Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-25
STRANGE SUICIDES.
A German Woman In Her Room and a Man
on the Street at the Signal READY
Succeed in Shutting Oh.

NEW YORK, Sept. 1S.-Two strange
investigating, took place early this
morning. The first was that of Emily
Rossi, nineteen years of age. She COM
mitted suicide by shooting herself in the
breast with q 42-caliber revolver IN her
room, $40 Canal street. Immediately after
the report of the pistol was heard Gustave
q. Koch, who stood on the elevated
railroad platform almost under her room
window, sent bullet through his head.
Both are Germans, and at present it
looks as if they had agreed TO die at or
near the same moment. About day
break a far-haired German, stalwart
and handsome, entered the elevated
railroad station. The man paced up and
down the platform. After awhile q
woman's voice was heard to speak q
word or two OF German from Il window
overlooking where the man stood. The
man nodded and replied loud enough for
the gateman to hear him: eyes, have
come, Emily; are you ready?' The
answer from the woman 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 stationmaster
heard what seemed to be an echo of the
shot coming apparently from the window
of the house ut the end of the platform
where the dead man lay. No attention
was paid to it Us they were attending the
dead man. Policemen and physicians
were hurriedly called but when they ar
rived the man was dead. He had shot
himself through the temple. While the
officers were examining the clothing and
effects of the suicide O messenger
rushed into the station house and cried
out that u woman had shot herself at 40
Canal street. The keeper of the Ger
mania cafe went there and found Emily
Rossi, an actress who boarded in the
house, dead, shot through the heart.
One window of her room overlooking the
south end OF the uptown platform was
the one which the gGteman had seen
opened previously, and from which the
sound of q second shot Was heard. Be-
hind the lace curtains the woman had
sat awaiting for the death signal. 1t
had come, and at the signal "ready'
the man fell dead under the window and
she shot herself through the heart with
in. There lay three visiting cards with
farewell messages over the name of
Emily Rossi. 1t seemed as plain Us day
light that they had prearranged their
suicides.
Everything within the room had been
set to rights for the tragedy in which she
was about to play a Leading part. The
girl, as she lay on the bed, was attIred
in clear white night robe, with lace and
frills, and yet there was not spot or
stain on 1t 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 q small hole. Not
a single drop of blood had oozed out.
She, too, had died without a struggle.
In buttonhole of her robe q spray of
heliotrope was pinned and lay over her
breast. Her face was very handsome;
her figure plump and petite. They were
handsome pair.
emily Rossi, aged nineteen years,
actress of Amberg's troupe; born in
Berlin. Gustave &. Koch, twenty-six
years, crayon artist; employed by b. F.
Falk, photographer, ut $40 Broadway.
and lived at 232 East Twelfth street."
This was the brief official record made by
were lovers and died together.
Koch was a orayon artist of some local
note. The name of his betrothed was
Emily RoSsi, young actress nineteen
years OF age.
The cause of .he double suicide is I'M
known, but it is supposed to have been
opposition which the girl IS mother had to
Emily's marriage with the young artist.