The Washington times., 1921-03-02
LOVED HIM." 50
SHE KILLED HIM
Beautiful Divorce Shoots Mar
ried Man Dead In Her Flat
After Cafe Quarrel.
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had not been home more than an
hour when he called me on the phone
and used terrible language. He called
me names, and I said; You can't talk
to me like that. and I asked the
operator not to call me any more.
@ToRE noLDING oEF DOOR,
'In about nfteen minutes heard
him at the door. He tore the whole
molding on the hinges. don't kpow
how. II was locked and bolted. He
took the bolt right on the door. ran
quick and locked the bedroom door,
and he came TO the back bedroom
door. said. Herbert. don't. i don't
want people around here to put me
out Of this apartment
IT opened the door and said. Her
bert, please be quiet As j opened II
he hit me In the face-so hard.
fell backward over a little settee
have there.
'T said, IF you do that. I will kill
you He seized me and began strsn-
Cling me. finally broke away. ran
to the bed and got the revolver. He
had given IL to me for projection. As
he came over to hit me. i said: Her
bert, don't you dare and then ] fired.
He dropped on the bed, and l picked
him up and kissed him. Who was In
the nat when the shooting occurred?
Not a soul. I have a little Boston
bulldog. He was In the kitchen"
In later statements to the police,
Mrs. Orthwein said: He was trying
to throw me over"
"Oh, why, why. does anybody want
to keep a gum she cried. II loved
him-God knows love him" And
then. IT want to die-why don't they
let me kill myself"-and "a woman's
a damn fool to believe any damn
man." and every mans just a piece
Of hell"
"He broke open two doors, and
when ! had the revolver on him. he
shouted: You dare not; you are not
game Then / fred"
AROUsES WHOLE BUILDING.
Mrs. Orthwein aroused all the oc-
cupants of the building with her cries.
when the police arrived she was sob
bling Historically beside the body.
One shot had entered near the heart,
a second through the neck.
Twenty women In night garments
were crowded about the couple when
the police arrived. The two had
posed as brother and sister, and lux
ury poured through the apartment.
Mrs. Orthwein donned a $4,000 mink
coat and carried $4,000 in diamonds
with her when she accompanied the
police.
so this is the end" she exclaimed.
"All for nothing" On a table was a
volume of Robert Services poems
that she had been reading before the
forcible entry of zeigler. The book
was open at THE Harper" and this
verse was UNDERSIGNED:
From Loves close kiss to Helrs abyss
is one sheer flight, I trow.
And Wedding Ring and Bridal Bell
are Will-O'-Wisps OF Woe.
And it's not wise to love too well,
and this all women know.
Wherefore. the wolf pack having
gorged upon the lamb. their prey.
With silent smile and serpent guile
make the wolf pack pay
With velvet paws and fencing claws,
a tigress reused to STAY"
While preparing to leave the apart
ment Mrs. Orthwein kept crying. "Ive
killed Herb. I've killed the man I
love-"
The officers said she begged them
to let her end her own life. They did
their best to calm her. and in a few
moments she told her rambling story
broken frequently by protestations OF
feeling for Ziegler. and cries that she
wanted to kill herself. Several times
the policemen restrained her, fearing
she would try to take her life.
KNEW ZIEGLER WAS MARRIED.
To the coroner she said she was
born in Columbus, Ohio: was thirty
eight years old. and had an independ.
ent income. 1--WE never had any oc.
cupation," she said. that was the
trouble. We never had any but petty
quarrels. I knew he was married
but he said his wife wasn't congeniaI."
Mrs. Orthwein held mp big dia-