The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-20
Husband Spurns Wife Who Had
Been Faithless to Him.
She Commits Suicide in Front
of Their Home.
LIES IN BROILING sun
Was Afraid to Face Man She
Had WrOnged.
Had Been Away Three Days
With an Old Sweetheart.

Pittsburg, Pa, Aug. 2o-Rather than
face her husband after having been
away from him for three days in the
company of the man who was her
sweetheart before her marriage, Mrs
Jennie Anderson. 28 years old, the wife
of wealthy farmer. near Imperial
jumped from the buggy in which she
was returning home just as they reach
ed the gate heading to her home, bade
gOodby to her lover. pulled q revolver
from q package she carried and fired a
bullet into her breast. When her lover
reached her side she was struggling to
send another bullet into her BRAIN
Let me do it, Charlie" she weakly
cried. It's better for US all I've mad
my fun, and am willing to pay the cost.
Goodby Charlie.' Then the woman fell
unconscious.
Charles Sechler. her companion, hor-
rified by the womans crime, rushed TO
her home and told her husband of the
shooting. Anderson, suspecting the
truth, ordered him from the farm, AID
then returned to his work Sechler
drove madly to Imperial, in search of Il
physician. 1t was four hours later when
DR.. c. o. Van Sickle arrived at the
scene of the shooting. All that time
the woman had been lying in the road
in the boiling sun. A hasty examination
by the physician disclosed that she was
dead and he gave it as his opinion that
she had been dead for at least two
hours.
Mrs. Anderson had known Sechler be-
fore her marriage, and he had been one
of her beaux. She was remarkably
pretty young woman, and married An
derson, who is older than she, about Two
years ago. Sechler left Imperial when
she married, but returned about two
weeks ago. They met at the home of a
neighbor, and SINCE that time they have
been together almost constantly. An
derson warned his wife that She must
cease her association with Sechler, but
she paid no attention.
Wednesday Sechler took the woman
to Mcdonald. where the fremen's
convention and the county fair were
being held. For three days they were
together. The worhan's husband sus-
peeted where she had gones but did
not follow her.
Sechler drove Mrs. Anderson home
Saturday morning. She seemed to be
in good spirits during the drive, al
though she repeatedly clutched a
package which she carried, and which,
she explained, contained a. soiled shirt
waist When they reached the gate
leading to the farm house Mrs. An
derson jumped from the buggy, wav-
ing her hand to Sechler. No sooner
had she reached the ground than she
tore the wrapper from the package
and pulled out a revolver. Without a
word she pressed the muzzle against
her breast and fired.
Sechler was almost frantic when he
returned with the physician and found
the woman lying In the road dead,
with the sun beating down upon her
body Word was sent to the woman s
husband. informing him that she was
dead. but he refused to leave his work,
or to permit the body to be brought to
his home. and it was taken to home of
a neighbor- Anderson declares that he
will not care for the body. Sechler
was detained by the coroner, although
there is nc charge against him, and
there IS every reason to believe that
the story that he tells is true.
Sechler is about 80 years old.