The Detroit times., 1909-05-25

MOREY.
Married only three weeks, but dis
couraged by his inability TO get con-
genial employment, and also depress-
ed by the shadow of parental opposi-
ton TO his marriage TO a handsome
Gentle woman, Maurice III. Resented,
70 years old. shot and killed himself
n room No. IS. OF the Griswold
house, Tuesday morning.
His bride. handsome brunette.
knew nothing OF the tragedy until
newspaper men broke the news TO her
in the rooming house at No. 95 Cass-
St. where the young couple had made
their home for the last two weeks,
while Rosenfcld tried in vain to find
employment in house furnishing
store. She was stunned by the news,
but showed remarkable fortitudee.
"Oh. This is awful! awful" she
repeated. over and over. How could
he do such a thing? What shall I do
now? Poor fellow. he was SO discour-
aged, and yet he tried to bear up
bravely. When lie went away this
morning to his first days work as a
salesman for the Royal Typewriter
Co.. he seemed cheerful, and yet
something seemed To tell me that all
was not right. ! mad an intuition that
he was going to do something awful.
like this"
Rosenfeld, fne looking young
man. mad reported for work at the
typewriter company. and seemed co
be in good spirits as he started out,
ostensibly for work, at about $3.50
| ~ hn
revolver and box OF cartridges. and
shortly before IL o'clock engaged a
room In the Girls void house, paying
for 1t in advance. revolver shot
attracted attaches of the hotel, who
found him lying ON the bed. stripped
OF all his clothing except his under
wear and socks, and with blood gush-
ing from his mouth. He had placed
the revolver In his mouth and fired Q
bullet through the roof OF his mouth
and into his brain County Physicians
Stapleton and Grimes, who examined
the body, decided that he died In
stantly.
Before taking his life, Resented had
had a shave and haircut. He had
shot himself in such way that no
trace of the wound was visible after
the county physicians had finished
their work.
And strangely enough. the heart
broken bride, after steeling herself to
bear the shock OF the terrible news
OF the suicide. and bearing the Ill
news with remarkable composure,
asked: where did he shoot himself!
| Is he terribly disfgured?" II was the
hysterical question OF bride. deeply
In love with her fine-looking husband,
and hardly realizing the truth.
He was discouraged" she said,
land his encouragement was added
to by the fact that he had not received
any word from home for long time.
He was Jewish, and am Gentle.
and his parents did not exactly like
that But they are splendid people.
We were married by minister In Chi
cago only three weeks ago"
| Rosenfeld's father. who, Mrs. Rosen-
field said. Is wealthy. is Michael Rosen-
field, OF No. 4336 Vincennes-ave., Chi
cago. The young bride was formerly
Miss Verna +. Hale. OF Oshkosh, Wis.
The last Lett. q 10 by Maurice
from his mother was dated May %.
and seemed 10 contradict the brides
statement that there was ill-feeling
over the marriage. The letter was ad-
dressed, Dear Children" and express
ed the hope that Maurice had found
position with the Weiueman broth
ers. probably referring to the propriet-
ors of the Peoples Quitting Co.
CHICAGO, May 25.-Nothing was
known today at the home OF Michael
Resented OF the suicide In Detroit
of Maurice Resented. bridegroom OF
three weeks. Ii was stated that let
ters had been received this morning
from both Resented and his bride and
that neither gave any inkling OF the
| impending tragedy