Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-02
PLAN JOINT DEATH
Young New York Stenographer
and Bride Agree to End Life.
WRISTS OF BOTH CUT
Letter to Friend Asks for One Grave
for Both.
HAD DREADED SEPARATION
Wife Still Alive When Rescued and
Has a Chance of
Recovery.

| NEW YORK. November 2-Declaring
| that no one on earth had the right to
separate them and determined that even
in the grave they would be united, Raoul
| Iorrea, aged twenty-six, and his bride of
two weeks yesterday sought death togeth-
| er in their apartment at No. POI West
SD street. The young husband cut his
wife's wrist with knife, cut deep cash
| N his own arm and turned on the gas in
their room. He was dead when found,
but the young woman was still breathing.
She was taken to the j. Hood Wright
Hospital and has a chance of recovery.
Il beg you to put us both in the same
grave Torrea wrote to his friend, E.
Gomex Maillepert. secretary to the Mex
lean consul in this city. I'VE are mar
ried and we have been so happy in life
that no one had the right to attempt to
separate US. No more have they the
right to part us in death. AS our last
wish we again beg you to put us both
in the same grave"
Preferred Death to Parting.
The note is explained by the opposition
of the girls family to her marriage. She
was Elsie Won Mushiveck, and until her
marriage was employed in a millinery
shop on Sd avenue near 59th street. 1t is
said her father was a German nobleman.
After his death the family had been i'm
poverished and the girl came to America
to earn her living. Recently a sister in
Germany sent her money to go home.
and the thought of their parting is be-
lieved to have caused them to decide to
die together.
The husband was young Mexican, who
l,ol 1,rr
an importing broker in this city. His fam
lily in the state of Vera Cruz Mexico, sent
him large remittances. :
Torrea and his wife were alive and
At that hour they were seen at breakfast
by Mary Spriggs, maid in the house
where they lived. At l o'clock dodgers
| smelled gas and traced it to their rooms.
Mary Spriggs tried the door, but no one
answered.
The maid then climbed out on the fire
escape and entered the room through the
window. She found TOrrea and his wife
| in bed, locked in each others arms. Mrs.
Torrea was unconscious. but muttering.
The room was filled with gas, and b1an-
ketS had been placed over the door and
the cracks were stuffed with paper.
Mrs. Torrea Explains.
At the hospital Mrs. Torrea recovered
consciousness for time She said she
and her husband had decided to die and
that he had cut an artery in her arm.
doing the same with his own. They had
| then climbed into bed and prepared for
death.
The police have been unable to discover
| the weapon Torrea used to cut the wrists
of the two. They cannot understand why
| it should not have been in the room. An
! automatic revolver was found under the
| bed.
| TOrrea left a note to Louis Agueros,
| an importer at No. % Broad street. In
| this letter Torrea had written:
by the time you receive this We will
both be dead. l will leave you my
trunks. Please send my wife's rings to my
daughter, Anita. You must imagine how
much have suffered If take this step,
| commit this crime
| To this note Mrs Torrea had added:
| Dear Louis-I will say goodbye to you
| forever. Don't forget us, and forgive us
| that We do such harm. l don't want
| Raoul to go this way alone"
Agueros said that he believed that the
| coming separation between the couple.
/ when the bride would go on visit to her
| people, was the only cause for the double
| tragedy. A relative of the girl had call
| ed upon her and protested against her
marriage.
Torrea and his wife were married at
| the city hall October II by Alderman
| Smith