Norwich bulletin., 1922-05-09
LOVE AFFAIRS LED. TO
 SIX SUICIDES IN NEW YORK

New York, May S.-Romance ar S tragedy. walking hand in hand throl sN the metropolitan area today, left in the wake the longest list of violence and suicide the city has known in many months. Seven persons in hospitals six bodies in morgues-and the story in nearly every case one of unrequited love.
 Dr. Alfred H. Riedel, eye specialist who had long been infatuated with a Broadway chorus girl, poisoned himself for her love today, dying with an im- provised spotlight glaring on his face. At Manaroneck. John C.. Kane, Jr.. S4, went with his school teacher sweetheart Elizabeth Dunn. 32, into Alton Wood park. Their bodies were found side by side. hers with bullet through the heart and his with bullet through the brain Relatives and acquaintances said Miss Dunn had refused Kane's pleas for mar | riage time and time again, becaus he drank-although she admitted she loved him.
 Vincent Laclardi, IS, painter in a doll ! factory in West Houston street. called Margaret Violanti. IT, into a hallway of | the factory and begged her to elope with him to Pittsburgh When she declined pierced her chin. He then turned the l 1 flesh wound n5the cheek.
 Michael Stanshefky. 20. was haIed into | Yorkviile magistrates court on a charge of annoying Margaret Smith, fellow factory worker by persistently asking her to marry him. Just before the case was called Stanshefky seized her by the throat and bit her cheek He was sent to Bellevue hospital for observation. 1 Mrs, Constance F. Marvin was found i,,ao hot J,n- L l Vernon. She left a note expressing hope that she would find divine forgiveness for her, act.
 l Miss Edith Buchanan, 42, who recently suffered a nervous breakdown, was found in her room at local hotel suffering from poisoning. She was rushed to 3 hospital, where it was said she had fair ischancc for recovery. She said she took the poison by mistake
 Mystery surrounds the death of Yin cent Moreili, 25, who died in a police mans arms after he had been wounded in pistol duel with two or three other men. He was Killed by a charge from a sawed-off shotgun, after he had emptied his pistol at his assailants. He is said to have been involved in several recent bootlegger fights.
 Tn Harlem, Hugh Chambers negro, shot and seriously wounded Louis A. La-
 
 fled, wounding Patrolman Pohnderf and finally was captured as a crowd of ne- groes closed in, shouting Lynch him !"
 The body of Robert Gay. cashier of the Newton, N. j., Gas company, who
 disappeared a month ago. was f1shed out \ of West Chester creek near Pelham Bay and Identified.
 Theodore Budnici. held at B1idgeton N. J., on acharge of kilIng Eiezar Han-
 kins last Saturday, today declared he ex-
 pected to be executed.
 Budnick said he went to Hankins' slcI
 to warn him to stop going with Mrs Budnick. While they were talking Mrs
 Budnick appeared on the street and Bud. , nick stated, Hankins waved to her. That got me, Budnick declared. q said MT l Hanklns. you took my wife; you can take this and I fred"
 : Two men were arraigned before Su I.j preme Court Justice Parker in Hacl1en . sack today, each charged with a double t murder.
 r One was Martin Ehlers, 2s, who gay,
 himself up recently after shooting ant : killing his wife and year o.d son ii ' Woodbridge. Ehlers pleaded not guilt, n and his trial was set for a week iron g next Thursday.
 ! The other was Horace Porter. 22 year old, coiored, charged with having killed his sweetheart, Mamie Anthonyson. an, s John Hicks, whom he considered hi s rival, at the home of his sweetheart il a \ Hackensack, He pleaded not guilty an, T his trial was set for next Monday. y Homegoing crowds in Grand street. il -- the lower East Side, were thrown into n panic late today as three men and tw g women fell wounded when five men sud n denly drew pistols and began shooting a
 each other. The gunmen began thei | battle within a block of police headquar
 terss and all but one escaped
 The police, after questioning thei
 prisoner, said that the shooting affra grew out of murder eight months az
 when street duel resulted in the deat n of the leader of a band of bootlegger y The wounded are said to have goo le chances for recovery.
 d After firing two shots at his wife fo 1t lowing quarrel when he came home f lg Unionhill, N. J., tonight, Joseph Rasals 'n kobico shot himself in the head. He m not expected to live. The mans vii
 saved herself by throwing bowl of fell IT into his face and fled before he could fl CT a third time.