Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1922-05-10
Unrequited Love
Leads to Heavy
Days Death Toll
Six Slain, Seven in Hospitals,
After Day Of Romance
and Tragedy in New
York.

New York. May 9,-Romanee and
tragedy. walking hand aud hand
through the metropolitan area yesler.
day. LETT in their wake the longes, lis,
OF violence and suicide the city has
known IN many months.
Seven persons IN hospitals, six
lQdles IN mofgues. and the story in
resrly every case one OF unrequited
love,
DR.. Alfred II. Riedel. eye special.
~. separated from his wife. was said
10 have long been infatuated with a
Broadway chorus girl. He poisoned
himself for her love today. dying
with an improvised spotlight glarins
on his face. ..-
One OF his patients found his body,
covered with black bathfobe as a
pail and with an electric reading
lamp turned full on the pallid eoun.
iensnce.
Kills Sweetheart
John c. Kane. jr., "a, pos,ofiiee
clerk. led his school.ieaeher sweet
heart. Elizabeth Dunn. 81, into Al.
toon Wood park at Mamoroneek. TO
press his suit for her hand. The
bodies were found side by side. Hers
had . bullet through the heart and
his bullet through the brain. She
still clutched a bouquet OF spring
flowers they had gathered Rela-
iives and acquaintance said Miss
Dunn had refused Kane's pleas for
marriage time and time again. be-
cause he drank. although she "a
mittcd she loved him.
Vincent Laclardi, Is. painter in
doll factory. called Margaret Vio-
lenti, IL. into a hallway OF the fac
tory and begged her to elope with
him. When she told him she did
not love him, he whipped out pis.
tol and fired five shots. One pierced
her chin. He then turned the weapon
on himself but again his aim was
bad and he suffered only a flesh
wound in the cheek.
Bites Girls Cheek.
Michael Stanshefsky, 20, was hailed
into Yorkville magistrates court on
charge of annoying Margaret
Smith. a fellow factory worker. by
persistently asking her to marry
him.
Just before the case was called,
Stanshcfsky flew at the young wom-
an, seized her by the throat and bit
her cheek. He was sent to Bellevue
hospital for observation as TO his
sanity.
Two other attempts at suicide
one successful--in which the love
motive was not apparent. were res
ported
Mystery surrounds the death of
Vincent Morelli, Is, who died in
policeman's arms after he had been
wounded in pistol duel with two or
three other men. He is said to have
been involved in several bootlegger
fights.
In Harlem, Hugh Chambers shot
and seriously wounded Louis A. La
velle, attorney, and fed, woundlng
Patrolman Pohndorf who pursued
him, and finally captured him.
Body Is Bound.
The body Of Robert Gay. cashier
OF the Newton IN. J.) gas company,
who disappeared month ago. was
found and identified. Relatives said
he had been shell-shocked in France
and attributed his death to mental
upset brought on by the death OF
his mother.
/. Home-going crowds in Grand
street, in the lower east side were
thrown into a panic when three men
and two women fell wounded after
FIVE men suddenly drew pistols and
began shooting at one another. The
gunner began their battle within a
block Of police headquarters. All the
gunner except one escaped.
The police said the shooting ARRAY
grew out Of a murder eight months
ago, when street duel resulted in
the death OF the leader of band Of
bootleggers. The wounded are said
10 have rood chances for recovery.