Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-07-31
Young Man in Colorado Springs
Blows Out His Brains While
Coroner'S Jury Awaits His
Coming,
SECOND SUICIDE ADDS
TO GREWS0ME MYSTERY
Letters of Dead Man May In
vOIve Prominent Persons in.
Scandal Is Belief of the
Police.
iBy Morning Journal Special Leased Wire. !

IBy Morning journal Special Leased Wire.
Colorado Springs, Colo, July 80 -
Deep mystery still surrounds the
death OF Miss Laura Matthews the ac-
tress who is supposed to have COM
mitted suicide near Broadmoor sun
day morning, and the later attemI ted
suicide Of Amos r. Rumbaugh, giving
his address as Washington, d. c.
Late rumors are to The effect that
Rumbaugh is responsible for The
death of the young woman that he
accompanied her on the horseback
ride which terminated in her death.
and that when lonely spot was
reached he shot her His attempt on
his own life this afternoon together
with his evasion of the authorities
this morning when sought as a Wit
ness at the inquest linked with his in
fatuatlon for the girl, lend color to
This suspicion.
Rumbaughs death Is expected al
most hourly.
Two brief notes are al that explain
the rash act Of the young man. one
note addressed TO whom it may con-
Germ" read as follows:
ship my body to Mrs. J. H. Rum
baugh Mount Pleasant, Pa, West
moreland county. Notify the Travel
ers' lgSnranee company Of Hart sord.
Conn. and the f'raternal order OF n,a-
giles, OF Scottsdale. Pa. (Signed)
AMOS RICHARD RUMBAUGH. /"
The second note was addressed to
his mother. Mrs. J. II. Rumbaugh. at
the above address. Rumbaugh wrote
FanT n hsHfH-
There Is nothing for me to say why
/ did this awful deed. so lay my body
away To rest. l have about $3.50 on
my person You and Charlie settle
things up, Your son.
AMOS n. RUMBAUGH.'
Late tonight II was learned through
"A guest OF the Arcadia hotel, where
the Young woman was registered, that
Miss Matthews feared young RUM
baugh She is said to have told ac-
quaintances that she was afraid to go
back late at night to the hotel Tor rear
her adinirrt would blow hef praHls
out as she passed North Park.
Miss Tillie Green. who came mere
with Miss Matthews and who has act
ed i'm the capacity of nurse, is under
police surveillance pending the flnd-
inrs of the inquest held over the re-
mains OF the young woman which ~
to continue tomorrow morning. IL
SIN believed by the authorities int
she knows far more about the eircu
stances surrounding the tragic dea p
oft her charge than she has yet at-
mitted. Miss Green says that she
knows nothing of Coey's relations
with Miss Matthews. but intimated an
was not right with regard to Rum
baugh's suicide this afternoon MISS
Green had the following To say:
"Rumhaugh was desperately In love
with Laura He had previously told
me that he was engaged To marry her
that they would go east on their non
evmoon He did not know Coey but
seemed to take boyisn delight IN de-
scrihing how he would go to chicago
and parade his bride in front Of the
manufacturer When ! told
Rumhaugh that Laura had committed
suicide he seemed Ike one possessed +,
H. swore that he would go to chicago |
and Kill Coey. and his entire motlNe /
from that time until his suicide seem
ed 10 be that Of revenge on CoeY. ne I
killed himself through love OF the
girl"