The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-09-01
FAILED TO DIE
Because Woman Won't Tell It Estate
Is Withheld.


New York, Sept. IA young wo-
man went to a lawyer in this city the
other day and told him that because
her dead husband had induce her to
listen to secret which he said was
slowly killing him, and because she
agreed to hear 1t, though he imposed
the condition that they die together
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 never told the
secret, and that she never would.
The lawyer has learned that last
winter. when she lay in the ]. 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 today to the sis
ters Of the dead man. In these the
lawyer in the case has tried to bring
about an understanding without the
necessity OF court proceedings.
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 license, 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
a few days he said no more about
his secret. Then he came to her and
said that he had decided she mus,
know, but that there was only one
way she could know. II 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?
His influence upon her was so great
that before two weeks elapsed after
their marriage she agreed to do az
he wished. On the afternoon of No
vember ! he turned on the gas and
they went to bed.
Consciousness was leaving hez
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 hack
ing at his own wrists. She was In
the hospital when she became con-
scious. Neighbors had brought the
police too late to save her husbands
life.
Since she got out Of the hospital
Mrs. Torrea has flied ancillary letters
Of administration with the surrogate
here, and has been appointed admin
istratrix Of her husbands estate un-
der a bond of $4,000. Friends of Tor
rea told Lawyer Blumenthal that
Richard Torrea. Raul's father, left
$500. 900 when he died, and that about
100000 of this was to 60 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 led Torrea
to insist upon the suicide agreement
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THE WEATHER.
= North Dakota: Generally fair
tonight and Saturday. Cooler to
night.
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