The sun., 1902-09-28
ACTOR SHOOTS HIS WIFE DEAD
LEARNED, HE SAYS. THAT SHE
WAS UNTRUE TO HIM.
Her Relatives Say She Was Faithless Before
AMI Intimate He Knew H-They Quar-.
relied Over y. =. Adams-Adams Falnis
anu Denies Rose Gives Himself Up.

Convinced that the woman To whom
he had been married for fourteen years
had been faithless to him and that she
loved another man, Harry Rose, stage
manager for Charles Frohmans There's
Many a Slip now at the Garricli Theatre
shot and killed her yesterday morning in
flt Of jealousy
After the shooting Rose walked calmly
10 a police station and surrendered himself
announcing that he had killed his wife
In statement made to Coroner Scholer
after the shooting. Rose named Samuel
+ Adams real estate broker at 1923 Broad
way, as the man Of whom he was jealous
He had learned of Adams's intimacy with
his wife. Rose said, and had caught him in
u trap he had set
He went To the Thirty-third street fiat
yesterday morning. after being away for
two nights and had breakfast with Mrs.
Rose. He told her of what he had dis
covered. there was scene and he Went
away
This was al $50 o'clock. He walked the
streets for an hour and returned to the fiat
This time she confessed. he said, that she
had been intimate with the man he sus-
pect ed, and told him that she no longer
loved him, Crazed by this admission, he
says he shot her dead.
Mr.. Adams, whose city home is at so
Madison avenue. was found at the New York
Athletic Club, one of several clubs to which
he belonged When told Of Roses alega-
tons he was SO shocked that he apparently
tainted After he recovered himself he
declared that Roses statements were false
and were made to Justify the crime.
IT'S lie," said Mr. Adams, -and Rose
is a cur. knew Mrs Rose and our relations
were entirely proper"
The only person who was in he fiat when
the tragedy occurred was colored servant
girl, named Ella Peterson. She said sh -
only heard few angry words, then the
shots, four in number, and then woman'S
scream
She rushed TO Mrs Roses room and found
her lying on he floor Of the narrow hallway
One bullet had struck the woman full in
the face. just above the mouth, another
lodged in her breast while two of the bullets
went wild 4 DR.. Feldstein. who lives a
few doors away, was summoned but the
woman was dead before he arrived.
She was dressed in street costume and
evidently had prepared 10 go out The
servant saws that after Rose came in the
visit
As soon as hc had killed his wife Rose
walked down the stairs 10 the street. Those
who met him did not notice anything pa
culiar or unusual IN his manner. He went
directly "a the 'Tanderloin station and coolly
put the revolver on the sergeants desk
Il have killed my wife" he said "and
want 10 give myself up.
The Teuderloin police were already
stirred mp over the murder in a Twenty
ninth street dive. The sergeant thought
Rose was crazy and told him 50. Rose
insisted tEat ho wanted to SEQ Capt. Sheehan.
He was ken into the capt aims room, where
he told the captain that he had killed his
wife because he had found another man
in her room This statement he changed
later
As the tragedy occurred in the West
Thirty-seventh street precinct, Capt.
Haughey was notified and two - his de-
tectives brought Rose 10 the West Thirty
seventh street station.
When Coloner Scholer got To the station
Rose spoke to him in very unconcerned
manner until he learned that he was talking
Ia the Coroner
DO YOU mean to say that my wife is
dcad?" he cried "She must be, or you
wouldn't he here" Then he collapsed and
fell in a faint that lasted for five minutes.
The Coroner had 10 revive him, Then he
said.
MY life is ended I'm done for"
Rose remained hysterical for some time
and kept repeating: My poor kid, my
poor kid have killed her When he had
become more composed Rose made this
statement TO the Coroner:
-My wife and ] had been married for
fourteen years She was on the stage
before | married her. Her stage name
was Lizzie Berger and she was daughter
of Mrs. j G. Proctor, who lives a. Ninth
avenue and Forty-frst street Her sister
is the wife Of Charles Zimmerman Of Nixon
& Zimmerman, the Philadelphia theatrical
managers.
"Some years ago met Samuel F. Adams
He is the man who betrayed me. He was
my friend and, foolishlv, ! brought him
To my house and introduced him TO my
wife He came often to see W. and We
often had him to dinner | regarded him
a. n true friend
A short time ago 7 suspected that his
relations with my wife were more inti-
mate than they should have been ! soon
got evidence that he had been calling on
her in my absence. Two nights ago ]
pretended TO leave town. As matter of
fact, ! stayed in the city and got evidence
that Adams stayed az my house.
This morning | returned to the house
My wife was AT breakfast ! asked her
IL she had been true TO me. ! told her
everything | had learned and she denied
il all ] put my hand in my pocket TO take
out a cigarette case. She jumped from
the table and ran sore aiming To the kitchen.