The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-05-26

Married only three weeks. but dis.
couragsd by his inability 10 get con-
genia. employment. and also depress'
ed by the shadow OF parental opposi-
ton 10 his marriage 10 a handsome
Gentle woman, Maurice Il. Resented.
20 years old, shot and killed himself
n room No. IS. OF the Grisw Did
house, Tuesday morning.
His bride. handsome brunette.
knew nothing OF the tragedy until
newspaper men broke the news 10 her
in the rooming house al No. 80 Cass-
ST, where the young couple had made
their home for the last TWO weeks,
" hile Rosenfcld tiled in vain To ind
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
lie do such thing? What shall do
now Poor fellow, he was SO discour.
aged. and yet he tried 10 bear up
brayely. 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 10 10 something awful.
like this"
man. mad reported for work at the
typewriter company, and seemed 90
be in good spirits as he started out.
ostensibly for work, at about s 80
o'clock. Instead, he purchased a new
revolver and box OF cartridges, and
shortly before IL o'clock engaged 4
room in the Girls void house. paying
for IL in advance. A revolver shot
attracted attaches OF the hotel. who
found MIN lying on the bed. stripped
or 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 III
stanuy
Before taking his life. Rosenfeld had
had a shave and a 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 III
news with remarkable cemposure
asked Where did he shoot himself?
Is he terribly disfgured? IL was the
historical question OF bride, deeply
in love with her fine-look.ng husband,
and hardly realizing the truth.
lie was discouraged" she said,
land his discouragement was added
10 by the fact that he had not received
any word from home for long time
He was Jewish, and | am a GENTLE.
and his parents did not exactly Ike
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. 1895 vincennes-ave.. Chi
cago. The young bride was formerly
Miss yerna F. Hale. OF Oshkosh. Wis.
The last letter received by Maurice
from his mother was dated May 20,
and seemed 10 contradict the brides
statement that there was ill-feeine
over the marriage. The letter was ad'
dressed. Dear Children" and express.
ed the hope that Maurice had found
a position with the Weiueman broth
ers nrobably referring 10 the prophet
ors of the People's Quitting Co.