Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1890-09-19
THEY DIED FOR LOVE.
rhe Remarkable Tragedy Enacted by a
Young German Couple.

NEW YORK, Sept. 1.-two German low
srs, one young actress who wanted to
lie, and the other a young artist who
didn't want 30 die but wanted to marry
hor, enacted a lurid Bowery melodrama
Just before sunrise by simultaneously, or
rs near as they could come to it. murder
Ing themselves with pistols, the girl in her
room at the southeast corner OF Canal and
Bowery, and the man on tho elevated rail
road station under her window. The man
seems to have killed himself at the instiga-
tion OF the girl.
The actress was Emile Rossi, who ar
rived here from Hamburg on Aug. 81 to
play juvenile roles in the Amberg theatre
this winter. The man was Gustav Koch,
who had been Photographer Falk's chief
crayou artist and retoueher for four years.
Emilie Rossi was only 19 She played in
the Thalia theatre three years ago and
made success She first met Koch then.
Koch was then married, but childless.
He got a divorce, and had been living
alone for a year ia "A rented room 10 ~
East Twelfth street Since Miss Rossi's
last arrival in New York the two had been
much together. He was her acknowledged
snitor.
Mime. Emile Rossi, the girls mother, is
known in Berlin and Hamburg as a popu
lar writer Of noveettes and comedies. She
became very ambitious that her young
daughter should marry well. The girl,
however, was crazy to 60 on the stage, and
did so before she was Is years old. She
made a quick success in light juvenile
parts in Berlin, and when Gustav Amberg
went over in 1887 he engaged her for a sea-
son in New York
just after o'clock Koch came up the
steps OF the elevated station and walked to
the south end of the platform. Ticket
Chopper Edward Barton saw him look up
at tho third window of the house. He was
dressed with great care. About quarter
after the gateman heard voices, and
turned round TO look at the man. He was
speaking in low voice TO some one in the
window above him. The other voice was
that OF woman. Both spoke very earn
estly, but too low for the gateman to over
hear. Then the man rested one hand on
the railing, facing the window, dropped
his head on his chest, and stood motion
less. Immediately there waA tho mufilsd
sound OF pistol shot. II seemed to come
from the house. Almost Immediately after
ward there was a loud report, and the gate
man eaw tho man staggeg aud fail. He
bad new 9S-caliber revolver In his hand
and hole in his right temple a little
higher than tho ear. He appeared to be
dead
The gsteman shouted an alarm and told
Of the other pistol shot hs had heard. Mr..
Knorrn hurried to Miss Roesi's room, the
door Of which was found open. The girl
lay upon her bed, dead. A new 32caliber
revolver lay beside her.
The girl had been up, prepared evidently
for the tryst She had been writing, and
the table was covered with letter sheets
written over in a neat, feminine hand
The girl herself as she lay upon her white
bed was arrayed in a white night dress
| decked with lace Under her heart ther,
was a red spot on her white skin, whict
betrayed where the bullet had entered
In her white robe spray Of heliotrop,
was pinned. Across her bosom was spread
d fine white handkerchief The bullet had
passed through it. A card was found ii
her room which had evidently come with
the handkerchief. 1t contained but few
words written in Koch's handwriting. II
presented her with This handkerchief be
dewed by my tearss"
From letters left by the girl she had de
termned to die because Of the opposition
Of her parents to her career, ard had urged
Koch to die with her.