St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-11
THEIR TRAGIC FATE.
O. w. Rollings and Wife
We're Found Dead in
Bed,
PRESUMABLY SUFF0CATED.
No Evidence That They Had
Committed Sui
eide.
PRESUMABLY SUFFoCATED.
MARRIED IN ST. PAUL.
The Police Will Make a Thor
ough Investiga-
ton.

For the past three or four days the
neighbors around Sixth and Emerson
avenues north have noticed that the
cosy little twO-story cottage standing
on the corner has been very quiet,
and they began to wonder what had
become of its occupants. The curtains
were raised. and there was no III
dicatiou that the young couple who
occupied it were lying dead within.
O. W. Roilings has been employed as
flour packer in the Washburn- Crosby
and Pillsbury mills at different times,
and was always a jolly companion
among his fellow Workmen. He was
last employed in the Pillsbury mill, but
has been out of work for two weeks
owing to the mills cutting down
their force of men. Yesterday the
neighbors where Mr.. RolliDgs and his
pretty wife resided took it upon them
selves to make an investigation. Mrs.
w. j. Moore. who lives only few doors
from the Rollings residence, went to see
what was the matter. She first Knocked
at the kitchen door, and receiving no re-
Spouse went around to the font en-
trance. but vigorous knocking upon
the door failed to get any kind of an
answer from within.
She mistrusted then that something
was wrong inside. She consulted with
some of the neighbors, and 1t was de-
cided to break i'll the rear door. One of
them went for an AK, and all entrance
was soon gained. Mrs. Moore was the
first to enter. She passed through the
kitchen on into the front parlor. The
moment her eyes caught sight of the
bed in the room she witnessed
something she will not very soon
forget. There stretched on the bed
lay the young couple dead. She was so
frightened at the sight that she went to
the back door and called for the police
at the top of her voice. Officer James
O'Neill, who was only a block away,
heard her cries ana responded quickly.
He hastily telephoned for the coroner.
and then started to make an inVestiga-
ton to see if he could find out the cause
of death. The front parlOr is con-
nected with small back room by
double folding doors. In the
rear room is a small stove, One of the
legs OF the stove was of, and the pipe
was disiointed, which points strongly
to the superstition that the man ana
woman had been asphyXiated by coal
gas which had escaped from the stove
during the night. There was q bottle
of carboiic acid partly filled in the rear
room on the bureau. but the cork was
i'm the bottle. and the police on looking
around failed 10 lind any clue that
would lead to the suppOsition that they
had committed suicide.
ROllings was married to Irene Byers
at st. Paul, Nov :, 1898, and the Young
people Immediately began housekeep-
ing in this city. Mrs. Rollings. the
! neighbors say, mas been sufferer from
consumption for several months past,
and has lately been confined to her
bed most OF the time. The last
seen of either Of the couple was Mon
day morning. when Mrs. ROllings went
to the grcery store, 50 it is presumed
that they must have died Monday night.
Both of the bodies were removed to the
morgue, where autopsies will be made
to ascertain the cause of death.