Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-24
DEATH WED THE TWAIN.
Shocking Suicide of Two Young New Yrok
Lovers.

Shocking Suicide of Two Young New Yrok
| Lovers.
NEW YORK, Sept. 1S.-Two strange
shooting cases which the police here
are investigating took place early this
morning. The first was that of Emily
| Rossi, 10 years Of age. She committed
suicide by shooting herself in the breast
with thirty-two calibre revolver, in her
room at l40 Canal Street
Immediately the report of the girls
pistol was heard Gustav G.. Kock, who
stood on the Elevated Railroad platform.
almost under her room window, sent
bullet through his head. Both are Ger
mans, and just at present it looks as if
| they had agreed to die at or near the
| same moment.
! About davbreak fair-haired Ger
man, stalwart and handsome, entered
| the elevated railroad station. The man
paced up and down the platform. Aft
Ell a while a woman's voice was heard to
| speak word or two Of German from
window overlooking where the man
stood. The man nodded and spoke
| loud enough for the gateman to hear
| him.
eyes, I have come, Emile. Are you
ready?
The answer from the window was not
| heard. The man turned on his heel
and took something 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,
| heardwhat seemed to be 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, as they were
attending 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
messenger rushed into the station
house and cried out that a woman had
shot herself at 40 Canal Street. The
keeper of the Germania Cafe there had
found Emile Rossi, who boarded in
the house, dead, shot through the heart.
Behind the lace curtains the
signal Ready" the man fell dead I'M
der the window, and she shot herself to
the heart within. There lay three Wis.,
iting cards with farewell messages over
the name of Emile Rossi. It seemed
as plain as daylight that they had
prearranged their suicides. Every
thing in the room had been set to rights
for the tragedy in which she was about
to play the leading 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
filled 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 a clean white night robe with lace
and frills, and yet there was not a 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 center of it a small hole.
Not single drop of blood had oozed
out. She, too had died without strug-
gle. In the buttonhole 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.
Emile Rossl, aged 10, actor of Amberg's
troupe. born in Berlin.
Gustav G. Koch, 26 years of age, crayon
artist, employed by B. F. Falk, pho
tographer, at 9i9 Broadway. Lived at 232
East Thrice nth Street.
This was the brief record made by
the police to which some one added,
''They were lovers and died together"
Koch was a crayon artist of some con-
siderable local note. The name of lis
betrothed was Emile Rossi, young
actress of 10 years, employed in AM
berg's Stock Company, who had tenn
pOrarily occupied the room where she
committed suicide.
The cause Of the double suicide is un-
known, but it is supposed to have re-
suited from the opposition which
the girls mother had to Emilie's mar
riage with the young artist.
Emile Rossi had been on the stage
since babyhood. Her father and moth
er had lived in Berlin. He was an Ital-
ian tenor singer of note, but is now dead.
The girls mother, who is still alive, is
the German writer and novelist Emile
Rossi. The mother was ambitious for
her child and hoped that she would
make q good marriage. The girl came
to this country two years ago and played
prominent parts in Amberg's Theater
Company. She went to Berlin during
the paet summer, and returned here on
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