The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-06-23
BRIDE IS 4
SUICIDE or 8 LOVE
Of MARRIED MAN
Take MY Advice, Don't Blur
I Rluffed and Must Paw the
Penalty Of NY
Life

New York, June 20.-The strange dis
appearance OF Miss Minnie X. Wentz,
governess In the home OF Eben e. Whit
man, a wealthy cotton merchant Of
Lawrence, L. l., was cleared up when
she was found dead in the cellar OF tho
home of her uncle, August GAMER, with
a bullet hole In her right temple. The
revolver with which she shot herself
was clasped In her powder-burned
hand.
From unmailed postal cards she left
1t is taken that love for a married man
caused her to end her life. Miss Wentx,
who was 20 years old, had been engaged
to marry Ludwig Reichold, manager Of
an electrical concern. She came to this
city from Lawrence on Wednesday Of
last week 20 spend q day with her
brother. Eric Wentz, and his wife.
fame, sshe had z :-:!s.. g 6 h.s:ssssss
at PsEtchester, l.. l. for his hrade-to-be e,
was to see her the next night at the
home Of Gamer. and there they were to
have arranged to take out a license to
marry on Friday. Reichold telephoned
to Miss Wentz at her brothers home on
Wednesday night, and she expressed
delight that h day of the wedding was
SO near.
Last Words to Her Fiance.
I'll be sure to see you tomorrow
night was her last word to him.
Reichold went to her uncle's home on
Thursday night with a boquet of white
roses and waited two hours for his
sweetheart, but she failed to appear.
While he waited he talkeG with the
girls aunt and was amazed to learn,
that Miss WentZ, some days before, had
expressed doubt that she ought to mar
ry. Deeply perplexed, Reichold re-
turned to Portchester late that night.
On the next day DIR. Whitman tele-
phoned Reichold asking II he knew
where Miss Weintz was, Whitman hav-
ing expected her back at his home in
Lawrence. Shortly after that the po-
lice were asked to hunt for the young
governess. They searched the woods
house. where h had told her brother
she proposed going for the jewelry she
had left there.
Detectives called at thu homo OF Mrs.
Gamer In the hope of getting a clew,
but h told them she had moi seen
Miss Ven The disappearance was
shrouded in mystery.
The discovery of the suicide was
made yesterday afternoon while Mrs.
Gamer, with a newspaper reporter,
We're looking over the Gamer home for
a photograph of the governess, by the
publication of which 1t was hoped she
might be traced. Mrs. Gamer thought
OF a trunk in the wood bin of her cell
lar, in which were some of Miss Wentz's
belongings.
AS Mrs. Gamer, with a lighted taper
in hand, CROPPED her way into the wood
bin, she came upon the go~vernesses'a
body, lying close to the trunk. Mrs
Gamer shrieked and tainted.
Coroner's Physician Weston found
Miss Wentz's handbag lying at her side.
In 1t We're five postal cards with grew
some pictures upon them of a woman
PROSTATE before a tomb. The cards
We're addressed to various members of
the family. one of them, written to her
brother, Eric gave the only hint Of the
reason for the suicide. 1t read:
Dear Erfc-This, l guess, will be the
last that any of you will hear from ne.
Take my advice and don't bluff. /
bluffed and must pay the penalty of my
life. / was to marry today, but instead
1 die by my own hand. God bless you
ter, Minnie"
Loved a Married Man.
Eric Wentz told a reporter that his
sister had spoken to him OF a man other
than Reichold, while Mrs. Cancer went
further and explained that Miss Wentz
had confided to her that this man wa
married and that she loved him. The
COdCluSioil VI lHe SHl 5 relatives is That
she found, on the v of her proposed
marriage to Reichold, that she could
not carry out her promise.
To her fiance. Miss Wentz left a
postal caro- reading:
Forgive the deed, dearest. There Is
no other way for me. On the day we
are to be married, l do that which costs
me my life"
The %coroner's physician expressed the
belief that Miss Wentz had gone to the
cellar late last Thursday, or early Fri
day, while the family was in another
part of the house. She could have en-
tered through the basement by slipping
the catch on an iron door and got to
the cellar unobserved. She had prob
ably pawned some of her jewelry to buy
the revolver. The wood bin is SO tight
ly closed up that the sound of the shot
was muffled.