The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-05-01
Mrs. Rosa Eble Drops Dead
While Husband Fights
Man Who Insulted Her
TRAGEDY At WEST SIDE HOTEL
Young German Woman Who Had Just
Inherited Small Fortune is Believed
to Have Been Overcome With Excite
ment-District Attorney Investigates.

Mrs. Rosa Eble, aged 81 years, wife
of Herman Eble, and a resident of Ke-
nosha for the past three years, met
with tragic death in a corridor Of
the Cream City Hotel on West Park
street just after seven o'clock Sunday
evening and the coroner and district
attorney are making rigid examina-
ton of the death of the young woman.
1t is declared by physicians that she
died from paralysis of the heart fol-
lowing sudden excitement. The case
is an unusual one and Otto Carlson,
also residing at the hotel, is held by
the police pending a full examination
into the case.
Mrs. Eble and her husband with their
three children had made their home at
the hotel for only few days and the
wife was planning to leave today for
New York to sail for Germany. The
room occupied by Carlson at the hotel
is just across the hall from that which
had been occupied by Mr.. and Mrs.
Eble and some time before her death
she had complained to the proprietor
of the hotel that Carlson had made an
insulting remark to her. The proprie-
tor of the hotel had taken the matter
up with Mr.. Eble on Sunday evening
and shortly before the tragic death of
the woman her husband had met Carl
son and the two were engaged in a
wordy war. Evidently Mrs. Eble
heard the quarrel and she opened the
door of her room and with an infant
child in her arms walked out into the
corridor. She approached the two
men and when but a step from them
she toppled and fell over.
The husband rushed to her side and
picked up the baby and other people in
the hotel, who had been drawn to the
corridor by the quarrel, hurried to Sc
cure water which was applied to the
face Of the woman with the belief that
she had tainted. As soon as possible
Doctors Palm and Germano were call
ed to the hotel and they made an ex-
animation of the woman and pro-
nounced her dead. Coroner Millager
was at once notified and he directed
that the body be removed to the rooms
of the Mischler Undertaking Company.
Carlson was arrested shortly after the
death Of the young woman. He de-
clined to make any statement to the
police more than to deny the claim
that he had offered her any insult.
This morning many witnesses were call.
ed to the office of the district attorney
for examination and it is probable that
post norton examination of the body
will be made late today.
Before removing to the hotel Mr..
and Mrs. Eble and their children had
resided in fat on the west side Of
the city. Two weeks ago Mrs. Eble
was notified that she had been named
as heir to an estate in Germany and
she was asked to come at once to prove
her heirship and take possession Of the
property valued at several thousand
dollars. Eble had planned to build
home during her absence. Mrs. Eble
was to have sailed for Germany on last
Wednesday, but she was unable to
leave Kenosha in time to catch the
boat which sailed on that day and she
had decided to leave this week We'd
nesday. She had planned to take her
infant child with her while the other
children, both of tender age, were to
remain with the father at the hotel
until she returned.
Mrs. Eble was well known to MANY
of the German people on the west side
Of the city and she had borne a spot
less reputation. Her husband was
Frustrated by her tragic death.
The police declared today that they
had no theories in connection with the
case, but that on account of the condi-
tions surrounding the death of Mrs.
Eble the district attorney had advised
them that the fullest possible examina-
tion into the facts would be made.