The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-06-11
Woman Supposed to Have Been an
Actress Who Played Under the
Name of .'Rose ViOIette."
MAN WAS PROBABLY JEALOUS
son OF WEALTHY CIGAR MANU-
FACTURER OF NEW YORK,
Who Married Another Actress When
Only Seventeen Years OId-His
Friends Not Surprised.

CHICAGO, June 10.-Side by side, each
with a bullet wound in the temple, the dead
bodies of L. Hartman and his wife were
found in their bed at the Great Northern
Hotel this evening. The room showed no
evidence of struggle; both lifeess forms
were composed. the covering of the bed
we'll tucked about them, but the revolver
clutched in the right hand of the husband
told the story of the double tragedy.
OF the pair that courted death so success
fully nothing is known by the managers of
the hotel beyond report that the man has
wealthy connections in New York, and that
the woman apparently was once an actress
under the stage name of Rose Violette.
From information given by a woman who
inquired for them this morning 1t is sup
posed the case is one of a runaway mar
riage, with death as the result of despond-
ency over the obduracy of an unforgiving
father.
Hartman and his wife registered at the
hotel June Q, giving their address New
York. Both were stylishly dressed and ap-
peared to be persons of means. They did
not mingle with the other guests and spent
most of the time in their rooms They were
reserved in manner, but from the evidences
of affection they displayed it was surmised
by attaches of the hotel that they were on
their wedding trip. Early Sunday night
they retired to their apartments and
nothing was seen of them until this even
ing. when they were found dead in bed. The
cframbermaid tried to get in the room in the
forenoon but was unable to do So Later in
the day she repeated the attempt with the
same result. Repeated knockings failed
10 obtain an answer, and, the hotel office
being notified, the room was broken into
tonight and the discovery was made of the
double tragedy.
Before leaving the woman who called this
morning said that Hartman was the son of
a wealthy New Yorker and that he had
formed an attachment that had dspeased
his father. A clandestipe marriage was fol-
lowed by departure Cor Chicago without
the knowledge of the angry parent. A
reconciliation was being effected by friends
and she charged Manager Roth not to lend
the man money, as he would be taken care
OF financially by the elder Hartman. The
woman gave no name, and her identity is
as great a mystery to the hotel officials as
the tragedy itself.
Among the effects nothing was found
that would result in further Identification.
On card case belonging to the woman
were engraved the words Rose Violette"
and from the discovery of an actress
makeup in trunk it is supposed the wcm-
an has been connected with the stage
card also indicated that she had been a
member of the Duchess" company From
the position OF the woman's body il is
thought by the physicians that she was
killed while asleep by her husband.
The unknown caller told Manager Roth
that the young man had drawn on his
father through a Chicago bank last week,
and 1t is thought this fact afforded the
means from which the runaway couple
were located by their friends. Hartman
was apparently between twenty-eght and
thirty years of age. His complexion was
sallow, his hair dark. height medium The
woman was about twenty-five years of age
and was small, with the complexion of a
blonde.
AT midnight ii was learned that the dead
woman was Rose lie Sebre. a variety
actress. The father of the dead man is
said to be wealthy tobacco dealer in bus-
ness In New York city.