GIRL’S HOPELESS LOVE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1201, 29 January 1914, Page 4

GIRL’S HOPELESS LOVE.

MURDER AND SUICIDE. “I killed him because I loved him so. If be was not lor me he should be for no other girl. My love lor him has tortured my lile - . My last request is that we may be buried together.” This was the dying statement of Miss Rose Piessmau, a pietty girl with a baby face, fair complexion, chestnut hair and a trim figure, as she lay in a New York hospital ward to which she had been removed after shooting a handsome young salesman named Nathan Chase. Miss Pressman had been a stenographer in the office of her uncle, Mr Peter Pressman, ol New York, where Chase, a steady, respectable young fellow, was also employe.:. The gin’s infatuation for him was known to everybody in her uncle’s firm, but the salesman, it is admitted, never encouraged her suit, and even a"m-Jed her. Her uncle frequently remonstrated with the girl for her lack ol reserve, and urged hen to forget Chi -e. “Can a girl forget she is alive K’she replied. Her love being spurned, the girl left her uncle’s firm, and did not reuiru until the evening of the tragedy. Chase was iu the office •.vht’ -he entered, and be bowed to her respectfully. Suddenly she drew iron her muff a revolver. W ithout a --. rd s..e pointed the weapon at Chase, and he turned to run. As he did so she fired twice. The first shot went wild, but the second struck Chase in the back of the head ana he tell to the floor unconscious. With a sob die girl turned ihe revolver upon herself and fried into be I .' brta ... It is believed that she cannot recover. ‘‘Now he’s _ ; don’t want to live,” she moaned.