Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-08-21
HIMSELF
At NEWPORT
FOR LOVE
MISS MAY VAN fLEN, LEADER
IN THE SMART SET, DROVE
ROBERT REMINGTON TO sur
eide.

NEWPORT, r. l.. Aug ga pistol
Monday afternoon brought rest to the
tired brain and everlasting relief TO the
aching heart of Robert R. Remington, or
the New York firm of Remington Bros. 1t
was fired because Miss May Van Allen
GOODNESS made the brilliant Newport world
a barren and intolerable waste for him.
Miss Van Allen is the eldest daughter OF
James ]. Van Allen, the millionaire. she
is the granddaughter Of Mrs. William As
tor. In Viewpoints social gaieties for sew
eral seasons she has been leader
Remington and Miss Van Allen were en-
gagged for over a year. Their wedding
had been set for. this fall and all Newport
knew the day. Their romance has been
the subject of wide comment in New York
and other eastern cities for months. Per
haps the young mans comparatively
small fortune and his unbridled social
ambitions created additional interest IN
the affair At any rate society talked OF
it until last week when even this extra
ordinary interest was doubled by rumors
limiting that the engagement had been
broken of.
Remington denied the rumors. His de-
NAL was printed in the papers and created
a sensation among the intimate friends
of the Van Allen family who knew the
rumors of the broken engagement We're
true From that time Remington. once
a favorite figure in all Newport circles,
was coldly received. He drew away from
his former associates ana became silent
and morose-a lonely figure of detection
in the gayest circle in the world. People
began to believe him mentally unbalanced.
For the last few days his actions con-
frmed the suspicion, and he was watched.
Monday he walked into the club rooms
in his usual manner. Several men on the
wide piazza noticed him as he went
through the entrance and disappeared IN
the corridors.
Remington sought quiet corner in a
darkened room. There he drew pistol
from his pocket and placed the barrel
against the side of his forehead. The
report rang out through the club house.
The ball ploughed a furrow across his
forehead, but did not enter his head
Again the pistols muzzle, hot and smok-
ing now, was pressed to his forehead ana
again a ball ploughed its way over the
throbbing brow. this time ranging upward
and failing, like the first. to bring the
oblivion Remington sought.
The men on the porch rushed in about
this time They saw him stagger against
the wall and then straighten himself M
again He raised the smoking pistol be-
fore they could reach him, placed the
hot muzZle between his lips and pulled the
trigger for the third trial. At the sound OF
the muffed report Remirgtons body coli
lapsed and sank to the floor in heap.
When they reached him he was dead. The
third ball had plunged into the brain. The
pistol, a 3S-caliber weapon, lay smoking
a few feet away or the marble floor.
Ten minutes later Newport was ringing
with the sensation. Following so closely
upon the tragic death of the Fairs, who
were Newport favorites, it has cast pail
over the entire place. 1t is doubtful IL the
round of social gayeties which marked
the season win be resumed.