St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-14
INTO THEDARK WATERS
A Flaxen-Haired German Beauty Of st.
Louis Attempts Suicide Through
Sympathy.
The Sensational Iglehart- Tevis Scandal
Revived By the Formers De-
sire to Die.
Dynamite Conspfrator With
ssHoly Joe'' O,NeiI.
They Sought oblivion.

I They Sought Oblivion.
Correspondence of the Globe.
! ST. LOUIS, June 11.-Mrs. Martha Diegl,
very pretty little blue-eyed, faxen-h haired
German matrOn. living in South st. Louis,
has developed an entirely new reason for
suicide. By the way, isn't it queer that all
the ladies who get into scrapes should be
uniformly beautiful? There was an old
city editor of mine, who indicted me into
the craft who used to insist upon making
all of the ladies in all the scandals raw
ishingly lovely, with pellucid clinging
drapery. Mrs. Diegl would have just suited
him.. She rejoices in a sea-shell complex
ion, very small but very perfect figure,
and dreamy, swimming eyes. She has hus-
band who is very prosaic man, while the
tear of senSibility trembles always in her eye.
She also has friend, Sophie Bonnekamp,
| and this friend has baby, although she is
not provided with a husband. Mrs. Diegl
took in Sophie and her child to live with
her. Mr.. Diegl objected. He put it that
neither was he keeping an asylum nor was
| he running an eleemosynary institute He
fired Sophie. Mrs. Diegl then went and
condoled with her elected friend and the
two concluded that the only thing for them
to do was to cast themselves into the turbid
waters of the Mississippi. That conclusion
was not arrived at for some time, however.
Mrs. Diegl urged her friend to kill
| herself as proper rebuke to
her husbands parSimOny. Miss Bonnekamp
thought that if Martha Diegl were to kill
herself the rebuke would be much more
crushing. This point was argued, it ap-
pears, at much length, and finally Sophie
would only agree to drown herself on con-
dition that Martha should also take the
FOL
and the two women, about half past
| o'clock, went down to ferry boat
moored on the levee. They were discov-
| cred by policeman just as they were bid
| ding each other a romantic farewell and
! led off to the station, where the two passed
the night The next morning found them
both penltent and fearful. Martha has
| gone back to her husband and Sophie has
taken situation as housemaid in the house
of Good Samaritan who, rumor says, is
very fond of playing the role of Good Samar-
itan to good-looking young persons of the
4 female sex who have met with misfortune.
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Frank Iglehart tried to kill himself yes
terday in Chicago. The news of his at
tempt has created a profound sensation i'll
st. Louis. 1t appears that he was absO-
| lutely penniless; he had spent his last nickel
for glass of beer on his way to the lake to
cast himself into the water. This revives
one of the most painful scandals in st.
Louis society. Some two years ago Frank
| Iglehart was the cashier of the banking
house of BarthOlow, Lewis & Co. He was
a favorite in society and had the entree into
the most exclusive houses in ST. Louis. He
met Mrs. Rush Tevis, who was niece of
Gen. W. Z. Sherman, who was in society
herself and whose husband was connected
with the best families here. She was one
of those red-haired. blue-eyed women who
seem to be born for the purpose Of driving
men to desperation. A most passionate and
unholy love sprung up between the wife
and the husbands friend. One summer
afternoon, just as Mrs. Tevis and Iglehart
| had come out of fashionable house
of ill-repute, they were met by
Mr.. TeviS and a private detective,
who had been shadowing them, and Teyis
shot Iglehart. He fell and Tevis was
| dragged away. Mrs. Teyis remained with
| the wounded man and supported him to
street car and to his home, her work prob
ably saving his life. Of course the Tevis
family was broken up. She went home to
her father, who is a brigadier general in the
army, and was very quiet in Philadelphia
for some time. Iglehart recovered from
| his wounds, but no one would have any
thing to do with him. 1t was felt that
he had abused Tevis' confidence,
whose bread and salt he had
eaten. Tevis got a divorce and
then went to Pennsylvania and married
his wife over again, bringing her back to
St. Louis, where he has always had an ex-
cellent business. Iglehart went to the dogs
as rapidly as he could, and few in st. Louis
knew what had become of him till the story
of his attempted suicide was telegraphed
over the country. Rush Tevis lived with
his forgiven wife until the endof last winter
when he came home one evening and, after
kissing her and his child very calmly, pro-
duced pistol with which he killed himself.
He had discovered fresh infdelity. She,
too, has disappeared, although there are
| stories that go to establish the fact that she
has thrown off all disguise and has openly
| Joined the half world. She is most attrac-
tive, not pretty, but beautifully moulded.
Her hair is dull red, and her face and her
| arms are the SmOotheSt and fairest eEe1
shown at swell gathering in ST. Louis.
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It appears that poor Nellie Haseltine is
not to be left quiet in the grave. She was
''the belle of st. LOUIS in her time and
her marriage with Frederick Paramore, the
son of the president of the Texas q st.
Louis railroad, was the most brilliant So
ciety event of it's year. She died a few
days after her baby was born. Nellie was,
without doubt, the most beautiful woman
at the South-she was not the wisest.
| Of course there was nothing
really wrong in anything THAI
she did. but she got a great de al of adj
vertising throughout the country, first from
her reported engagement to marry S. j.
Tilden of New York, and next through her
connection with man named Amweg a
comic opera singer. She had seen Amweg
on the stage and began a Irritation with
him, during which she gave h ina her photo
| graph and wrote him several very silly
letters Her brother and Fred Paramofe,
to whom she was engaged, decoyed
Amweg into room and attempted to beat
him and take his documentary
evidence away from him. He had been
showing it to great many people. Well,
| the boys did not thrash him nor did they
get the papers and the photograph, but he
sued them for $50, 900 damages for assaults
and of course the whole affair was ex-
ploded. 1t was finally compromised by .
large payment of money to the injured
opera singer. Nellie's life and her3 letters
are now to be published in an edition de
luxe, $25 copy, and her mother, it is.said.
has taken pains to notify all of her friends
of the impending publication. If the story
of her life were truly told, it would doubt
less be valuable book.
! NV
| Mr.. Fred. Mersman, of whose divorce
proceedings have kept you informed, has
already returned to the object of his adora-
ton for whose sake he horsewhipped his
wife. The matter has become so public
that Mrs. M. is now being generally cut by