The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-17
CALLED HOMELY.
KILLS HERSELF
Cruel Husband Drives His
Wife to Commit
Suicide.

NEW YORK. March 16.-"You are
getting hOmely. You are getting home
Iier, every day"
Frederick Rheinhard said this a the
supper table TO his wife. About them
were gathered the four children-Liz-
zie, the eldest. aged sixteen, and Tillie.
Agnes and 'Frieda. 1t was not the first
time the husband had told his wife that
the beauty which had charmed him
seventeen years ago was a thing of the
past. But to the patient. tired woman
sitting opposite him the words struck
deeper than they ever had before. She
had not been we'll recently. There were
times when an iron hand seemed to
clutch at her breast and she could not
breathe. The doctor had told her her
heart was affected.
After supper Rheinhard went out. He
had the habit of going out just after
supper. Lizzie, the little mother of th1
family, went out also. Then Mrs. Rhein-
hard called the remaining children to
her and sent them out to store to get
some milk. 1t was store that was
unnecessarily far away.
Quite alone at the little fiat at No. 50
Hudson street, HObOken, she sat for
while at the supper table, her face
buried in her hands. But she was not
crying. When she rose she walked
slowly into the middle room, the dark.
spent many sleepless night, and closing
both doors that communicated with
the dining and the room where the
children slept, she turned on the gas
and lay down,
One of the doors she locked. There
was no key to the other. so she pushed
a huge packing basket against it and
fastened IT to the door knob with d
long black tie of her husbands, which
she found near at hand. Then, tying
the basket to the waShStand, she lay
down. Twenty minutes later Rhein-
hard, coming up the stairs. met his
oldest daughter, Lizzie, in the hail. She
had just come in also. This is Lizzie's
account of how she found her mother:
I was coming up the stairs when
met my papa in the hall. 1 went first
and papa was just behind me in the
hall. When l opened the door there was
a smell of gas. l started to go in, but
papa said. Don't go in there Run for
a Doctor Then he went in and threw
open the windows. and burst open the
door into my mammals room, the door
that was tied with the necktte. He
found my mamma lying on the bed
When got back with the doctor he
said my mamma was still alive, but af-
ter awhile he said she was dead
1t was not the first time papa told
mamma she was getting homely. had
HtdIu MIN say II OFTEN. But my man.
ma was a very fine-looking woman
She was not feeling well, and I sup
pose it worried her. work in pock-
etboOk factory, but yesterday she look
ed so badly that l told her l would stay
home and help her. But she said I must
go to work. Then she sat and cried a
long time. She told me papa made her
feel very unhappy. She said she loved
him so much, but he had never loved
her. Papa cried all last night"
rs he at work nOw?" the reporter
asked.
oh. no; papa works over in New
York with an elevator company, b.t
now he has gone to collect mammaS
life insurance. Papa says mamma was
awful mean to die and leave US four
little children. But my mamma had
lots of trouble My two little sisters
are going to live with an aunt in Cam
den. Ttllie IS going with another aunt
l am going to work out. am sorry my
mamma is dead. She was an awful
good woman. Everybody said she was
the best woman in the house"