Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-12
.UNREQU|TED LOVE
LEADS TO TRAGEDY
Peruvian Tries to Shoot Ameri-
can Girl, Kills Duluth Man and
Attempts to End Life.
DRAMATIC ROMANCE AT SEA
Story of Murder and Suicide
Told by Passengers on Steam
ship Tennyson.
Especial to The Times-Dispatch.l

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NEW YORK. July 11.-Driven to
frenzy by unrequited love for a beau
utui American girl he met for the first
time recently on an ocean voyage.
Ceasare Bravo. former naval attache at
| the PERUVIAN legation in Washington.
tried to shoot Miss Gertrude Ives. Of
Niagara Falls; murdered James Cooney,
OF Duluth. Mimi. and then killed him
selt on board the steamship Tennyson
| OF the Lamport & Holt Line
The romance and tragedy Of the sea
occurred in British waters. about sixtv
| miles out of the Barbados last Sunday
night, but not until the Tennyson
| slipped into port to-day was the dra-
matte story told. In the hold of the
vessel was the body Of Cooney in
sealed coffin. draped with the American
flag. Bravo died in the hospital in
Bridgetown, British West Indies. and
when the Tennyson lef; that port an
investigation by the British authorities
was under way. All the tragedy Of
LeoncaHallo's Il Pagliacci" surrounds
the story of this murder and suicide
Inc PERUVIAN, with his Latin tempera-
ment and love OF the unusual, staged
! a climax analogous with the end Of
the famous opera. In the play, Canio.
after uttering threats against his rival.
stabs Media, and then, knife in hand.
announces mockingly, The comedy is
ended"
Bravo, after concluding that his love
was hopeless. and deciding TO kill all
concerned, scribbled with a lead pencil
in Spanish on his deck chair: La
comedy est flnetta" (the coredy is
finished).
ADVANCES OF PERUVIAN
RESENTED BY GIRL
In no part of the real drama does
Miss Ives appear in the role of a
coquette. She was chaperoned by her
father and mother. Mr.. and Mrs. John
H. Ives. Of Niagara Falls, and was on
the last lap of a world tour. The ad-
vances of the Peruvian were resented
by her. and Cooney. a buyer for
Spencer & Kellog, of Buffalo, and an
old friend Of the family, paid with his
life for acting as a buffer between the
girl and the man who was madly in
| fatuatcd with her.
Captain Symons, OF the Tennyson,
was inclined to-day to minimize the
part Miss Ives, who is twenty years old
| and unusually pretty, played in the af-
fair' giving another reason for the
shooting. but minor officers, including
the 1vess table steward, were en-
phatic in their statement that the
Peruvian became smitten with the
young girl the first time he saw her
The Tennyson is combination
freighter and passenger ship, plying
| between Buenos Aires and New York
| When she left the South American port
| on June II She carried forty-three
cabin passengers and more than 100 in
the third class. The Ives family went
aboard at Buenos Aires, accompanied
| by Cooney, who was in Argentina buy
| ing linseed for his firm Bravo seemed
to be out on government business, as
he sent a radiogram to the Washington
legation announcing that he would ar
| rive in New York on July TO-
Smooth and polished. a thorough
| man Of the world, Bravo, who sat at
the captains table, just back of the
Ives and Cooney, began to pay the
young woman marked attention after
meeting her the first day out This
was noticed by all of the passengers
and crew. But Miss Ives seldom spoke
| TO him, and showed in every manner
that she did not care for his society.
IvEs's TABLE STEWARD
TELLS Of OCCURRENCES
| George NJ. Jacques. the Ives's table
1 trans
pired. and said Bravo's face was n
study as he sat at dinner and watched
Miss Ives and Cooney laughing and
chatting together or slipping their
| mattio n native tea.
He just glared and glared" said
Jacques, land every one was expecting
something TO happen.
"On the evening OF July g." JACQUES
continued, Bravo seized an oppor-
tunity to speak to Miss Ives at the
dinner table after Mr.. and Mrs. Ives
and Cooney had left the saloon. Going
over to her. he said:
Don't YOU dare go ashore with
Cooney Tomorrow 1 didn't hear what
Miss Ives said in reply but it was YER,
low. and she left hurriedly. The next
day we made Bridgetown, and Miss
Ives did go ashore with Cooney and
her father and mother. Bravo stood on
the deck with n scowl on his face.
watching the party. and then went
ashore with another party, which in
cluded Mr.. Underwood, the typewriter
manufacturer.
when the Ives party returned,
| Cooney seemed to be annoyed. and.
turning to Mr.. Ives. said: We'll, what
do you think of Bravo? He got sore
because l wouldn't take drink with
him. Mr.. Ives replied: You did Just
right Bravo is no gentleman"
| What followed is told by the crew,
and, while not borne out In toto by
Captain Symons. who did not see the
shooting. Is described identically by
| more than one person.
AT half-past 8, on the 4th of July,
| Miss Ives and Cooney were walking on
the saloon deck and passed the smok-
| Ing room on the port side. Suddenly
| the figure Of Bravo, who, 1t is said
had been drinking heavily. appeared
| from the smoking room. AS soon as
he saw the couple. ne walked up, and
with an ugly scowl, deliberately walked
between Miss Ives and Cooney, brushed
| the latter to one side. and selling. the
girl by the arm walked away with her
1t was done so quickly that the Ameri-
can had no chance to resent the insult,