Semi-weekly herald., 1913-11-20
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Los Angeles real estate dealer. She
was separated from her husband, who
was her victim, and gave as her rea-
son for killing him an alleged wrong
he had done to their daughter young
girl in her teens. She had worked,
she said as domestic In Los Angeles
to get money to pay for a pistol and
for the taxicab in which she drove
one morning recently to his subur-
ban home. Calling him to the door
she shot him through the body and
turned to flee. She dropped her pis-
tol as she did so and Ivy, snatching it,
as he lay PROSTATE across his own
threshold, fired after her. The shot
missed but the chauffeur seized her
as she ran from the gate and held
her until the police arrived. Ivy died
few days later II am glad Of it."
exclaimed the woman, when she heard
the news.
Miss Alexander shot Joseph Van
Baalen, an advertising agent, in his
office in the Chronicle building. She
had lived with him, though he was q
married man, and said that he had
promised to make her his wife AZ
soon as he could get divorce. This
promise he failed to keep and to make
driven frantic by jealousy at the at
tention she said he was paying to .
+; third woman. When she called 1t his
office to expostulate with him snd he
spoke roughly to her, she drew = pis-
tol from the folds Of her drcss and
shot him three times. Van Baalen
died the next day. Unlike Mrs. Ivy,
Miss Alexander was frantic with
| grief at her victims death and re-
fused for long time to believe that
he had succumbed to his wounds.
The Drown case was perhaps even
more remarkable. Mrs. Drown and
her husband had always, everyone
supposed, lived happily together. The
wife, it appeared. suspected her hus-
band, however, Of infidelity. Arising
early one morning About month ago
she shot her husband through the
head as he slept, killing him instant
ly. She calmly left her palatial
home, for the browns were rich and
spent the day with friends. Late in
the afternoon she attempted to shoot
the woman she suspected had won her
dead husbands affection. She only
failed because she had omitted to re-
lease the safety catch Of her auto
matte pistol. She fled, Joined par
ty on its way TO the Portola festivi-
| ties in San Francisco and was appar-
emily enjoying herself to the utmost
when she suddenly burst into tears
and confessed her crime to her as
tonished companions, as they stood In
the midst Of the merry-making
crowd.
The dead mans brother was hur-
riedly called on the telephone and
| WIN nm anu VIE. bIoWu, tuc PaIIy
hastened to the Drown home. 1t was
early on the morning following the
tragedy when they entered the bed
rooh, to find Drown dead in bed, ex-
actly as his wife had said. Mrs.
Drown has been nearly prostrated
since the shooting.
The three cases followed close on
the heels, too, of the killing Of Louis
Belmont by his wife, Leah, who shot
him to death in Los Angeles for urg-
ing her. she said, to support him by
living life of shame. She was ex-
onerated by coroner's jury.
A fifth case in which woman was
involved, though in that instance it
was woman too who was killed, was
that of Cleo Sterling, denizen Of the
underworld accused Of completely
with Sam Raber, cabaret singer,
and Jack Drumgoole, Chicago prize
fighter, in the robbery and murder
of Cherry de st. Maurice, propriet-
/, ress of n Sacramento red light dive.