MURDER AND SUICIDE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8875, 27 July 1907, Page 4

MURDER AND SUICIDE.

i Kew Yoke, Juno 24. ( ; • A tragedy, of which the central i I figure is a heantifnl woman bravely • striving to earn subsistence for herself and her nine-year-old son, culminated at Pittsburg yesterday m a double murder and suicide. The innocent causejof the terrible drama is Mrs F. J. Vortish, Jwho, when her husband lost his employment six 1 months ago, opened a boardinghouse 1 for young men. The cnterpr.se was eminently susccessful until tl?reo ot the lodgers became infatuated with their charming and strikingly beautiful landlady. At first she treated as a joke suggestions of elopement which the youths addressed to tier, explaining to them that she was old enough to be their mother, and that, I though her husband was' absent, she ; dearly loved him. But three of the I suitors were in deadly earnest, and soon the pleasant boardinghouse was converted into a den of brooding jealousy. The situation was growing intolerable, when, three days ago, she received a letter from her husband saying that he had obtained employment in Now York. one started at once to rejoin him. As soon as her absence was discovered, Patrick Reardon, the youngest ot the infatuated trio, passionately accused the other.two of being secretly cognisant of her whereabouts. They Pad not time to affirm their ignorance before the maddened youth pulled out a revolver and mortally wounded both. Then, running to his bedroom, Reardon wrote a letter to Ins “parents, declaring that he could not live without his landlady, , and put a bullet through his brain.