Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-11-19
DEATH HER LAST RESULT.
Young Woman Shoots Herself While
in an Attorneys Office


BROKEN hearted, unfortunate In love
and in law, Sine Nelson fatally shot
herself in the left SIDE intitcting q
fatal wound, while In the office ot Rob
ert Redtield, an attorney, 1244 Unity
building, Chicago, Oct. 20, A minute
before she had uttered words OF for
g,reness for the man who had wronged
her and wished him we'll Half an
hour previously Miss Nelson, appar-
emly in low spirits, had come to CON
suit Mr., Redheld, As she sat In his
office, an inner NOM in the suite occu-
ped by William c, Assay, John +.
Glare, Theo. +. Berry and Otto A.
nrcier, she talked Of her unreQuited
love and her wrongs. ShN grew faint
and MIR, Redhed went into another
r,om to set her drink Of water. In
his absence she fired the shot and when
tho startled attorney hurried back into
his office he found her lying on tho
floor bleeding from u wound just be-
low tho heart and caspug n S2-caliber
revolver In her hand,
A pathetic love story and q fruitless
law suit. covering four years, were tho
prlndes to the woman's attempt ON
her own life. In 1892 Sinc Nelson,
then only recently In this country
from her native Denmark, was u do
mestic In the house OF Mrs johnson.
lIalstod street and Austin avenue,
There SHE met and fell in love with ".
w. Aylesworth. an engineer on tho
Chicago and Northwestern railroad.
For two years, II Is said, they woro
lovers and then Aylcsworth forsook
her,
She told her story to otto a, Droier.
the Danish consul, saying AylCsworth
had promised to marry her, Mr.
nreicr introduced her 60 Attorney
Redneld. and suit was commenced In
the circuit court against tho engineer
for ST. 1000 damages for breach Of prom
lao OF mawage, On March Is, 1895, n
jury In Judge naliers court awarded
her Il verdict for tho amount asked.
Nut the defendant secured u new trial.
and in this, also tried before Judge
Baker last May, Mas Nelson was
given II verdict for emily $3.50
In both trials the woman was tho
only Witness for die prosecution. On
the second trial she testified that
Aylesworh had dragged her In their
early acquaintance, and admittcd that
In not dlsclo9lng this before abe had
tried to shield the man she still loved.
She was heart broken over the second
verdict. but mid she felt badly only be-
cause her chance to force Aylesworth
to marry her was lossoncd
Since that time Miss Nelson has
made no attempt to collect the iury's
award Sho has been constant via
itor to Redneld'a ONCE has insisted on
his appealing the case and oven con-
suited other attorneys for tho purpose
Of further pressing the suit, Sho
seemed not to want money. though sho
was poor, but to secure from Aylcs-
worth fulnllment of hls promises,
Yesterday afternoon Attorney Rod
field noticed that she was moro
Respondent than over. she spoke Of
her love for Aylesworth and the last
words she said TO him were;
Tell my boy that forgive him"
Mr.. Redheld thought of her words
while he was In the outer ONCE, and
was emorking TO John r., Clare. who
WAS the only other person In the suite,
that he feared Miss NELSON was con-
tomplating suicide, While he was
speaking the report OF the revolver
rng out. and he and Mr.. Clare, when
they entered tho Office, gnzcd on u
tragedy.