The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-16
DID IT FOR LOVE,
Willie Reich, Aged l6, Shoots
Himself Today.
Driven Away From 10 Year Old
Sweetheart.
HIS HEART BROKEN.
Wrote Note to Mother Telling Of
His Trouble.
Then Sat Down on Floor and
Used Shot Gun.
us HEART BROKEN.

'75 minutes of 10 Topeka Kansas April
16-19O6.
Hear Mother
II have had all the truble I care to
have and as my end IS close VIII Ay
good bve TO YOU and all my Brothers
and friends kiss them all good bye and
my sister for I am broken hearted III
for one girl and that is why 1 have done
what 7 have and the girl is no other
than Cecilia Newbold.
II will again say good bye and kisses
70 all will close Your son
WILLIE REICH.
Il am in peace now.
After writing this note and lying
down on the floor of his bedroom, Willie
Reich. aged 16. shot himself with shot
gun. the charge tearing an inch-~ide
hole through his heart His mother,
" was out of the house and did not
hear the shot. came into the room TO
look for the boy at 11:50, and found her
son dead.
The girl mentioned in the note, which
was found beside the body of the boy,
is Cecilia Newbold daughter of A. V.
Newbold who lives at "A Kaw avenue,
one of me new streets east of the Santa
F'e shops. The boy who committed sui
eide lived with his father Henry Reich,
a Santa F'e shop man. of 119 North Lake
II is evident that the boy had been
contemplating suicide for some time be-
fore he accomplished his purpose An
elder brother. who slept with him, rose
earlv and went to work When found
after death the boy was dressed only IN
his underclOthing. He was lying on two
pillows in the center Of his room, with
the note beside him. and his single
barrel No. Il shotgun lying across his
body. The shot centered his heart, and
death must have been instantaneous. It
was evident that he had cooked the pun,
placed the muzzle against his body and
pulled the trigger with his bare toe
Coroner H. H. Keith was called as
soon as the body was discovered He
found a plain case of suicide. and an
inquest may not be held.
The young girl aad hog kept COM
pauy" for some time, until NeWnolds-
father Of the girl. would not let Reicn
come to the house. For the past few
weeks the lovers have been exchang-
ing notes without the knowledge of the
girls father but without seeing each
other. The boys mother knew that he
received notes from some girl, and
seemed greatly pleased when he read
them.
The boy seemd to take his youthful
love affair very seriously. and since he
was barred from the Newbold home,
vas very Respondent The girl is only
Is years old.
NTr. 4. V. Newbold. father of Cecilia
Newbold the girl with whom the Reich
boy was in love, said today:
Il would not have known the boy if
I had seen him. He got acquainted
with my daughter through another
girl. who went to school with her. One
day I saw a book which this boy had
given to my girl It was one of those
cheap sensational novels. I asked
where she got it and she told me.
told her to send it back to him. and
that if he read that kind of literature
] didn't want her to have anything to
do with him. During the last few days
he has been trying to call her up by
telephone. but would not let her talk
to him. That is all I know about the
case I think the boy was deranged as
the result of reading bad literature if
the book I saw is sample of what he
read"