The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-30
Takes One Last .
 Drink and Dies
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Letters left by Hartung indicated he had planned only to kill himself. but when Garrison and his wife. re- conciled, called for her cltohing he decided suddenly, it appeared. to kill the malso. He offered drinks to both, but only Mrs Garrison accept ed.
 | The romance which led to the tragedy began several months ago, police learned from Garrison and from Mir and Mrs B. M. Jones, friends who came with Garrison from Kalamazoo to help influence Mrs Garrison to give up Hartung, five years her junior.
 | Last March Garrison sent his wife to Miami, Fla, in the hope of break ing up the romance he knew was growing between her and Hartuns. ] In April, Mrs Garrison, who for merly lived in Chicago and Cleve- land, returned home, but she and Garrison quarrelled again over Hartung and she left on April IS. Garrison believed she would come to Chicago and asked several friends here to notify him should they see her.
 l Monday Mrs Charles E.. Foley called Garrison and told him she had heard from Mrs Garrison, who was living with Hartung at the hotel. l Garrison hurried to Chicago and met his wife at the Foley home. Af- l ter 30 minutes alone, they an- nounced that they had become re- conciled.
 | Mrs Jones accompanied Garrison and Mrs Garrison last night to the hotel to get Mrs Garrison's clothes. 1 Hartung extended 8 pleasant greeting when the trio entered his room. He made no comment when Garrison told proudly that Mrs Garrison was going home again. On a table were three pints of gin and the poison. Hartung had packed Mrs Garrison's three suit cases, which were on bed.
 Let us have one last drink" he pleaded of Mrs Garrison. She was willing, but Garrison disapproved and refused to accept the drink which Hartung mixed.
 l Hartung raised his glass, waited a moment until Mrs Garrison's s touched her lips, then drank. A lmoment later he fell, crying "1'm dying it was poison" Mrs Garri- son fell at his side, both at the feet | Of her husband.
 | In the room, police found letters written by Mrs Garrison to Harturg and others from him to her. In one. she called him "the sweetest boy I've ever met"
 One of Hartung's letters was ad- dressed to "the one I love-" It said:
 Angel, I can't go on after having you and realizing that you are leav- ing me. It is too much for my poor brain. Why must I live like ours be separated? If 1t were only possible fore me to have taken you away. Please understand that my love for you has become such part of me that to be even away from you just drives me crazy.
 'I would rather be dead than away from you. My love for you Is deep. I want you to know that the last thought shall be of you. The last word shall be have loved you. After all, darling, we must most pleasant, after all. May God bless you, sweetheart, and give you love to carry one."
 Police believed from this letter that Mrs Garrison had communicat- ed with Hartung Wednesday and that it was not news to him when Garrison told him proudly last night; everything is settled now; Kathleen is going home with me-"
 They believed too that Hartune had planned only to kill himself and that the idea of killing Mes Garrison as well, and possibly hel husband, was an insane impulse which came to him when he saw his
 former sweetheart with her hus-
 band and knew instinctively from
 their actions that he really had los ,I her.