The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-12-09
NO PITY FOR HER.
A Variety Actress Takes Her
Own Life
BEFORE A LOOKING GLASS.
Edith vogeIcr Sends Bullet Through
Her Brain Because Life Had
No Pleasures for Her.

Mrs. Edith Vogeler, variety actress O.
some notoriety under the stage name O
E it'll Valentine. took her own life yester.
day morning by standing before looking
glass in room Is of the Lyttle lodging
house over the Budweiser saloon on Wash
ington street, placing a heavy revolver to
her temple and pulling the trigger.
The fact of the suicide was not discovered
for several hours, and then the person &c
first learn of the horrible deed was Joe
Vogeler. the woman's husband. Vogeler.
who deals faro in the Budweiser gambling
room, was relieved from duty about IL
O'Clock Sunday night. and went 10
the Vendome baths. where he remained
until IL O'Clock yesterday morning. Shortly
before noon he went to his room and was
Mortified to find the CORPSE of his wife
stretched out on the floor A CHASTITY
wound in the head and a pistol lying on
rhe floor told the story of the tragedy.
Vogeler at once ran down to the gambling
room and informed the attaches of the
place, who Immediately summoned the
coroner and the police.
An examination of the poom told almest
as plainly as could the words OF ar eve
witness the way the deed was done. Stand
ing in front of the mirror of her bureau the
woman had fired the shot into her right
temple. The weapon was 45-calibre Colt 8
revolver, and the heavy bail crashed
through the brain. passed out on the left
side of the head. and glancing upward
lodged in the ceiling. The wound where
the ball entered was q frightfu one, the
hole in the skull being large enough to adj
NIT mans hst There was also a large
hole where the ball made its exit.
The body was found lying in great pool
of clotted blood. The woman wore a light
pink wrapper, and set mingly had arisen
some time before the shot was fired. On
stand near by was note addressed to her
husband, saving that she was tined OF life
and beseeching him not TO mourn for her.
Among other articles found in the room
was complete outfit for opium smoking,
showing that the unfortunate woman was
a slave TO the drug. The exact time that
the shot was fired is not known, although
some men in the Budweiser saloon thought
they heard report about Z o'clock. A
number OF variety actresses, who room on
the same floor, were asleep during the
morning and did not hear the shot. Dan
Cain, who rooms in the next room to No.
Is, said that it was about o'clock when
he went to sleep and that someone was
moving about in the room at the time
The shot did not awaken him, but of
course occurred after he fell asleep.
The landlady OF the clearinghouse said ::
"Mr. and Mrs. Vogeler registered here on
the 18th of last June, and have since lived
here as man and wife. They seemed to be
very fond of each other. Her health was
very bad, though, and some time ago she
went to Providence hospital After stay
ing there two months she came back here,
two or three weeks ago. She has since
seemed low-spirited, and out of her right
mind"
The suicide was q woman OF 26 or % years
OF age. She was at one time performer IN
the variety theaters of the city under the
name of Edith Valentine. although she
and Vogeler claimed to be married. A
plain gold wedding-ring found on her finger,
with the inscription on the inside of u. ".
to E. "" seems good evidence of heir
claim.
When the police took charge of the room
where the suicide occurred Vogeler, among
other men present, was sent out. Shortly
afterward he disappeared and up to late
hour last night had not returned to the
lodging. house.