New-York tribune., 1912-02-26
HIS LOVE SCORNED, MAN
SHOOTS WOMAN AND SELF
Calls at Her Apartments and
Shooting Follows Stormy
Interview.
GIRL SERVANT NEAR BY
Young French Woman, Accord
ing to Maids Story, Said
She Was Tired of
Youths Affection.
GIRL SERVANT NEAR BY

As an end to a stormy interview with
disappointed lover who called at her
apartments, at No. All Seventh avenue,
Mrs. Renee Well, an attractive young
French woman, was shot and instantly
killed about o'clock last evening. The
man. who up to early this morning had
not been identified, waited only long
enough to satisfy himself that the
woman was dead, and then shot himself
in the right temple. dying in few min
utes.
While every effort to discover the iden-
tity Of the young man ended in failure,
the police got a complete story OF the
facts leading up TO the shooting from
Matilde Montpelier, Mrs. Wells maid,
who was the first TO give the alarm.
According to the maid, shortly after
noon she heard the telephone ring and
Mrs. We'll went TO answer It, There FOL
lowed a short conversation. and few
minutes later her mistress came to hsr
laughing and told her that the young
fellow" would call shortly and that she
intended to break with him and give
him back his photograph. In some de-
tached conversation which followed the
maid was given TO understand that Mrs.
Wells admirer had OF late become too
insistent and that she tired OF him and
intended to dismiss him.
Hears Couple in Dispute.
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sage was received Mrs Wells caller ar
rived He was ushered into'a a small re-
ception room on the second floor, ana
Miss Montpelier said that later she.
heard the sound or excited voices. At
intervals during the afternoon this was
repeated and usually the sounds OF dis
pute would be followed by comparative
silence
Shortly before q O'Clock the maid hap
pened TO be passing the room in which
Mrs. We'll sat with her guest when the
door opened and her mistress SAID 10
her with a laugh and nod Of the head
toward the man:
"Matilde, he wants me to give up
Paris and live with him.
The maid says that she ventured no
ranIv 70 this and that Mrs. We'll in
stantlv followed up the remark with a
request for a photograph OF the young
man. which she said would he found In
her room upstairs. The maid got the
photograph, returned with 1t and went
ayav Immediately. She had hardly
made three steps away from the door
when shril screams came from inside.
mingled with the excited yells Of the
man and the report of revolver shots.
Miss Montpelier didn't wait TO see
what was going on inside the room, but
ran downstairs and out to the street
At the sound Of the shooting Amel
Iigier, a waiter in a restaurant directly
under the We'll apartments, had run out
on the street and he met the terrified
girl at the foot OF the stairs. A crowd Of
lunchers came out Of the restaurant, and
julius Guggenheim, its manager, and
Patrolman German, Of the West Both
street station, ran up the stairs into the
house.
Woman Dead When Found.
They found the young Frenchwoman
living on her face across the threshold Of
the door leading into the hall. Her hair
had partly come down and lay I'm a
thick coil in a pool Of blood about her
head. Her arms were doubled under her
as If she had been unconscious when
she fell, and II took only "A moment to
discover that she was dead. Gas was
pouring from the darkened room and
Patrolman German stepped across the
body into the room and found that the
gas was coming from an open Jet, from
which a rubber tube leading to a small
stove had become disconnected. Windows
we're opened and finally the room be-
came sufficiently cleared Of the fumes to
allow a match to be struck in safety.
The gas stove was on its side, where 1t
had been thrown, pulling the tube loose
from the jet. On a chair near by lay
the body OF light haired young man. A
heavy revolver lay at his feet on the
floor and a thin trail Of blood was seep-
ing out of a bullet wound In his temple.
He also was dead.
German fought back the curious and
excited crowd from the restaurant and
the street that had jammed up the
stairs, and detectives from the Tender
loin station were summoned by tele-
phone. The maid then told her story,
and was later taken to the West Both
street police station, where she was ex-
amined by Captain McElroy of the de-
tective squad. Beyond the information
that the young man had been a regular
caller at the house for several months
the police could learn little which would
serve in an attempt at identification.
The maid said that Mrs. Wells husband
was now living in Paris. and that she
had intended to join him there in a few
weeks.
Tho names on two cards found i'm Mrs.
Wells trunk bore the following name
and addresses: Peter b. Grennell, No. 6e
Cranberry street. Brooklyn, n. "" and
Peter Z. Grennell, No 90 College Place
Brooklyn. N Y" At No. sc Cranberry
street which Is n boarding house, il was
said last night that man Of that name
had lived there three months but that he
had LETT there year ago. The number
at College Place is a garage, which was
nat. ferIa