woman Becomes Hysterical In Presence of Wealthy Cuban's Body. New York, July 16. —Suicide ended the gay career of a wealthy young Cuban when Juan Balsinde shot himself in his apartment at 211 East Fourteenth street. Louisa Von Oeston, an actress with whom the young Cuban was infatuated, called at the morgue. She knelt beside the body, kissed the lips repeatedly and cried: “Oh, why did you do this? Why were you so foolish?” Becoming hysterical, she was led away. “He asked me to marry him,” she said, “and when I refused, he remarked that he would end his life.” . .