The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-11-12
Horrible Tragedy Enacted in
New York Hotel in Which
Richmonders Are Victims
WAS WELL KNOWN
IN BUSINESS CIRCLES
Couple Quarreled Several
Days, According to Remark
able Diary Left by Dead
Man

While relatives hero Of Henry
G. RUPERT, former well-known
young real estate operator OF this
city, last night expressed the be-
lief that tho pleadings Of his wife.
who has been i'll for some time,
prompted him to enact tho 4
tragedy that ended both their
lives In the Hotel McAlpin In
New York yesterday, the entries
for the last five days In q diary
left by Ruppcet indicates that the
nation Of . soFies Of Quarrcls and
nght1ng between the couple.
Outside the news dispatches re-
ceived last night, there was little de-
tail in the Information received by
the families. Of tho couple. Mystery
surrounding the possible motive OF
Rupert in shooting his wife below
the right ear and then ending his
own life with q shot into his mouth
ing-fhe nnal entry in the diary OF
Rupert:
New York. Wednesday, Nov 10
About Z A NJ Rosaiie very mad
Begins to dig her nnger-naiie In me
and fight me. One thing brings on
another. and / tell her about my trip
TO Richmond during fair week. She
all up and bruised. She takes bath
at | +. NJ. and then goes to sleep.
I sit around the room waiting for our
trunks to come. Resale gets UP and
beats me up some more. She writes
to her mother"
Here the diary ends. There was
no entry for yesterday. November IL
~ "a -
the shots that ended both her life and
his were heard.
Instructions were last night sent to
New York for the shipment OF the
bodies Of Mr.. and Mrs. Ripper by
express to this city. and II In expected
that they with be received at Biiley's
undertaking establishment tonight.
None of the relatives OF either Mrs.
Ripper or Mr.. Ripper could leave
thc city last night, and none went to
New York to claim the bodies.
Story of Tragedy.
About noon yesterday, according to
news reports from New York. guests
at the McAipin heard the sound of
pistol shots coming from the rooms
occupied by Mr.. and Mrs Rupert,
who had gone to the hotel two days
ago and engaged an expensive suite.
Servants. too, heard the reports. and
House Detective Dennison. OF the Nc
Aipin, was called They Immediate
ly entered the rooms and saw the
bodies of the people
Physicians were summoned, but
when they responded life OF both was
extinct. Mrs. Rupert was shot In the
head. the bullet having entered under
the right ear. Her body lay across
a bed. upon which she had appa-
rently fallen backward.
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bullet IN the brain. which entered
through the mouth. His body lay
near tia, of his wife.
Indications were that Mrs Rupert
had left writing table just before
the fatal shots were fired. partly
written letter In her handwriting was
on the table. That the couple had
auarreled Immediately before the
shooting was the theory advanced by
the New York police and hotel au-
thorities. They could assign no other
probable cause
At his home, 720 West Broad Street,
this city, last night, Henry Boltz, an
uncle OF Rupert. advanced the sug-
gestton that the young man. driven
insane by pleadings OF his wife that
he kill her and end her sufYerings.
shot and killed her and then turned
the weapon upon himself Mr.. Boltz
suppo-ts his theory with the fact
that Mrs. Ruppert's health had been
precariOus for some time: that she
mad recently undergone operations
upon her head and for the removal
Of . growth, believed cancerous, from
her side, at Grace Hospital here.
Mrs Rupert had been Ill for
months. he said. and 1t was In hope
OF finding more healthful surround
ings .or ter that Mr.. Rupert wound
III his BUSINESS affairs here several
weeks ago sold hts home on the
Boulevard and went North. with
view Of going later on to the West,
L.ssss:, 20 ,sa'forria-
Wifc's Family Shocked.
This view does not seem to hold
In the esirds OF the members OF the
i..:o.tr.atn fasul.y CT Mrs. Rupert.
Wso oefcre her marriage was Miss
RcsaAt, S.atou, daughter OF MIR. and
Mrs. Joseph r. Station. 29lS West
%ais Street, Eicip,catt. Mrs. Station
last night said that she had no idea
- reess ssstist .casr .npcilsd the act
OF Mr.. Rupert. Recent letters from
her daughter. she said, had not been
indicative OF trouble. The news of
the tragedy came as the greatest sur
prise to the Station family and was a
1.eat shcck. The real import OF tho
tire sic deaths OF the couple YESTERDAY
cannot be realised In the station home
and 1t was with difficulty that mem
o.ss of the household last night dis
cussed II.
Henry c. Rupert, who was about
thirty-fve years of age, was son
'i'satire Rupert. who lives
on North Monroe Street. His father
Conttnna. m cecon8 pava,