The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-16

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return to her home, and Mrs. Noeser again
pleaded with her to remain Shortly after
Z O'Clock in~the morning Miss Young told
Mrs, Nosser that she was completely ex-
hausted and must lie down. Mrs. Noeser
arranged the bed in the front room, and
the young woman got into 1t after removing
her skirt, waist and shoes.
Mrs. Nosser says she herself didn't sleep
a wink during the night. Occasionally
she lay down beside Miss Young between
taking peeps at her husband, who, to all
appearances, was resting easily on the
couch in the adjoining room.
Shortly after s o'clock in the morning,
Mrs. Nosser says, abe went to throw cold
water on her face as sho was feeling very
much exhausted. Hardly had she stepped
into the bathroom when she heard the holt
lock snap on the door, which led directly
from the room in which she had left her
husband apparently asleep. She -sprang
to the door and grasped the knob. IT
wouldn't yield; the lock had been turned
from the other side.
She rushed frantically to the other door
which leads from the bathroom into the
private hull of the apartment This too
was locked from the outside. While Mrs.
Eosser was struggling at the knob, she
heard a Inulfled shot. A few moments
elapsed and she heard a second one, more
distinct than the first.
The frantic woman at first supposed
when she found herself a prisoner in the
bathroom that her husband and the young
woman had planned a clever escape and
that the denunciation by Miss Young was
all part OF a game.
The two shots told her what had really
happened. She beat and pounded on the
door leading to the private hall at he same
seemed to her hours, but 1t was really less
than five minutes, before Bertha Murphy,
the chambermaid, opened the door leading
to the hall with her pass key.
Mrs. Nosser rushed into the first room.
She saw her husband stretched on the floor,
with blood flowing from q wound i'll his
right temple. Rushing into the front rooml
she saw blood trucking from the left sideo Of
the young woman's head over the bed. -,
Mrs: Nosser tainted. The chambermaid
spread the alarm. A policeman sum;
that both Nosser and the young woman had
died almost instantly.
1t was some time before Mrs. Nosser
could be Gained sufficiently to tell any
coherent story of the affair. Coroner's
Mannion got her story from her ~piecemeal,
and finally had her taken to the West Thlr-
tieth street station. house.
Miss Young's sister, Mrs. Morrison, was
notified at the Baltimore. She Identified
the womanIs body She said her real name
New Orleans about two years ago to go on
/ the stage. Mrs. Morrison admitted that
the dead woman had been married and di-
voroed, but refused to go into details.
On the body of the dead woman were
found diamonds and jewelry amounting in
value to about 10000. Five large diamond
rings were on her fingers and in a little
chamois bag suspended about her neck,
were a diamond necklace and q diamond
brooch. The letter that Mrs. Nosser had
sent to her was found crumpled up in her
handbag. which contained numerous little
trinkets and $3.50. Mrs. Morrison said
that some time after her sister left her home
the night previous, she received a tele-
phone message from her as follows:
Il am at the Pierrepont with friends, and
We are having a pretty lively time
DR.. Weston said that Miss Young was
slain while she was sleeping soundly. The
revolver had been placed very close to her
head. The revolver was, of .3s. calibre
He was stretched out on the floor in front
of a mantelpiece and almost up against
the door leading to the bathroom.
1t was about ? o'clock before Coroner
Acritelli arrived at the Tenderloin police
station and had Mrs. Nosser brought be-
posture to a great extent and was able to
tell q straight story to the Coroner. He
saw no reason for holding her and ordered
her released. A search of the apartments
revealed nothing to indicate that the dead
man had any money. There were, how
ever, lots of overdue notes, bills from stores,
restaurants and hotels and dunning missives.
Mrs. Nosser told the Coroner that she
didn't know what she would do. She said
she had no funds, but would find friends
who she felt confident would come to her
aid. After packing mp a few belongings
at the apartment she went uptown TO the
home OF q friend. The two bodies were
removed to an undertaking establishment,
Nosser was only 80 years old and had a
host of acquaintances along broadway;
At the Nendome Hotel, where he lived
ND to three months ago, genuine grief was
expressed among the men with whom he
used to associate. Nosser was in the hotel
on Tuesday. According to those who saw
him he looked like a man who was about
to die. and after he had left many remarks
were passed about his emaciated appear
ance.
According to the crowd that freGuented
Honest John Kelly's gambling house
They say he often said that he had beer
commanded to play before the King Of
Belgium and received some sort of medal
or Certificate Of royal appreciation, II was
said that he came OF a very good family
in R~russels and was well educated.