Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-03
coRoNER.s BUSY DAY.


&c. Louis Furnishes Four Subjects for In
quest Within Twensy-four Hours-An
AuicIde-Anotheri In SIght-OoubleT raGs-
dy In Tower Grove Park-A Veteran
Ends Life of sunering-A Spree and
Life Ended at Once-A Despondent
Mans Attempt.
ST. LOUIS. Sept 27.-When Rudolph
Schmitz, clothing dealer. was taking
ride through Tower Grove park about
$50 a. m. he discovered the forms of a
man and woman lying under a tree not
far from the north entrance. Dis
mounting, he proceeded to investigate,
and found that both were dead, each
having a bullet wound in the right
temple, from which the blood had
oozed, forming pool beneath each
head. Mr.. Schmitz at once notified the
police.
The bodies proved to be those OF
Celia Balm, aged 16, and Joseph
Reinsch, Jr., who had been press
man on morning paper. and the find
ing of note written by Miss Balm
would indicate that it was case of
mutual suicide. prompted by a hope
less love. The note read: ''Good-by
all used it for myself and he used
it for himself"
The hopelessness of their love is ex-
planned by the fact that Renisch had.
some time ago, been engaged to marry
Victoria Thouvenal, with whom he
quarreled before the wedding day and
cast aside, but not before he had
wronged her. This subsequently led
to his arrest. and to save himself from
Imprisonment he married Victoria, but
1suod xx-ifh hoy. IN he
meantime formed an attachment for
Miss Balm, which was reciprocated.
Miss Balin's father learned of the
attachment of the young people and
forbade mis- daughter keeping company
with Renisch on account of his being
married man, but her infatuation
was such that the lovers met clandes-
timely, and finally appear to have re-
solved that if they could not live to-
gether they could die together, and
the tragedy at Tower Grove park was
the sequel.
A Veteran Ends His sufferings by Suicide.
ST. LOUIS. Sept 27.-Henry SPAIN,
aged 70. veteran of the civil war,
ended his life by drowning himself in
the lake at Benton park.
OJANCI opuALC, Willie InohAAk Lilo ICk-
u1ar beat through the park about day
break. saw the old mans body floating
face downwards on the surface of the
lake.
Mr.. SPAIN, who lived with his son,
had long been sufferer from asthma,
| and it is said attempted to end his pain
by death once before.
Mr.. SPAIN left the house at a. m.
His son heard him stirring, but as the
! old gentleman had been unable to sleep
of late he thought nothing of it and
went to sleep again.
| Ended a spree and His Life With q
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 27.-Fred Koch, a
cabinetmaker, 33 years of age and mar
| ried, living at 311O Elliot avenue, COM
mitted suicide Wednesday night by
cutting his throat. Koch had 'been on
! a spree for two days, and when he COM
| mitted the rash act was under the in
/ f1uence of liquor. He was found in an
alley near his home by his wife at 7:15
p M. bleeding profusely from the
great cash in his neck. He was car
ried into the house and a doctor sum-
moned. The case was pronounced
hopeless, and he died at 8 o'clock.
Koch leaves a wife and two children
boys, aged and years
Cut HIs Throat and Stabbed Himself.
ST. Louis, Sept. 27.-Charles F.
Lewis, whose wife, from whom he has
been separated, lives at Pine Bluff,
Ark, made desperate effort at sui
eide at his room on Chotcau avenue.
TT
ear with razor, severing the
windpipe and then stabbed himself
twice over the heart, and cut his left
wrist in two places
A letter was found in which he said
he was tired of living. and stating that
drink and dependency were response
BILE for his act.
Lewis is at the city hospital, but
there is no chance for his recovery.
MRS. TAYLOR ACQUITTED.