St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-13
The Coat on the Fridge Was
Nothing but a Little
ee Game.
Particle Did Not Suicide, but
Was Working a Little
-. Scheme.
He Wrote High Moral Letters
on the Subject to the
Globe.
The Missing Chorus Girl Safe
With Her Mother in
Albany.

Opinion as to whether Samuel S. Par
tello. or ''Suily," as he was called by
members OF the Winston Opera COM
pany, committed suicide is abb. ,ly
divided. Several of the me. OF
the company Say from his actons ana
talk during the last week it is just what
they expected. A party of his acquaint-
ances visited the banks of the river
yesterday, but did not discover his body.
The letter found among the effects in
the coat left on the Wabasna street
bridge directed to Miss May Burt, of the
opera company. was delivered yesterday.
Miss Burt said the letter was almost Il
repetition Of the one published in the
GLOBE yesterday. In the letter he says
1t would have been mailed but he
lacked the necessary amount to buy
postage stamp.
From members of the company who
We're more or less intimate with Par
teilo and his wife it was learned that
the couple he'd not been living very
happily for some time. Particle was
lnSaneiy jealous Of his wife. He was
some twenty years her senior, and had
been in ill-health for long time and
had become very dOwn-hearted. His
engagement with the company ended
June p. and on that date he
Went to Chicago
for medical treatment. On his return
from Chicago, July 3, he found his wife
had left the company and the city. He
visited the police station and wanted a
warrant for the arrest OF one .Mackubin,
who. he alleges, had abducted her. The
evidence as to the abduction, ii there
was one, was not at all positive, and the
police refused to act. He spent last
week in tracing the movements of his
wife. and according to his story
found enough evidence to prove she
had at least been indiScreet He talked
with the members of the company about
his troubles and said all he wanted was
to vindicate his honor. From the course
he pursued it seems he did 1t in his own
way. A letter was received from Mrs.
Particle by one OF the members of the
company yesterday, which announced
her safe arrival at her home in Albany.
In the letter she asks to be informed as
to how '.Sully" took her departure.
The systematic manner in which Par
tello noted down the events of each
day, from July to 10, in diary. and
The Explanatory Notes
concerning his wife's alleged unfaith-
fulness give the idea that he has
not made away with himself. This I'M
preston is strengthened by a letter re-
ceived at the GLOBE Office Monday
morning. The handwriting is the same
as that in which Particle kept his diary,
and demands in the interest of good
morals that public attention be called
Particle by a man named Mackubin
during the absence of the fus-
band in Chicago The letter fur-
Their explained that the betrayed
girl had been on the stage
but few months and had not learned
all its pitfalls. A glowing tribute was
paid in the letter to tine family cOnnec-
tons OF the husband, and the charges
made against Mrs. Particle by her hus-
band explained at length. The letter
was signed Ajax" and detailed the
minute manner as in the diary left by
the supposed suicide.
The trunks belonging to Particle
which had been in storage
at the Peoples express office
Oh Ninth street were removed to the
union depot Monday night. A visit to
the baggage room yesterday afternoon
resulted in the discovery that I'll e
trunks
were Not Gheres
This was another point against the
suicide theory. Particle was known to
have had a ticket to Chicago Oh Mon
day, and he probably checked the
trunks to that point before he left the
coat on the bridge.
Manager Ford, of tile opera company,
seen last night. said he should have to
see the body before he would believe
''Sully" had suicided. Particle and his
wife, he said, had been with the COM
pahy since it started from New York in
April last. The couple had not got
along well, at least he had been i'll
Termed so by other members, and on one
occasion Particle mad torn up his wife's
hat and shawl and thrown them from
the car window. Particle was in poor
health and very jealous of his wife, and
these taken together mad caused
return from Chicago ten. days ago
Particle had been very dOwn-hearted.
He tried to cheer him up, but without
success. He had heard Partello's side
of the case, and had also been Informed
by Mrs. Particle that she did not intend
to leave st. Paul with her husband
when the season was over. At 10 80
Monday night, as he was passing from
the stage to the box Office, Particle had
asked MN 1Or the
Loan Of So.
Not having the amount in change, he
told Particle to come around in the
morning and he would get it. Particle,
he said, was a widOwer when he married
his present wife, and two children by
his former wife were now living with
relatives in New York. 1t was posi- bile
that Particle had committed suicide,
but he thought not.
One of the members of the company,
we'll acquainted with Particle, said the
marriage with Nettie Hutchins. that
being his wife's maiden name, was an
| ill-advised affair. The girl was very
| young at the time, being not more than
sixteen years old, and, becoming infatu-
| ated with the idea of stage life, mar
| ried Particle. Their child, now nearly
| a year old, was at Mrs. Particles home,
| and this season was the mothers first
appearance on the stage. She was very
| charges made BY the husband against
| her.
Another member said Particle was an
expert swimmer, and, even mad he
| jumped from the bridge, would have
| been able to save himself if he were not
| dead before he struck the water. Man.
| ager Scott, of the Metropolitan, said it
| looked like case of 'sred fire" and
'quick curtain" to him, and was of the
opinion that Particle wanted a little
free advertising. Chief of Detectives
Mason said the theory of suicide was
prepoSIerous, and, from what he had
learned. it was very clever fake on
Partello's part.
July at the ssPlymOuth,, Corner.
TWenty-Second Red Figure Sale.