Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-24
TRIANGLE FAR
FROM SOLUTION
BY LOVERS HERE
This Is Story Of "Tea fol
Three" On Stage and as
Enacted In Real
Life.

While Norman Hackett in Tea
for Three was explaining to the
elite Of Omaha Monday night at the
Boyd theater how it is really pos
sible to solve the world-old "trian-
gle" without resort to divorce or
bloodshed two young lovers, torn
BY the tempest of the primal emo
.tions, sat, clasped in each others
arms in a home at 1877 South Twen-
ty-fourth street and, with the gas
turned on, waited for death.
This is the report of the police,
who hurried to 1881 California
\ street Monday night to investigate.
The triangle in this case consists
of Mrs. Bonnie Chapman, u years
old, Carl Chapman, % years old. her
/. former sweetheart, and Walter
\ Chapman, her husband. Walter and
Carl are brothers.
Young Chapman's Statement.
Young Carl Chapman, the youth
\ full lover, declared to The Bee last
night that he discovered his sweet
heart in the gas-hlled room and
rescued and revived her.
LAST Friday / told Bonnie | was
going back to the navy" said Carl.
She and | were engaged to be mar
ried. She told my brother, Walter,
I and he suggested that they get mar
ried. She decided to do that to spite
me. They were married last Satur-
day, but she didn't live with him,
though she stayed at my mothers
1 home, 1882 California street.
Il went down there to her sis
ter's home on South Twenty-fourth
street Sunday night and found her
in the room filled with gas. She
was almost dead and revived her.
The gas that inhaled while getting
\ Bonnie out made me sick"
Carl declared that he and Bonnie
arc going to get married after she
has secured divorce.
Fourth Case Recently.
This is the fourth case Of the eter-
nal triangle" which has resulted
seriously enough in Omaha in the
last 10 days to demand the attention
of the police.
In the other three the triangle was
broken by the self-inflicted death of
one of the members. A young wom-
an learned that her friend" had
transferred his affections 10 another.
She turned on the gas in her room
and was found dead, leaving an af-
tectionate note to the young man.
Early last week youth told a
young girl who was living at his
home with him and his father that
he was going to his unc1e's place in.
Kansas and intimated that his affec-
tons might be cast upon another
He said-when her fair form lay
dead-that he was only teasing her
But in her young heart the terrific
emotions made life without him
seem not worth the living. She fed
into = bedroom and swallowed poi
And YeAAnother.
Last Friday, a married youth
found his attentions spurned by
chorus girl and he ended his life
in its springtime.
In the present instance the arrival
OF Louvan Stanley, 14-year-old sis
ter Of Mrs. Bonnie Chapman, at the
home on South Twenty-fourth street
saved the lives of the two young
lovers whose road to happiness was
barred by marriage Of the girl to the
brother of her lover, according to
the story told by Louvan to the po-
lice.
II didn. know that Carl and Bon
& ME were in that gas-filled room,"
Louvan said. II detected the smell
OF gas in the house and then I found
Ronnie suffering from it. She told
me that Carl had just left"
A little later Mrs. Bonnie Chap
man was able to go to the Chapman
home, 1854 California street, VIII IRE
she became violently i'll from the
effects of the gas. The police sur
gcon was called and then the police
investigation started. She was taken
by her sister to Shenandoah, Ia,
Monday night.
Husband is Silent.
Walter Chapman, the husband in
this triangle" would say but little,
except to answer the questions of
the detectives.
Young Louvan Stanley told of
what she knew about the turbulent
passion that is shaking the soul of
the girl wife.
"Bonnie told me Sunday night
that she married Carts brother to
spite Carl because he joked her
about going to Kansas City to
marry another girl. They first met
in Shenandoah, Ia. Carl is a dane
ing instructor and they seemed to
be sweethearts right from the start.
When Carl joined the navy Bonnie
promised to marry him as soon as
he returned.
Sunday night Bonnie cried over