The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-23
Wealthy Business Man
Attempts Murder, Then
Commits Suicide.
DOUBLE CRIME
ENDS QUARREL.
B. w. Yates, Who Hanged Him,
self in Jail After Arrest for
Shooting Mrs. Fred Singer,
Was Widely Known, and
Affair Is Shrouded in
Mystery.

Cleveland. o., September Gas the
end of a close acuuaintanceship o. un-
known duration, B. w. Yates. a
wealthy Detroit business man. to-day
shot and seriously wounded Mrs. Fred
Singer in Rocky River wine room.
and two hours later hanged himself in
the county jail
Tonight the womans attorney.
Frank Billman. was closeted with
Yates's two sons for several hours.
The result of the interview was not
given out. and the three absolutely
refused TO discuss the shooting or its
cause. The young men, A. w. and
III. f. Yates hurried here from De-
troit as soon as the news OF the shoot
ing reached them. and the body of
their father was shortly afterward
Identified as 1t lay in a private morgue.
& Yates was forty-eight years old and
married. He was chairman of the
board of directors of the Business
Mems Publishing Company. Of Detroit,
was owner and manager of hotel.
and possessed extensive lumber hold
ings near Bradford, Ont.
1t Is TO this latter place that his
body viii be removed tomorrow by
special permit OF the coroner
Mrs. Singer. formerly resident OF
Detroit. but lately residing in Cleve-
land hotel, is the wife of a travelling
salesman, and is related by marriage
to men prominent In Cleveland af-
fairs
The couple spent yesterday after
noon and evening in an automobi
AT midnight last night they went to
road mouse at Rocky River. western
suburb of the city. Four hours later
quarrel occurred in a grill rooi.l
across the street from the place first
visited Mrs. Singer, according to
the har-kccper on duty. ordered 2.
,aSicab by telephone. against Ya,tes's
protest. and ten minutes later the
i.sliot through the back and through
both legs. A policeman and the bar
|, Keeper disarmed the man.
II fred two of the first shots a.
myself. but missed" Yates told Mar
shal Roy Martin. according to that or
ficer.
While the woman was borne to
hospital. Yates was taken to the Cleve-
land Jail and there he hanged himself
to low iron rod in the washroom,
| using his handkerchief as moose.
Complete mystery surrounds the re-
lations of the man and woman. who
have been acquainted. it is admitted.
/, for some time.
She has heen estranged from her
husband for months Her condition is
reported at the hospital as serious but,
IL is added, she Will recover. She was
unable to make a statement, it was
announced.
RS. Singer is rather stout and has
light hair and blue eyes. The dead
+, man was stockily built, and had iron
gray hair and a lisht~brown mustache.
HI was we'll dressed in dark clothes.
Yates Had Been Troublesome.
Detroit. Mich. September 22.-The
mental condition of Burton ". Yates,
supposed to be the Cleveland suicide.
| had been causing hi srelatives and
friends considerably anxiety for six
months.
About two months ago he threaten-
ed to commit suicide in the city ticket
Office OF the Pere Marquette Railroad
| here. but was oyerpowered by II. F.
| Moeller. general passenger agent of
the railroad, who took Yates's revolv-
er away from him.
Yates is said TO have been left by
his father fortune Of nearly half
million dollars, but under conditions
| that gave him control only of the in
| come from the property ana not or
| the principal.
| He had lumber land interests In
| Canada and Ohio, and with other busl-
4 ness interests was secretary of the
point aux Barques Resort Assocla-
! tion. which owns summer resort on
Lake Huron.
In athletics he was we'll known as
Ian enthusiastic curler.
Son Goes to Cleveland.
A son of Yates, well known busi-
ness man here. arranged to-day to
leave at once for Cleveland to see IT
rhe man who committed suicide in the
i isil at Cleveland was his father.
. Yates had been chairman OF the
/ business Mans Publishing Company.
| limited, which had Offices in the De-
| troit Journal building. He had a
/ wife and grown family one OF his
sons having Just graduated from the
! University of Michigan.
AZ his late residence, AS Alexandrine
| Avenue, his wife and family We're
overwhelmed by the report from cleve-
land. Yates left here early IN the
week for business trip to Canada.
| Ills. family understood that he would
stop at Cleveland before returnlng
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