The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-08-15
SHOT GIRL He WAS TO WE'D
SHE Krone ENG tGEMENT Az
TER nay Ar THE BElCH.
Ida Merteus GraNely Wounded ~ Her
Fathers Door by Emme, simpson
TIE Decided Against suicide and
Fled to the Police Lest IIe Get shot.

Fled to the Police Lest uIe Get shot.
Ida Mertens. who was employed at the
Offices 10 the Adams Express Company
a. Fourteenth ztre-t and Fifth avenue as
a stenographer aud typewriter lies at the
point u death az her home on Tuckahoe
rad near Grassy road. Nonkers. from
two pistol shot wounds. Her rejected
sweetheart Emmett Simpson IL ni West
Twenty eighth street. shot her about
clock Yesterday morning ia front OF
her home The more serious wound WIS
made 10y a bullet that entered her meek
under her right ear. ran around N" back
% her ueck aud came ont behind her
left ear
Simpson met Miss M-rt-ns about five
years ago whra he went To board with
her family ia Bush~ick avenue. BROOKLYN
After the M.rteuses moved to Nonkers the
pair b-Came engaged - he married.
Two or three months ago simpson
complained that the girl was growing
cold tow ard him She admitted 1t About
SIX weeks ago he asked for the several
presents which he had given her, in
cludlng diamonds uf some value. She
resented this inasmuCh a. her mother had
lent him several hundred dollars AZ vari-
Gus times 10 help him ont in his business
and he had returned only part u u.
n. used 10 make wire frames for floral
decorations ia Long Island city. The
girl gave him the trinkets and told him
that she wanted To see no more u him.
IL that's the way you feel about II.
he ~ said e. have answered. we will
both die before long
About a month ago Simpson sold out
his business saying that he had too little
interest to keep Il up He told her that
he Intended to spend the money ON him
self and then take his life when It was
exhausted Last Thursday they had
quite long interview AZ her home
in which hs pleaded II her decision was
irrsvocable that At least she would grant
him one last evening together and he
quoted Browning's Last Ride Together
aud fingered ON the phrase The world
may end tonight. She said she would
see him saturday.
He met her at noon at ths corner 81
Fifth avenue and Fifteenth Strcet and they
went to Coney Island together. In the
evening they returned To New York and
had dinner and then went 10 Hammer
stems Roof Garden. They took the ~
. clock train ont " the Grand central
station and got Of At Tuckahoe
There IL trolley line which runs from
there by her home On the Tuckahoe road
last evening tugether, Ida. he pleaded.
"and walk hume instead Of taxing the cars
Sh. wouldn't walk They took a trolley
aud got to her home about o'clock
Next door 20 her house Ia the residence
u the late James 4 Coulter. who was the
first Mayor ~ Yonksrs The couple
went up On th. terrace ia front Of the
Coulter hO,I-. and sat down 10 chat Simp-
son was pleading all the time for q recon
-ideration but she was persistent la her
refusal. saving that ever since lac had sold
his business she had lost her respect
for him. thinking him shifflss- Her
mother had advised her against marrying
a man with no business. she said
lie said u ives q matter Of life aud
death Then he got ~ his feet fumU ling
In his ,.Dckr, She guessed the meaning
" uis iDONeilrhNs avn ny aA-C
faced him defianiy Then TN. revolver
cains vut IA her face aud she shrank
back lie fired two shots. both " which
took en,. :. one going through her cheek
and out VI her mouth aud the other enter
ing her neck b.hind I'd. ear
sh. ran screaming toward her own
doorstep and tainted few steps from
the veraudA Her mother aud her uncle
L. = 81 - h..
florist Arm known as the Workers Nur-
scry. had been waiting up for her aud
carried her ia
Simpson SAYS he had intended 10 shoot
himself. bat he diIu'i lie put bis pistol
into his pocket aud ran down the road
A. he ran he SAYS lac kept thinking Of
her uncle. who is well known for his Abil
ity to handle revolver aud IL known Co
keep several pistols ia his house
Soon. he said he imagined that he heard
footsteps coming along the road behind
aim and expected every moment TO be-
sho, He did no, like the seusstion and
ran faster Then IL was that two green
lights glimmercd their way into his CON
SERIOUSNESS The lights were those 10 tbs.
second polio. sub station Of Nonk.r-
and he rsn IN No one had been chasing
him
He told Policeman John " Bell that
they were after him for murder The
policeman took his gun away and then
simpson told his story 10 Capt Brady.
DIR Oscar Austin Of Tuckahoe was called
in to attend Miss Mertens He sa,d late
last night that sh. had been resting easily
through the day with a slight rise IN tenn
perstur. toward evening He says Their,
IL a slight chance that she may recover
II blood poisoning doesn't set in
Simpson was held without bail To await
the outcome 81 Miss Merte ms - injuries