New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-01-11
SHOOTS CHUM AND SELF
YOUNG Nan HAD COME
BETWEEN THEM.
Strange Girl of the S1oeatshops Dies
Unazcare That Friend She
Shot Still LiUeS.
by Telegraph to The Tribune,l ]

| Chicago Ian 1o-"Whateyer lives lives to
| die in sorrow. We engage our hearts and
| grasp after the things of this world only to
undergo the pang of losing them"
| With this bitter philosophy from schliler
| drama 1.-The Robbers fixed In her morbid mind
| by night spent in reading "sapho' and Ham
| let" Anna Rubinoyitch left her room in west
| Side tenement house this morning and hurried
to the home OF her dearest friend. there to end
| by attempting to kill the girl and by killing
herself a real drama of love and friendship, OF
socialism and anarchy, Of sweatshop bondage
| and high aspirations, of two women and one
man.
Not the ordinary story of the love of two
women for a man was this in which Anna Ra-
binovitch, child of the Russian revolution ana
daughter of the Ghetto, played the principal
part The young woman shot her girl rleho
through jealousy of the man in the case
through determination that this girl, whom
she loved, should never become the possession
of another.
But in spite of her determination, in spite Oh
the steady aim with which she sent bullet
through the breast of Bertha Yoolonsky ana
into the wall behind her. it was announced TO-
night that the girl would live
| small, dark inner room on the third floor
of a dingy tenement at Latin and West 18th
streets was the home of the dead girl and the
scene of most of the acts in the tragedy. Here
the two girls both recent immigrants from Rus
! sia both employed the same garment maker S.
shop, both pretty and just out of their teens.
met TO discuss socialism. anarchy, history, liter
| aturc the revolution and similar subjects. Here
Bernard Kamenetzky, who lodged in the same
tenement joined them and, according to the
dying statement of the suicide, brought love
into the group" and came between the two
friends.
And to-day in this room there lay the led
where the strange girl of the Ghetto had left
them after a night of reading Hamlet in
English and worn to fragments; Sapho, by
Alphonse Daudet. in French, paper bound, and
volume of Schiller's works, in German, opened
at the drama "The Robbers and likewise
thumbed from end to end. On small table
beside the bed were Dickens's "Childs' History
of England" The Evolution of Man. by Will
helm Bosche; an English fifth reader German
English and French dictionaries. appeal to
the young by Prince Peter Kropotl1in and many
books in Russian, most of them on socialism
This was the mental food which the mind Of
the ssweatshpp 1yorker was fed And ifsSffe epen
books beside the pillow meant anything. these
were the stimulants which nerved her for the
commission of her double crime
A short note her books and the following
dying statement were all that she left to show
the workings of her mind, and the motives for
her crime:
Il held her love until that young man came
between us" she said as she lay dying at the
county hospital Il had full control over her
She loved me and l loved her but when she
began going with him she changed. He got
control over her and she loved him. / do not
regret what l did"
The note, found in her bosom, read:
For the police: Bury me without any cere-
mony. 1 want you not to disturb any of my
friends or relatives. My body. if possible.
should be burned. At any rate not to be used
for anatomy.