The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-09-19
LOVE FEARS NOT DEATH.
Sensational Double Suicide oI
an Actress and an Artist.
OBJECTIONS TO THEIR UNION
By tho Ambitious Mother OF the Fair
Actress tho Cause OF tho Decd
One Passes Away Within u
Few Minutes of tho Other,

| Few Minutes of tho Other,
I New YoRx. Sept. ls.-Two s.rane
shooting cases, which the police are II
vestigating. took place here early thi
morning. The first was that OF Emil
lsossi, nineteen years Of age. She con
mitted suicide by shooting herself in tn
breast by thirty.two calibre revolver Il
her room at 40 Canal street. Immed
lately the report OF the girls pistol wa
heard, Gustave G. Koch, who stood Of
the elevated railroad platform, almos
under her room window, sent bulle
through his head. Both are Germans
and just at present it looks as II they hat
agreed to die q. or near the ssmc mo
ment.
About day break tair.haired German
stalwart and handsome, entered til.
elevated railroad station. The mar
paced up and dorn the platform. Afte,
awhile woman's voice was heard te
speak word or two OF German from q
window overlooking where the man
stood. The man nodded and replied loud
enough Tor the gateman to hear him.
10TH WERE READY.
"fes, have come Emilie. Are you
ready2"
The answer from the window was not
heard. The man turned on his heel.
aud took aomething from his pocket.
The next moment shot rang out and
the man fell heavily forward on his face.
Before the report had died away the
station man, who rushed forward, heard
what seemed to DO an echo of the shot
coming apparently from the window OF
the house overlooking the end OF the
platform where the dead man lay. No
attention was paid to it us they were at.
tending to the dead man. Policemen
and physicians were hurriedly called,
but when they arrived the man was
dead. He had shot himself through the
temple.
While the officers were examining
the clothing and effects OF the suicide, a
messenger rushed into the station house
and cried out that a woman had shot
herself at 14O Canal street. The keeper
OF the Germania hotel had found Emile
Rossi, an actress who boarded in the
house, dead, shot through the heart
The one window Of her room, which
overlooked the south end OF the up.
town platform, was the one which the
gaseman had seen opened previously
and from which the sound OF the second
shot was heard.
CAREFUL PREPARATIONS MADE,
Behind the lace curtains the woman
had eat waiting for the trysting death
slgual. It had come, and at the signal
ready" the man fell dead under the
window and the woman shot herself to
the heart within. There lay three visit
ing cards with farewell messages over the
name Of Emile Rossi. 1t seemed as
plain as daylight that they had pre.ar-
ranged their suicides. Everything
within the room had been set to rights
for the tragedy in which she was about
to play the !eadiug part. The girl had
evidently made every preparation for
the event. On the chair by the window
lay her clothing carefully smoothed out.
She had been writing and the table was
covered with small sheets Of paper
filed with her thoughts as she
sat waiting. The hand was neat,
feminine one, and did not appear to be
in the least tremulous. The girl as she
lay on her side on the bed was attired
in clean white night robe with lace
and frills and yet there was not spot
or stain upon it to betray the manner OF
her violent death. Only under her
heart on her barred breast there was
red spot, and in the centre OF it small
hole. Not single drop OF blood had
oozed out. She, too, had died without a
struggle. In the button hole OF her
robe, spray OF heliotrope was pinned
and lay over her breast. The face was
very handsome, her figure plump and
petite. They were handsome pair.
THEY WE'RE LOVERS, AND DIED TOGETHER.
Emile Rossi, aged nineteen years,
actress OF Amberg troupe, born in
Berlin.
"Gussave G. Koch, twenty.six years
old, crayon artist, employed by B. +.
Fals, photographer at 949 Broadway,
lived at 232 East Twelfth street."
This was the brief official record made
by the police, 10 which some one added,
"they were lovers, and died together"
Koch was u crayou artist OF some con-
siderable note. The name OF his be.
trothed was Emile Rossi, young
actress Of nineteen years. employed at
Amberg's stock company, who had tenn.
porarily occupied the room where she
committed suicide. The cause of the
double suicide is unknown, but it is sup.
posed to have resulted from the opposi.
lion which the girls mother had TO
Emilie's marriage with the young artist.
Emile Rossi had been on the stage since
babyhood. Her father and motder had
lived in Berlin. He was an Italian tenor
singer Of note, but is now dead. The
girls mother, who is still a native, is
the German writer and novelist Emile
Rossi. Tho mother was ambitious for
her child. and hoped that she would
make good marriage. The girl came to
this country two years ago and played
prominent parts in Amberg's theatre
company.
Natives Sack n Town.
SAN Francisco, Sept. Isl. ".
Ovens, merchant Of Manila, arrived
here yesterday in the steamship Gaelic.
He eays that a terrible massacre occurred
on August 10, ia the town Of Ponape, in
Gasoline Islands. The Spanish soldiers
were building a fortress outside of the