The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-09-24
|lTEs INQUEST IS
ON IN CLEVELAND.
Witnesses Tell Of Detroit Mans In
fatuation for Woman-His Body
Sent To Canada.


& Yates, wealthy Detroit business man,
who hanged himself In the county
3 jail yesterday after he had shot and
seriously wounded Mrs. Ida Singer,
during a quarrel at Whites roadhouse
was begun here at 10 o'clock
this morning. Coroner Boesger an
nounced that he would attempt TO
establish motive for the suicide
other than the shooting OF Mrs. sing
er. Yates body was shipped 10
Brantford, Ontario, early today.
Mrs. Singer Is madly infatuated
N with her husband. For two weeks,
Il was learned. Friday, she had
logged his steps In Cleveland, seek
ing reconciliation. She attemI ted
suicide with carbolic acid at his door
when refused admittance.
Taxicab drivers Friday said they
had called for her almost daily at the
Euclid hotel the past two weeks, aud
each time she asked to be driven
back and forth In front Of her hus-
bands home, No. 50S9 Quincy-ave.
She never sought admittance to their
knowledge, but seemed only to want
to catch sight OF him. Her first trip
was made two weeks ago, the day she
( registered at the Euclid hotel
"She directed me to take her out
Quincy-ave.," said A. l.. Hinckley. Au-
70 Livery Co., driver. She seemed
anxious to watch house Oh Quincy
\ ave.. near East Fifty-eighth-st. | had
no suspicion Of what she wanted un-
( I'll she ordered me to stop In front
of q bill board half block away. She
dismissed me there, and l watched
her walk behind the bill board. She
could get q good view OF Singers
Z house from there"
The date Hinckley gave for the in
cident tallies with the dare neigh
bors say she attempted suicide at
Singers doorstep.
A Erb, another Auto Livery Co.
chauffeur. corroborated Hincaley's
story OF frequent calls for taxicabs.
Erb said he had taken Mrs. Singer
and her husband from the Euclid no
/. tel for q drive through the parks a
week ago Monday. He heard nothing
OF their conversation.
Coroner Boesger questioned Mrs.
: Singer at Lakewood hospital, Friday,
but she refused to disclose either her
relations with Yates OF her husband.
II don't even know his name" she
said OF Yates.
Mrs. Singer said this morning At
torney Frank Billnan has instruct
ed her to speak to no one. She was
apparently suffering little pain, and
showed no nervousness.
Had you been to Silverthorn's ho-
tel with Yates before the snooting?"
Boesger asked.
81 don't know whose hotel we were
at II was the little one across the
street from where the shooting oc-
Cured.
The place she indicated Is Silver
( thorn's hotel.
Richard Morton, proprietor of the
hotel, said two strangers came In an
auto about 10 d. m. Wednesday. His
description Tailed with that OF Yates
and Mrs. Singer.
4They ordered two bottles OF beer.
and then inquired about rooms and
breakfast. l assigned them to room
on the second floor. They registered
as A. c. Gresham and wife, Toronto.
noticed nothing unusual in their APP
pearance, but they had disappeared in
the morning"
A. Erb, chauffeur, said he had taken
Yates and Mrs. Singer to Lovemans
road house, Superior-ave., Wednesday
afternoon.
"They remained there until late in
\ the evening. Then l took them to
Silverthorn's Rocky River road house.
1t was about 10 when We arrived.
Yates told me to wait, as they in
tended TO go back to town. / saw
them drinking in the grillroom and
Afterwards go to room. After a
while, Yates came down, fully dressed,
and walked nervously up and do-1
the porch. He was slightly intoxi-
Gated. but plainly much worried about
something.
after a time he told me could 20,
because the lady was sleeping and
would not 20 back to town that night
He told me to come out for them at
8 In the morning"
Mrs. Singer became friendly with
the chauffeurs after the first week and
often conversed with them.
Marshall Roy Martin, Of Rocky
! River. told Coroner Boesger, Friday.
that Yates told him after the arrest
he had bought the revolver with the
purpose of killing Mrs. Singer.
Il love the woman" he said, and
you know the rest"
Mrs. Singer admitted last night
that she was secretly married in
Battle Creek two and half years
ago. She first met Singer in that city
while he was travelling for a collar
4 and cuff house. The Singers removed
to Detroit soon after their wedding,
living there one. and half years.
The couple separated there, Singer
coming TO Cleveland to take posi-
ton with Euclid-ave. house. His
\ wife remained In Detroit. II was
there that she met Yates.
Singer would not go to the hospital
yesterday to visit his wife, whose re-
covery IL predicted by the physicians.
He did not deny that he intended
starting action for divorce two weeks
ago.
The woman known as Mrs. Fred
Singer, shot and seriously wounded in
\ Cleveland by b. w. Yates. wealthy
Detroiter. who afterwards hanged him
self In his cell. has been recognized a.
woman of the under world In De
troit
Arthur Yates. the elder son. Is now
In Cleveland, where he made arrange
ments for the shipping OF the remains
20 Brnntford, Ont. Mrs. Yates is still
under doctors care in her home
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