The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-11-30
Leonard +. ROos's Wife FOrcib!y
Kept Out of the House by a
Deputy Sheriff.
POLICE ARE MUCH EXERCISED.
Young Woman Who Appears to
Have Been in Charge of House
hold Will Be Asked to Make
Complete Explanations.
SPECIAL.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
New York, Nov. 29.-Because of its re-
semblance In some particulars to the Ia
nous Rice murder. on account of which
Albert I. Patrick Is In prison under a SEN
tence of death. three departments of the
City Government were engaged to-day. In
the death of Leonard f. Roos. at his home,
No. LAG East Forty-seventh street. after mis-
wife had been forbidden the house and II
friend OF the dead man., Miss Ellen Long,
was in charge OF the domestic affairs.
No further arrests were made in connec-
ton with the affair, hut Michael Pompini,
the Italian Deputy Sheriff who so fercely
resisted the policemen when they broke in
the door of the house on Friday in order
ha nd was held for further examination to-
morrow in the Yorkville Police Court. -.
Coroner Jackson announces that he Will
hold an inquest early this week and Will
insist upon Miss Long making a complete
statement TO him of her connection with
the case. Mrs. Roos demands a tnqro9gn
investigation on the part of the authorizes
and her attorneys hint at later ana starting
developments.
Gay he was asked why he DID not admit
Mrs. Roos. The prisoner replied that he did
net know whether she was the mans wire
Pompini demanded an adjournment and
examination. When the Magistrate told
him he had no right to {, {, exclude ell s;, the ;, y w Y ,%s
right of a Deputy sheriff: He said Rooss
property was worth 100000. The case was
adjourned untll NlpTtdy Uloi Iiu6 aiu cHA
PM was held in 500 bail.
The order which Pomp!ni showed pur-
ported to come from Mr.. Roos and was as
follows:
II hereby authorize NJ. Pompini to remain
in possession of my house, No. 146 East
Fcrty-seventh street. and to allow no one
to enter without my permission. ,oo,
(Signed) IL. r. ROOS.
October %. 1902"
handwriting from the signature. Pomplni.
after the ar~raignment, made a statement,
In which he said:
and stayed at home on Monday and Tues
day. Wednesday morning he left the house
VERY early; and ! did not know sso d6 ne was t on5
him he should not go out when he was i'll;
and he replied: :! am worrying SO much l
can't stay In bed
He then came in. ate a little breakfast
and went to his room. About noon he lay
down. as he felt very weak. In the even
Bogert, at No. 1T East Forty-seventh
street. Doctor Bogert prescribed some
medicine. which l was to give him every
full of water. l stayed all night with him.
H did not rest or sleep. and l saw he
was getting worse. ] called on Doctor Bo-
CERT again at 5 O'Clock in the morning. and
he gave me three capsulese, and said to
give one every two hours: IL he slept after
the first one to give no more. gave Mr.;
Roos. one and he slept quietly. / continued
to give him other medicine. however. at
regular intervals.
AFTER some hours MT. ROoS started 10
tremble violently and after a time he said:
Here. l want you tc keep that woman
and her son away from here. ! don't want
more in this world.
Il told him l would keen a careful watch.
On. Thursday. afternoon he shook awfully
and / had to keep him in bed, as he wanted
to get up. early. l held him down. as the
doctor said he must stay In bed. and a
o'clock it was medicine time again and I
was going TO give 1t when he died in my
arms.
Mrs Roos's son. against whom Mr.. Roos
objected. was a son of a previous mar
rage of Mrs. Roos. Mr.. Roos was beaten
suspicion against somebody. but he would