The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-03
SUICIDE, MAYBE MURDERER
HERTB KILLS HIMSELF AFTER
gHOOTINQ MS MISTleEg6.

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and works of art, shot and perhaps fatally
wounded Rosina Drolct in tho hall at 371 West
Hath street yesterday morning about 10 O'Clock.
Immediately after shooting the woman Herv6
put the pistol to his own head and fred q shot
OF the effects of which he died In a fcw minutes.
Herv6 was a native Of Marsoillos. France. He
camo to this country during the first year
Of tho civil war and enlisted in the COM
pany Of q New York regiment of which
Deputy Chief Of Police Cortright was
Captain. He served all through tho war
as a private. and, at It's close, was honorably dis
charged. Then he returned to this city and.
after learning tho ways Of Wall street in the
Office of the late August Belmont, no became q
banker and broker on his own account. In Wal
street he lost q moderate fortune which no had
inherited from his father.
Having always had q fondness for art, and
having boon an art student for a time In Paris.
Herv6 driftod into buying and selling pictures
and dealing in bric-a-brac. Until two years ago,
no had for some time an Office in tho
Decker building. He was married, and
lived with his wife and stepson at
151 East Seventy-second street, whore. whom he
gave up his Office in the Decker building. he
transacted all Of his business. Tho story Of
what led up TO tho tragedy Of yesterday was
told by Mrs. Hcrve to q SUN reporter last night.
She said
MY husband has been q dealer In fno paint
ings and bric-a.brao ever since no left
Wall street. I am told that he was
considered an art connoisseur. However that
may DO. I know that he did q large bust
ness. Four years ago. when entering a Third
avenue elevated train. he met for the first time
Rosina Drolet, a married woman. who at that
time carried on q dressmaking business in Sew
enty-fourth street, between Third and Lexington
avenues. She lived with her husband, who was
q painter by trade.
Mrs. Drolot was accompanied by another
woman. As the two women entered the car
my husband called tho attention Of Mrs.
Drolet's companion to tho fact that Mrs.
Drolet was about to drop something FROM
her dress skirt pocket. Hearing this. Mrs.
Drolet made some remark In French. That was
the beginning of the acquaintance which de-
veloped into an intrigue between tho woman
and my husband, and which ruined his life and
mino.
mot long after tho woman met my husband
her husband left her. The woman then moved
into an apartment at Thirty. fourth street
and Third avenue, where she lived with
her sister and brother in : law, MIR. and
Mrs. Henry @. Gauthier. From papers left
by my husband. I know that he paid the rent OF
the apartment and contributed substantially to
the support OF all the occupants. So great was
his infatuation for the woman that, at any hour
OF the day or night that she sent for him. he
In 1895 my husband bought an interest in
the Enropean rights of the kinetescope. and
sent Mrs. Drolet TO Europe TO look out for the
Bureau. and her. trip abroad Of six months
think. at the Hotel Martin. About q year ago
t~y-eighth street. under, the name Of Nine. Blu
reau: the rent Of which my husband paid. In
she sSsi sdded IL to Sh her income S"s aeF By letting iISp iod Gsfi "e''0
about a year age my husband told me every
and asked. yes even implored me-, TO do what I
ruined his life. sauandered his money. and had
made him q disgrace TO his friends and to his
"Iiookcd into the matter. found that all my
t MS1n ! Se nS' .sid HIM h' T Esrl s0i this . s SS9aEm NJ r.;
which he got a loan Of 5000: I found that; In
s nsss. h of s eavd Pqis It nj to sss the T b1oist INTO %em his 0q HI
afterward redeemed the diamonds and gave them
to her. Learned Of thi. 5hroush bis confession on
diamonds, and I told him / ala. Then. Re said.
go to Mime Hyena Prols, Ah9 always called her
for them. She has told mo that, II you vii!
i finally eon,ented TO SEQ the woman: be-
s WSs, I thought .oM s.I s might t,t ssvS my ny h husband nd
for stealing them. When arraigned before
on june ! she said that she had pawned the
rings, and the Magistrate compelled her TO give
m nnd ' Mhe sisf / asked ih her for %f the o oGls 'H one she heK said
that her sister. Mrs. Gauthier, had the other
ring: / subsequently, got that ring from Mrs.
After that scene in court my husband saw
little Of the woman. Never a day passed but
eyes. and thank mo for the freedom I had
given 70 him. The last time saw my ,hus-
liz, had been restless most Of the night. About
8 o'clock he got up and dressed and naked me 10
that hour in the morning simply to take a walk
with him, and he said that he knew T. was IN.
ask a young man who Is living with US to &C,
"He was SO nervous and SO unstrung that,
after no went downstairs. I found II impossible
door s!0s open ny and shut I got up, w Went St' to
the window and pecred out through the shut.
front OF the house looking at my window. He
stood there for some time and then walked west
, %ISSon At ae simsss every sye osHsr l sfsp. {t hhss c at sss
he took ono final look backward and then hur.
What Herv6 did after leaving his home is set
Surgeon %''f Ramssy Of tho Ma Manhattan Hospital
| Nlrb. DTOltJ IOlu llh tuuJ DclWGBn hnu o
O'Clock yesterday morning she received a tele.
gram announcing that her sister. Mrs. Gauthier,
was dying and requesting her to como to the
Gauthler fiat. 27I West Hath street. imme.
dintoly. Tho telegram was signed Horny @.
GRuthter.
Continuing her statement. Mrs. Drolot, told
DR.. Ramsey that as soon as Rbe received the
telegram she did not stop even to change her
dress, but. going over to the Twenty ighths street
station OF the Sixth avenue elevated railway,
she got uptown as quickly as possible.
Getting off at the, station at 10th street, she
hurried down Eighth avenue to Hath street
and fastened to tho apartment house In which
her sister lives. which Is about midway between
Seventh and Eighth avenues. She entered the
froptdoor. she said, and had ono foot on the stops
the third floor. on the west side of tho house
when she. felt q hand upon her shoulder
Turning about she saw Herv6. To her, the
woman says. Herve said!
Twill you como back TO live with msf'
Her reply was:
mo. l will not"
Then" he replied, I'VE will not remain
: apart. / sent that telegram. and II you don't 60
!, back with mo l will kill you here"
To this Mrs. Drolet told DIR. Ramsey that shi
replied: