Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-09-19
TWO LOVERS SHOTS.
A REMARKABLE DOUBLE TRAGEDY II NEW
YORK CITY.
4 Girl Shoots Herself in Her Room Which IS ih'
Signal flr Her Lover 10 Put a Ball Through
His Head Beneath Her Window.
The Death Signal.

New YORK, September ls.-Two
strange shooting cases, which the police
are investigating, took place here early
this morning.
The first was that OF Emile RoSsi, 10
years of age. She committed suicide by
shooting herself in the breast with 32-
calibre revolver in her room at l4O
Canal street
Immediately the report of the girls
pistol was heard GuStaye G.. Koch, who
stood on the Elevated Railroad plat
form, almost under her room window.
sent a bullet through his head.
About daybreak, fair haired Ger
man, Stalwart and handsome, entered
the Elevated Railway Station. The
man paced up and down the platform.
After while wOmanS voice was
heard to speak a word or two Of Ger
man from window overlooking where
the man stood. The man nodded and
replied loud enough for the gateman to
hear him: YES, 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 had rushed forward,
heard what seemed to be an echo of the
shot, coming apparently from the win
dow OF the house overlooking the end Of
the platform where the dead man lay.
No attention was paid to il, as they
were attending to the dead man. Police
men and physicians were hurriedly
called. but when they arrived the man
was dead. lie had shot himself through
the temple.
TIE SECOND TRAGEDY.
While the officers were examining the
clothing and effects OF the suicide, Il
messenger rushed into the station house
and cried ont that woman had shot
herself at 40 Canal street. The keeper
of the Germania House had found Emi-
lie ROssl. AN actress, who boarded ia the
house. dead, shot through the heart.
The one window of her room. which
overlooked the south end of the uptown
platform, was the one which the gate
man had seen opened previously. and
from which the sound of the second shot
was heard. Behind the lace curtains
the woman had sut waiting for the trySt-
ing death signal. 1t had come, and az
the signal Ready the man fell dead
under the window and she shot herself
TO the heart within.
There lay three visiting cards with
! farewell messages over the name OF
Emile Ross. IL seemed as plain as
daylight that they had prearrangcd
their suicides Everything i'm the room
had been set To rights for the tragedy
in which she was about to play the lead
ing part. The girl had evidently
MADE EVERY PREPARATION
for 10 event, On the chair by the win
dow lay her clothing, carefully smoothed
out. She had been writing. and the
table was covered with small sheets OF
paper filled with her thoughts as she SAT
waiting. The hand was "a neat feminine
one, and did not appear to be in the
/ least trcmulouS The girl, rs She lay
/ on her side on the bed, was attircd in a
clean white night robe, with lace and
I frills. and yet there was not a SCOT or
stain upon 10 10 bctray the manner OF
her violent death. Only under her heart.
ON her barred breast. there was red
spot. and In the centre of 10 a small hole.
Not a single drop of blood had oozed
ont She. too, had died without strug-
gle. In the buttOnhOle of her robe a
spray of heliotrope was pinned. aud lay
over her breast. The face was very
handsome, her figure plump and petite.
They were handsome pair
emile RoSsi, aged 10 years. actress,
of Ambcrg'> troupe. born in Berlin.
Gustavc C.. Koch, rs years old, cray0n
artist, employed by l.. f. Falk. photog-
raphcr. al $40 Broadway. lived at 232
East Twelfth street This was the
brief Official record made 10y thfpolice.
% which some one added: They were
lovers, and died together.
OPPOSITION TO THEIR MAEuAGE.
Koch was crayon artist of consider
able local note. The name of his be-
trothed was Emile RosSi, young act
ress of 10 years employed in Ambcrg' S
Stock Company, who had temporarily
occupied the room where she committed
suicide. The cause Of the double sui
eide is unknown. but il is supposed 10
have resulted from the opposition which
! the girls mother had made to Emilic'>
marriage with the young artist.
Emile Bos,i had been ON the stage
since babyhood. Her father and mother
/ had lived in Berlin. lie was an Italian
tenor singer Of note, but is now dead.
/ The girl, 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 a good marriage The girl came
To this country two years ago and played
prominent parts in Ambcfg's Theatre
| Company. She went to Berlin during
| the past summer and returned here ON
the 9Th inst.