Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1910 — KILLS WIFE AND HIMSELF [ARTICLE]

KILLS WIFE AND HIMSELF

Bartender Finds Her in Resort and Enacts Double Tragedy.

Evansville. Ind . ’ Aug 19. John Roth. 45 years old a bartender at the 1 Imperial hotel, shot and killed his wife. Mattie Roth. 44 years old and then turned the gun upon himself. Both died instantly. The shooting occurred in a resort on High street, I where Roth found his wife