The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-04-27
NEWS or FORTUNE WRECKS
A ROMANCE AND WOMAN
MAY DIE
PERSISTENT LOVER
SHOOTS INTENDED WIFE
AFTER PREPARING HOME
FOR WIFE or ABSENT
MAN, USES PISTOL

Chicago, H., April 27.North of 5;
few letters are written. The mai
service ia bad, for one thing; paper
is scarce, and the aurora borealis
makes poor light for authorship. SC
men live by the law of tooth and nail
dig for gold, and do not swamp the
southbounds rural Alaskan mails with
their affairs.
MRS. Gabriel Loeffler. still young
and still pretty. had not heard from
her husband since he went away three
years ago to hunt yellow metal in the
frozen wastes, where dog is horse
and capable trigger finger OF more
value than prayer book or college
education. At first she had looked
every day for the postman, but moth
lng that he brought was marked from
Nome and her husbands parting words
began TO have a real meaning to her.
Time He Set Passes.
.If you don't hear from me within
two years" he had said, consider
yourself free agent, because will
bo dead
The two years passed, and Leopold
Eollner came to live at the boarding
house Of Mrs. Augusta Marks, ZIG
North Wells street, where Mrs.
Locffler had q room. They met each
other every day and Kellner made
love to the woman whose status as
wife or widow was locked in the. great
archives OF Alaska, filed away Tor
Judgment day. Kellner urged the i'm
probability OF the husbands return
and questioned her right to spend
more of her life waiting The flesh
and blood rival finally proved stronger
than fcalty to husband who had not
spoken for two years.
Wife Waits Six Months.
"Wait six months" said Mrs. Loci
Ardens outside of book
Kellner spent the six months IN
preparing a home to receive his wife.
At the end of the grace they became
engaged and agreed to announce It at
the birthday party of Mrs. Marks, to
which they we're both invited.
Saturday morning Mrs. Loeffler re-
ceiyed battered letter from the post
man. dated from an Alaska office. The
contents were just few rugged lines
TO break the three-year silence and
telling of victory at last, the discovery
OF gold and preparations to return
homo. Gabriel Loeffler ended by say
ing that he was coming back to share
the lucky strike with his wife.
Lover Hears of Letter.
AT the party in the aftern con Mrs.
I.ocffler in agitation called kellner
aside and showed him the letter
kcllner begged her to go away with
him. to repudiate her husband and
become his wife.
Mrs. Loeffler tried to explain the
impossibility of the situation and told
Kellner that she had no legal or moral
right to marry him when she knew her
husband was returning.
81 should think you would be happy
that this letter came when it did, she
said. Saving us from what would have
been tragedy
Uses Revolver Twice.
-Happy?" said Kellner, and turning
away he ran upstairs to his room
Mrs. Loeffler was standing at the
bottom of the stairs, the letter from
Alaska in her hand. She was fair
mark Kellner Used his revolver and
fired.
auerl have to come farther than
Chicago to get you, dear he said as
Mrs. Loeffler spun and dropped.
"And now I'll join you"
Kellner put the revolver to his head
The bullet entered his right temple,
penetrating the brain.
Mrs. Loeffler is fighting for lie
with a bullet in her right breast, and
according to physicians, the chance oil
her ever seeing her husband is slight.