The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-20
Couple Was Engaged to Be Married But Had
 Quarreled
BODEKER ARRESTS
 ROHM, WHO HAD FLED
Rohm Had Roomed at Mrs. Herring's Home But Moved Few Days Ago. Was Proprietor of Down.
 town Lunch Room


 Chief of Police George H. Bodeker, after waiting in stairway near s151s North Twentieth street for several hours last night, arrested Harry Rohm and accused him of killing Mrs. Kate Herring at East Lake just a few hours before. Rohm was lodged in the city jail and will be confined in the county jail this morn ing on a charge of murder.
 The killing occurred at the home of Mrs Herring, where Rohm had been rooming for several months up until about week ago. When seen at the jail last night Rohm said:
 T was engaged to marry Kate, but We had little trouble. It was more than l could stand. Last night l bought me .45 calibre six-shooter and went out there to see her. l called her into the room. I told her that 1 guessed 1 would kill myself She said that if she was me she would not do that as it would do no good. But I told her that l could see no use in living any longer.
 Then 1 drew my pistol and started to put it to my head, when she grabbed 1t and it went off. l did not know until later that she was eveiI hit, much less dead 1 am sorry that 1 killed her for 1 loved her.
 Tried to Kill Himself
 T did not mean to shoot her, but in- tended to shoot myself. I did not know she was dead until MT. Bodeker told me so a minute ago After the shooting ran out of the room, in my shirt sleeves and bareheaded. At the corner l met negro l knew aad borrowed his hat and coat Then l went to the lake, where 1 was going to kill myself But l decided not to and took a Gate City car, coming to town.
 Chief Bodeker said
 Gus Ellard and myself were sitting in my office talking about the Lewisburg affair when the news came in that woman had been shot in East Lake. We heard that Rohm had done the shooting and l asked Gus to walk out on the street with me. l figured that Rohm would come to his lunch store on Twen- tieth street and MT. Ellard and I walked down there.
 After we had waited for some time another man came and told me that he Thought Rohm had gone up to the rooms. Ellard and I went up there and after searching about I flashed my light under a narrow stairway. Rohm was hiding there and we arrested him.
 An interesting feature in connection with the capture is that Chief Bodeker and MT. Ellard were "buddies' on the police force many years ago. Patrolman E. c. Glover also aided in making the cap ture.
 j, The pistol found on Rohm was a .45 Army Colts. There were four cartridges in it. one of them being discharged.
 Killed at East Lake E Rohm, aged 4S years. is charged with tho killing of Mrs, Rerring,, aged 2 wears, at 1o6 South Eighty-first street, East Lake, last night about S:30 o'clock.
 The killing occurred in the home of Mrs. Herring, where Rohm had been rooming for several months up until about week ago. Rohm is the proprietor of d restaur- ant over Henry Jenkins saloon on Twen- tieth street, between Third and Fourth avenues. About a week ago he removed his belongings from Mrs, Herring's home to his restaurant, where he had fitted Up a room.
 He returned to the place last night, it is said, to call upon Mrs. Herring It Is said that he was in love with her and mad repeatedly asked her to marry him. It is said that the purpose of his visit last night was to induce the woman to marry ' him
 At the time of the shooting Mrs Her ring was being visited by a Mrs Stock man, who lives at Soss avenue and Eighty-fir street Paul Stockman, her 15-year-old son, together with Mrs. Her rings children, Paul, aged years, and Ruth, aged years, were III the klicnen or the house. Paul Stockman said that he heard a noise in the room adjoining the kitchen and he heard his mother call for him to get out of the house. He states that he and the Herring children ran from the kitchen through the room in ! which scuffling had been heard. He Estates that when they passed through MrS Herring and Rohm were standing in the | room and that they (the children) ran around threm and on out of the front . door where Mrs. Stockman was. Just as they were clearing the doorsteps they heard a shot and then they ran to the | coal house to hide. He states that Rohm then ran out of the house in his shirt l sleeves and bareheaded. The Stockmar lad states that Rohm ran in the direction lof First avenue from the house.
 ". s. Brown, S049 First avenue, states Xhat he was asleep at the time of the