The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-05
Secret Marriage Believed to Be
at Bottom of Revolving
Double Tragedy.
WEALTHY WIDOW AND
HER son FOUND DEAD
Woman Was Shot and Young
Man Ended Life by In
haling Gas.

NEW YORK, Nov. 4.-The revelation
by son TO his mother Of secret mar
riage aud parental refusal to be rec
onciled to it, is believed TO have been
the impelling cause Of a double tragedy
i'll :; large uptown apartment house here
today. The victims were Mrs. Rebecca
Veit, wealthy widow, and her only
son, i. Nelson Veit. Wall street bro
kcr, the circumstances of the affair IN
dicating that the mother was shot by
the son and that the latter then took
his own life by inhaling Illuminating
gas. The bodies OF both were discov.
cred today Mrs. Veit lay dead in her
bed from bullet wounds in her head
and body, and bcr son was found on
the floor of the bathroom In his moth
er's apartment, lifeless from asphyXia-
ton. An aunt of the suicide, Miss Anna
Vcit, discovered the bodies when she
sought TO awaken Mrs. Veit. in whose
apartment she had spent the night.
j. Nelson Veit, who was but twenty
apartments last night and dined with
her and Miss Anna Veit. Miss Veit
said today that Veit used the telephone
60 talk to some one in the city during
the evening and finally left 10 watch
the election returns.
Return of Slayer Unseen.
Tho two women talked together for
some time afterward and then retired,
each In separate rooms. Veit evidently
returned 10 the apartment some time
during the night, but no one has been
found who saw him enter Miss Veit
slept undisturbed. and the fact of the
murder and suicide was not learned un-
til several hours after the double trag-
edy had occurred. The police made the
discovery today that Veit, who was
supposed to be single. was married Sc
cretly in October Of last year. His
mother, who spent several months each
year in Europe, had only recently re-
turned from France. and the coroner s
theory is that her discovery of her son IS
marriage precipitated quarrel between
them, eliminating in the tragedy.
Late today the police found Mrs. J.
Nelson Veit, widow of the dead man,
in another uptown apartment house,
where she had been living with Veit
Tor month past having been away
from New York much of the time since
her marriage with Veit in October,
1907. Mrs. Feit said that she had not
met her husbands mother and did not
know whether or not the mother was
ever told of the marriage. Her husband,
she said, left early last night and tele.
phoped 10 her about 10:30 o'clock that
he would be home in half an hour. She
did not hear from him again, she said
Victims Well Known.
The dead woman was the widow of
the late Felix Veit, a wealthy broker
and senior member Of the firm OF yeit.
Lyon & Co, well known a few years
ago in Wall street.
After the fathers death j. Nelson
Neit succeeded to the management of
the trm. but the firm was broken up
later and J. Nelson Veit went into the
brokerage business for himself. Mrs.
Neit, the mother. had a fortune of her
own and maintained n luxurious apart
ment in this city, and usually spent the
summer IN France, where she had n
chateau. Mrs. Neit said the mother and
son had always been very much de-
voted to each other.