The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-09-07
KEPT POOR BY SECRET.
Because Woman Won't Tell Valuable
Estate is Withheld.

New York, Aug. 30.-A young wo-
man went to lawyer in this city the
other day and told him THAT because
her dead husband had induced her
to listen to secret which he said
other day and told him that because
she agreed to hear it, though he i'm
posed the condition that they die to-
gether Immediately afterward, her
sisters-in-law in Mexico City refused
to let her have the property that he
left, amounting to something like
100000. She said that she had nev-
er told the secret, and that she never
would.
The lawyer has learned that last
winter, when she lay in the j. Hood
Wright Hospital, recovering from the
wounds inflicted by her husband upon
her and upon himself, from which he
died, she refused to submit to an op-
GRAFTON for blood poisoning because
she was afraid of telling the secret
under an anesthetic. Four letters
went to Mexico City to-day to the
sisters of the dead man. In these
the lawyer in the case has tried to
bring about an understanding with
out the necessity of court proceed
ings.
''Life Impossible" He Said.
Elsa Muchweck Torrea is the young
woman who lived when her husband,
Raul Torrea, died. She came from
Naumberg, Germany, a few months
before she met the young Mexican
in New York. They went to the city
hall on October II, 1910, got IL
cense, and had an alderman marry
them.
Less than an hour after they left
the city hall he told her that he had
been carrying something on his mind
which was too much for him to bear.
He said that this secret oppressed
him so constantly that life was i'm
possible.
They went to live in an apartment
at POI West Eighty-third street. For
few days he said no more about
his secret. Then he came to her and
said that he had decided she must
know, but that there was only one
way she could know. If they both
died, he could be sure that no one
would ever know it. He could not
die with the thought that his secret
would live after him. Would she be
willing to agree that they commit
suicide together?
Entered Into Suicide Agreement.
His influence upon her was so
great that before two weeks elapsed
after their marriage she agreed to
do as he wished. On the afternoon of
November 1 he turned on the gas and
they went to bed.
Consciousness was leaving her
when she heard footsteps in the hall
way outside. Her husband sat up.
The odor must have leaked under
the door, he said. He jumped up
and ran to another room. Presently
he came back with a razor. With it
he slashed her right wrist, ran the
blade up nearly to her shoulder, and
gashed the arteries of her upper
arm. She remembers family seeing
him hacking at his own wrists. She
was in the hospital when she became
conscious. Neighbors had brought
the police too late to save her hus-
bands life.
Since she got out of the hospital
Mrs. Torrea has filed ancially let
ters of administration with the sur
rogate here, and has been appointed
administrative of her husbands es-
tate under bond of $4,000. Friends
of Torrea told Lawyer Blumenthal
that Richard Torrea, Raul's father,
left 100000 when he died, and that
about 100000 of this was to go to
Raul. Her demands upon the estate,
says Mr.. Blumenthal, have been met
by the demand from the sisters that
she tell them the reasons that lead
Torrea to insist upon the suicide
agreement.
WATSON TO INVESTIGATE.