New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-10
TRAGEDIES OF THE HEART
DAVIS News Runs Gamut OF Love,
Jealousy and Despair.
ONE FAMILY ExTERMlNATEO
Husband and Wife in Nearby
Cells, Former Suicide-Suitor
Kills Himself with Dynamite.
lBv Tclegraph 10 The Tribune.

was eXtermlnated To-Day near Luthei' VIII
Casey Van Iieren, a farmer. thrty-fonr
years old. shot and killed his wife, his two
children and himself.
Van Lieren and his wife had been sepa-
rated Eve weeks. and Mrs. Van Leren had
been working in hotel At Luther. Yes
terday she took her daughter. Thelma' nNe
wears old. 10 visit a neighbor In the couh-
trv. To-day Van Lieren took HIS son
1Jovd twelve wears old. out Of the Luther
school and followed his wife. The htue
xirl accompanied her mother when she
went 10 the roadside 10 meet Van lAeren'
and the son sat in his fathers buggy dur
ing heated conversation between the man
and woman.
1t ended with a revolver shot and the
woman fell dead. Turning toward the
buggy the man shot and killed his SON
and then shot down the TERMED niue
girl who was running toward the house
TIurrying 70 his own home Van Lieren pro-
cured a rife and shot himself. He left
note directing that all four be buried in one
grave and that his property be given to
his brother
PHILADELPHIA, May s-Jean Rochelle,
thirty years old. committed suicide IN
cell Of a police station here to-day by
hanging himself to the bars, using a neck
lie as a moose. A man who had been ar
rested for intoxication was in the same cell.
but slept soundly while Rochelle was KILL
ing himself Rochelle and his wife were
arrested while quarreling on the street. and
The wife was in a cell near her husband
when he ended his life. The couple came
here from New York two months ago.
Stockton Cal May 9.-While Margaret
Martinez, a nineteen-year-old Spanish girl,
of whom he was insanely Jealous, was play
Ing a riano yesterday for his entertainment,
Taul Miller. a miner. aged forty-three wears,
fred two shots into her back. killing the
firl Rushing into an adjoining room, Mil
Ter threw himself on a bed. placed a stick
II dynamite in his mouth. III the attached
fuse. and blew his head into fragments.
Milwaukee, MAY 1.-Two young women,
Misses Emma Nelson and Mabel Gilmore.
were shot and instantly killed. and Joseph
inger was seriously wounded, I'm q fight
In a lodging house in River street early
TODAY. by Charles Vance, stationary en-
1ineer Of Racine who then turned the re-
solver upon himself diving instantly.
Ungers story at the Emergency Hospital,
tith a bullet through his right lung. was
that he was paving attention 10 Miss Mel
ton. when The latter began 10 favor Vance
They Quarrelled and Vance drew two re-
,olverS and began firing al Uneer.
Unger said that as he fell Miss Nelson
threw her body between Vance and himself
and was shot. diving almost instantly.
rsrI he hut
5ance fred al her also and she fell dying
as Vance turned his revolver on himself
Allentown. Penn. May 9-1ucensed be-
cause his wife had left him on account of
Ills shiftlessness and brutality John Cirent-
nan shot her and himself last night al
their home between louisville and Treich-
lersville when she returned 10 visit her
children Both are dead
Mrs Grentman was formerly a servant
n the home Of Ex-Governor Frank s. Black,
a. Albany They moved 10 Lehigh County
& wear ago with their four children. Grent-
mans habits split M the family, Mrs.
Grentnan going 10 Newark last March. The
tragedy followed her return Yesterday.
Saut ste Marie. Ont. May s-Anseline
Napoitana, n Young Italian woman, was
sentenced To-Day 10 ne NdNEe0 on AUGUST
for the murder OF her husband.
Several months ago Napolitana- in q
Jealous rage slashed his wife with knife
She was at a hospital for eight weeks
durihg which time the couple apparently
became reconciled. As It turned out the
woman was only hiding her time for an
opportunity 10 take revenge II came on
faster morning. While Napolitana was
~
The date of the execution was set at a
distant date because the woman will soon
become mother.
ST Louis. May 9.-Miss Grace Cooney, OF
No 3425 Pine street. angry because James
Casale failed to keep an appointment with
her. went 70 his CATS in Olive street. this
morning. wearing American beauty roses
az her belt. and with a revolver hidden in
the bouquet She shot him in the arm in
y scuffie over the weapon. she says.
Casale said the shooting was not acct
dental. He told at the City Hospital how
Miss Cooney pinned one Of the roses on
his coat, Just over his heart. stepped back,
leveled the revolver and said. What
would you do II l should shoot. Jim
y guess you won't do that" Casale says
the trigger. the bullet entering his breast
on level with the roses. Casale says the
girl was jealous
Philadelphia, May e-Charged with at
lacking Miss Helen J. futile, sixteen years
old. choir singer at 81. Stephens Church,
II. Hanley Parker forty-one years old a
well known local artist and choir singer,
was arrested at his studio in Chestnut
street. late this afternoon The girl alleges
that Parker attacked her on the sixth floor
OF the Pennsylvania Building. where she is
employed as a stenographer She was
working after hours
Harrisburg. Penn, May 9-Mrs. George >
Trout. Respondent over continued Illness,
caused the deaths of her two young daugh-
tiers and nearly killed herself to-day by
locking the children in her room and turn
ing on the gas Mrs Trout wrote a note
IN which she stated that she was i'll and
could not recover. She will die
Mn Dali COP hl,MEu0M