The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-16
GAMBLERS FINAL PERFDY.
FETGNS SLEEP TO ACCOMPLISH
MURDER AND SUICIDE.
Locks wife I'm Bathroom While He Shoots
Her Rival. whom He Had Deceived and
Wronged, and HlmSelf-WOmen Had
Just saved His Life-Plea for q Husband

NEOnROuI hAu llIIhNi III hNNA
Just saved His LIfe-Pien for a Husband
August Louis Nosser, q Tenderloin gam
bier, ended a wretched career in shocking
fashion yesterday morning in the rooms
occupied by himself and his wife on the
sixth floor of the Pierrepont Apartment
Hotel at IS West Thirty-second street.
Noeser locked his wife in the bathroom,
shot Estelle Young, an actress whom he
had deceived and wronged, through the
head, killing her instantly, and then killed
himself with a second bullet.
Nosser wasn't a gambler when he mar
ried Eva Haines five years GO, He
was a young violinist, who had come here
from Belgium with the Endorsement Of a
king who had been charmed by his playing.
He made fairly good money playing with
,orohestras in this city, and he md his wife
were happy.
In the course of time Nosser developed
b passion for gambling, and this caused him
70 desert his violin, especially from a wage
earning point Of view. He became what
might be termed q successful gambler and
soon had a well patronized poker club on
one of the sid streets OF the Tenderloin.
Next he became the manager Of the
Petroleum Club, a card playing establish
ment on West Forty-flrst street, just adj
joining the place of Honest John Kelly. 1t
was always supposed that Kelly was the
real owner Of the club that Nosser super
intended, and the place was used as an adj
junct to the bigger gambling house next
door. After a while Nosser blossomed out
as the proprietor of the Wall Street Club, a
poker joint at 5 West Thirtieth street.
This was In January, 1908. The crowd
that frequented that place was made up
of q clustering set OF brokers and stock
exchange ~plungers. The activity Of the
polioe in time frightened of this trade
and Nosser found himself losing money.
His wife had never relished the idea of
bis being a professional gambling house
keeper, but she stuck to him, and he made
plenty Of money to make amends for the
distasteful manner in which he made it.
Nosser, however. vent from bad to
worse. Early In December he filed a petit
tion In voluntary bankruptcy, setting forth
liabilities Of SIS, 41O and assets consisting
Of q few suits of clothes and a gold watch
worth so. Most Of the money that he
owed was to gamblers and Nosser wasn't
harassed.
Mrs. Nosser, shortly after her husband
~snt into bankruptcy. was shocked TO
Oan tn at he was addicted to h Use OF
opium. Then she found out that he had
misstated his assets, or at least his means
Of acquiring funds, and was lavishing
money on another. They had left the
Hotel Vendome in December because
taken apartments in the Pierrepont. Nosser
L.-kzl LlnazeIp f.o,tl, A. lat h.
spent only about every other night at home
Mrs. Nosser learned lately that he was
devoting himself to Estelle Young, who
was once a chorus girl in the Wizard of o.
company and who lived with her sister.
Mrs. Ida Morrison, in the Baltimore, at
2l9 West Thirty-fourth street. On Wednes-
day Mrs. Nosser heard that her husband
was planning to sail for Europe in a short
time and that be had promised to take
the other woman with him.
Late Wednesday afternoon she wrote a
letter to Estelle Young and sent it by mes
senge to the young woman. She told
the messenger to get an answer, but he
was told that Miss Young was not at home.
The boy returned with this information to
Mrs. Nosser.
This was the letter which Mrs. Nosser
wrote:
MISS E. YoU O: Pardon me for taking g
the liberty Of writing to you. | write you to
ask as an act OF Justice to give Louis back to
me. You have made his life miserable for
the past six weeks. and if l thought for one
moment that you were sincere | would not
hesitate to leave him with you. as his happi-
ness Is more to me than anything else in the
world.
have surmlsed for a long time the state or
affairs between Louis and you. but have kept
silent, thinking IT. was only a passing fancy
on his part. and that by having patience
] could call him back to me through my
undyine love for him. What l have suffered
no one will ever know. and | have been faith
full and dutiful through il all. and would be
perfectly willing TO make any sacrifice in
the world to have him with me, as / once had
him.
would be satisfied to nave him give you
everything in regards to money that he has,
as l will be thoroughly happy to have him
with me without a dollar. 1t Is for himself
alone that | love him. and you will be doing
a great act of charity by relieving him from
this awful bondage.
I have been instigated In communicating
with you at this time in order 10 interrupt
Louis's proposed trip to Europe. of which
j have been fully informed.
I await an immediate reply from you by
bearer stating your honest decision In this
matter. Kindly say nothing of this to Louis
and oblige. Yours, EVA NossER,
Miss Young, a tall blonde young woman
rs years old, didn't show any great feeling
when she had finished reading the note
which was handed to her on her return home.
Turning to her sister, she remarked calmly:
Il have a message to deliver nearby and
will be back presently"
Walking into her room she picked up a
rawhide dog whip and hiding it beneath
her fur jacket the made for the Pierrepont.
When she entered the Nosser apartments
there was a bitter scene. She changed her
mind about welding the whip, and seating
herself in a chair began a denunciation OF
the man who had ~wronged her and an appeal
to the heartbroken wife for forgiveness.
She stated positively that up to the time of
receiving the letter she was in ignorance of
the fact tina Nosser had a wife.
She told Mrs. Nosser that she met Nosser
nearly two years ago. and he had lavished
money on her and rrofcsSed his love. He
had pursued her with his attentions, she
said, and at last deceived her with the pre-
tence that he was Strengthening out his
affairs and would marry her and take her
with him to Europe. Their intimacy only
extended over the last two months, she said.
During this recital Nosser walked up and
down the floor like a mad man. Finally he
rushed from the room, and a few minutes
later the two women found him stretched
out on the floor of the bath room with a
drained laudanum bottle by his side.