The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-10-04
REVENGE WAS
MURDER MOTIVE
PROSECUTION FOR NoN-sUPPoRT
INSPIRED MINNEAPOLIS
CRIME.
HUSBAND ATTEMPTS SUICIDE
FOUND IN MINNEAPOLIS HOTEL
WITH ALL THE GAS JETS
TURNED ON.
HUSBAND ATTEMPTS SUICIDE


Snatched from a suicides grave just
as his plan of selfdestruction was on
the point of fulfillment, Henry Suss-
man now is in the hands Of the Mil
neapolis police, who charge him with
having murdered his young wife as
she lay asleep in a room in the Glen
wood hotel in that city.
SusSman was found at 1870 o'clock
this morning in a bedroom of the
Nashville hotel. He was lying on the
bed and five gas jets in the room
were turned on to their fullest extent.
The man already was in a stupor, and
had he remained in the room but
short time longer his attempt at sui
eide would have been successful.
Revenge the Motive.
Revenge is now believed to have
been the passion that inspired the
murder of Mrs. Henry Sussman, the
woman found dead in one Of the
rooms at the Glenwood hotel, Mime
apols. on Wednesday afternoon.
Henry Sussman, the wOman's hus-
band, served a sentence of thirty-five
days at the Minneapolis workhouse
last spring on a charge of non-suppOrt
preferred against him by his wife.
The police now believe that it was in
retaliation for this punishment that
the young woman was killed.
The Sussmans have not lived to-
gether since the trial of the non sup
port case, and the testimony in the
trial showed that for some time before
their relations had not been entirely
amicable.
Husband Was Jealous.
The relatives of Mrs. Sussman say
that her husband has appeared to
harbor a grievance against her and
that they were rarely together with
out quarreling. 1t is known that Suss-
man was jealous of his wife and that
he reproached her at times because
of her refusal to live with him, but
the police are inclined to believe that
revenge for the non-support prOsecu-
ton was the motive for the crime
1t is said that at the time of the
trial SusSman made threats against
his wife that caused her father great
uneasiness, and that it was through
the influence Of Mr.. Messenger, the
father, that Mrs. Sussman remained
with her parents instead of returning
to her husband.
photograph of Henry Sussman
was identified yesterday by r. E.
Hitchcock, proprietor of the GlenwOod
hotel, as a likeness of the man who
was at his hotel Tuesday night with
the young woman afterward fOully
L ordered. Mr. Hitchcock is very sure
in his Identification. and Lis rescrip-
ton of the man at the hotel is said
to answer very closely to that of Suss-
man.
Rhinelander Suspect Freed
The Minneapolis police were mott
fed early Yesterday of the arrest of a
suspect at Rhinelander, Wis, and for
time they felt sure that their man
had been caught, but last evening this
was found to be a mistake. The sus-
pect was taken from a 500 train at
Rhinelander at 2 o'clock in the morn
ing.
The train had come from Ninneapo-
lis on the previous evening, and as
the man was greatly excited when
placed under arrest the Rhinelander
oolice were sure that he was Suss-
man.
1t was not until Detective Louis
Hanson Of Minneapolis arrived at
Rhinelander last night that the pris-
oner was found to be the wrong man.