The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-03-16
Then New York Man Took
Own Life With Bullet
LOCKED WIFE IN BATHROOM
Louis Nosser, Race Track Man, Shoots
EsteIle Young, an Actress and
Friend, While She Was Visit
ing at the Nossers.

New York, March 16.--Mrs. Louis
Noser, wife of the bookmaker who kill
ed Estella Reynolds, or Estella Young,
as she was generally known in theatrical
circles, and then killed himself in his
apartments in the Hotel Pierrepont, at
Broadway and Thirty second streets,
yesterday, while Mrs Nosser was locked
in the bathroom, was released from GUS
tody of the police in the afternoon by
order OF Coroner Acritelli.
Following her release it developed
that she had written to Miss Young,
begging her to give up Nosser, and that
the actress had gone to the apartments
in the Pierrepont armed with horse
whip and determined to punish the book
maker.
In many ways the shocking murder
and suicide parallels the Caesar Young
tragedy, in which Nan Patterson was
concerned. The man was racing man,
the woman was an actress, and the
wronged wife had written to the woman
begging her to restore her husband.
The letter written by Mrs. Nosser fol
lows:
My Dear Miss Young Pardon me
for taking the liberty OF writing to
YOU. | write 70 ask You, as an act OF
Justice, TO give Louis back ton You
have made his life absolutely miser
able for the past six weeks. If |
thought You were absolutely sincere
/ would not hesitate to leave him
to you. In view Of tho ciTcumstan.
h., 4 nsb az
of charity, to relieve him from his
awful bondage. know of the pro-
posed European trip. ! write this to
again ask you to give Louis up and
TO interrupt your trend Of thought
] await an immediate reply from
you and want your honest decision.
Say nothing of this to Louis.
EVA NOSSER.
The tragedy followed an attempt
made by Nosser Wednesday night to
commit suicide after a quarrel with his
wife over his attentions 70 Miss Young.
Tie latter was in their apartment
when he swallowed quantity of laud-
anum. and aided his wife in her battle
to save his life. The two women walk
ed him up and down the private hall
of the apartment half the night, giving
him stimulants and medicine before they
succeeded in arousing him from the
stupor into which the poison had thrown
him.
Miss Young resided with her sister,
Gertrude, and another girl in an eight
room apartment I'M the West Thirty
fourth street house. Nosser was a con
slant visitor at her home. and it was
his wife's jealousy OF his attentions to
the actress that precipitated the quarrel
and the tragedy Yesterday.
When Mrs. Nosscr went into the
bathroom, Nosser at once arose from the
couch walked ocver and turned the key
in the bathroom door. Then he walked
over to Miss Young and said
There * no use for you and me 10
live any longer The best thing | can
10 j. "a kin Us both"
Miss Young was terrified, and begged
Nosser not 60 shoot.
Don't do that" she pleaded.
An instant later the frantic wife, lock-
ed in the bathroom, heard the report of
a revolver. Miss Young WIS shot through
the temple.
Nosser walked back into the front
room, stretched himself on the couch
and sent a bullet through his own right
temple He must have died instantly.