The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-20
A WOMAN'o FUZZY.
TRAGIC ILLUSTRATION OF HoMER's VERSE
MURDER AND SUICIDE IN SAN FRANCISCO.

A TRAGIC ILLUSTRATION OF HoMER's VERSE
MURDER AND SUICIDE IN SAN FRANCISCO.
From tho San Francisco Mail, Augusta
Yesterday forenoon about ten o'clock, guests of
the International Hotel, Nos. s24 and s26 Kearny
street, were startled by the report of pistol There
general rush to tho second story OF the house.
whence the sound came. Smoke was seen coming
through the open window OF one OF the inside rooms
Before any could enter the pistol was discharged
again. The door was found TO DO unlocked and the
people who entered were confronted by u horrible
scene. man, his hood in pool Of blood lay upon
the floor and across him was stretched the body OF
woman. He was breathing his last in UNCONSCIOUS
and Sue was In tho agon,cs OF death, but able
TO speak. Her clothing on the left side burning
and IN few moments moro both would have
been wrapped flames. The lire was queuched and
the doctor sent for In the meantime the woman was
questioned and she gasped out that the had shot
her, when she died. Tho man also dead This
was tho close OF unlawful love. Tue man, Henry A.
Rosewarn, an Englishman, forty years OF age,
tho superintendent OF the st. Lawrence nine, in FL
Dorado county, OF this State. The woman, Mrs jessie
Lewis an Engishwoman, about thirty three years OF
age, aud her husband, kept boarding house IN tho
neigaborhood Of tho mine Rosewaro, u hue looking
man, aud Mrs. Lewis, u handsome woman, became
friends Although he mad vile and family England
and she husband with ner, they became intimate.
tho husband, Instead OF resorting to the shotgun,
chose the more peaceful and prudent course Of retiring
from tho field, and belook himself Los Angeles For
sundry reasons, which ~ easily be conjecured, MIRA
Lewis closed her boarding houss In October last
cano down 70 ths clly put up ut the International
Hotel and has lived there ever since From lime 10
time Rosewarn paid her visit and II rs presumed
that he sIpp5rted her. According 10 some oi Rose
warns trends Of ato the connection became dstasto
full to him. and he was anxious to break 1t of. Mrs
LOWS woman OF intelligence, Is SAID to have made
persstent Efforts 10 get work of some that she
might support herself but AFTER dong hor best could
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had sacrificed everything Ia the world Rose
warn and no doubt 10 HIM sho attributed the blame OF
her trying situation. THIS was bitter enough but
added was the misery OF jealousy anu the suspc
forced upon her that sue had the usually
ovcrtakesa woman who throws aside honor friends
for man. sake-Lad become u hateful burden to her
lover. Ihs soon became certainty. On the 19tn Of
last month Rosewarn arrived IN the city from tho
mine and registered AZ the International 1t is prop
able that there was scene between thcm Tor he left
the house next day. and up 10 the time Of his violent
death occupied other lodg ng Before warn last
arrival Mfs Lewis hud always been able to pay her
bills ut the hotel but during the last few weeks
was without money and she grew desperate. The PEG
ple the nole that la,terly she acted Oddly If
the difficulties OF her position were driving mad.
IL known that Rosewarn gave her TO understand that
a lew evenings ago on Kcarny street, near
tho hotel walking together and taking OK
street and lett him. but presently ran back and
rcjoincu him. That expressed tho situation She
could NOT and would not let MIN 20. he had brought
hort what she VAS and she determined that sue
would not be deserted and forced by poverty into tho
net that opened before her. ON Saturday she applied
to Roscwarn Tor assis'aoce Whether no gave her
money or not rs not known, but friend OF his IN
formed Mai reporter that he advised Mrs. Lewis to
return 10 her husband. Yesterday morning Roscwarn
IN company with his brother and friend walked To-
ward the international. On the way he Stopped to
have his boots BACKED. On entering the hotel he
paused In the ONCE n few minutes and talked with
gentleman, saying, among other things. that he
thought he should 30 10 church that day Then, telling
hle brother that ne would he down presently lie went
briskly up stairs About ten minutes aiterward tho
pistol shot was heard Notwithstanding the dying
statement OF the woman there is hardy doubt that
IL was che who shot him and herself Everything goes
to show This An examination oil the bodies by the
Coroner showed a wound 10 the back OF Rosewarn's
head where II would DC next to impossible that he
could shoot himself. she the lett side,
the weapon was held so close that the powder sol IRE
10 her clothing The revolver WAS Iound lying upon
hor uody. ana she lay upon the corpse Of her
scducer Although her friends assert that she
did not have pistol IN her possession search OF
The room resulted in hndins a box OF cartridges "A
rcculc belonging TO her aud the cartridges htied the
Chamber vi the revolver ON the table before when
the body Oh Rosewarn WAS found lying, ana
which lie had no doubt been sitting, a sheet OF
paper which, IN pencil, and his writing was the
beginning OF letter TO the womanis husband begin
NINA, "My dear George" From the end OF hnal ''e'
long pencil scrawl was DRAM down the paper
as the writer had been shot while tue very
writing. aud the fingers mad retained their hold upon
the pencil as he fell backward That he did fail back
ward Was oviuent as The back OF the chair broken
OIL by his weight. There Is, therefore, little doub.
that Rosewarn went to tho desperate woman room
Tor Inc purpose oil having decisive interview and
mat no renewed hts advice that they should SEPARATE
and that she should endeavor MAKE her peace with
her husband Insisting upon This he sat down to pen
letc making that proposal 10 the they had both
wronged. u would DO bard to CONCEIVE anything that
would sooner make u dend OF woman than such
suggestion IRON the man for whom she had forsaken
husband and Was at the moment that tie outraged
creature saw her seducer down 10 coo!y pen such
"a message to the husband that she sent tho bal
crashing INTO lis brain, ana then turned tho pistol
upon herself