Bisbee daily review., 1907-03-12
CHICAGO GIRL DEAD:
 A MYSTERY DEVELOPS
Police Wonder How a asBFeach of Promise Suit Enters
 Into the Case.

CHICAGO. March 11.-Dfd a $25,0 900 breach of promise suit last summer have anything to do with the death by asphyxiation of Miss Olive Sells, 20 years old. who was found dead yester- day morning in a gas-filled room at 2552 Prairie avenue, where she had lodged for some months?
 This is the problem the police were asking last night, and to which they had found no answer
 At the coroner's inquest an open yer dict was returned. the jury declining to state whether or not in their opin. ion Miss Sells had met death by her own act or through accident. If she died by her own act-as the police strongly believe-then it is suspected her love affairs, of which a novel breach of promise suit was a part, were moving cause in the tragedy.
 Samuel Weller, a mining broker, with offices at 167 Dearborn. street and with bachelor apartments at the Palos, 215 ThirtY-first street, was the man in the breach of promise suit.
 ar WelleT's name also figured prom inently in connection with Miss Sells love affairs when the police began in, auiry into the girls death yesterday. The police were said to have letters, signed by Mir. Weller. which might furnish a suicide motive.
 Boomers at the Prairie Avenue house state that Mir. Weller had been an intimate friend of Miss Sells even since the famous breach of promise, and that he often has called her by telephone and taken her to places of amusement At the inquest MT. Weii- CT denied that he was engaged to Miss Sells.
 The last occasion on which the love affairs of Miss Sells and Mir. Weller came to the notice of the public was on Aug 3 last, when tue breach of promise suit appeared on the court records. The suit was filed shortly after o'clock. and shortly after , o'clock on the same day Miss Sells had forgiven Mir. Weller and announc- ed that she would withdraw the suit the next morning.
 'T was told things about Mir. Weller which I believed" said Miss Sells that night when interviewed, "but as soon as asked him about them he explain ed the whole matter. I am very sorry I allowed the suit to be brought. and will withdraw it at once"
 Don't worry about it. little girl, said Mir. Weller.
 It was declared by Miss Sells attor. neys at that time that Mir. Weller had a monthly income of $1,000.
 The police are inclined to the belief 1 that another misunderstanding oecurr ed recently between the girl and Mir, | Weller.
 Miss Sells death was discovered through Milton 4. Mix and Walter C. Farnum, medical students. They were passing the girls room when they smelled gas. They notified John Ma lone. another roomer, and the three forced an entrance to Miss Sells room through a window, the door being locked.
 On entering the room the gas fumes almost overcame them, the valve of g small gas stove being open. They finally reached the girl. who was lying in her bed. They tried to revive her but failed, and then summoned Dr. J s. Perekhan. 2600 Indiana street. who said the girl had been dead two ol three hours. s \ MT. Weller in 5estifying at the in
 quest, stated that he had known Mis-
 Sells for three years, first meeting he
 at her home in Charleston, III. He re
 newed the acquaintance some months
 later when she came to Chicago. H.
 said she had a sister named Sethen living in AJchison, Kan,
 It developed at the inquest that Mis- - Sells possessed considerable quantit of jewelry, and that part of it-twI |, rings-had been stolen from her room The police have been unable to locat , the missing articles. A bank boOl calling for S250 was found in Nils
 Sells room, as well as stock in west
 ern mining company with which Nil l Weller is said to he connected.