MRS. INGERSOLL SHOOTS FRIEND AND COMMITS SUICIDE AFTER ALTERCATION IN APARTMENT
Watch Maker's Wife Is Well Known In Greenville.
The following dispatch from New York tells of the suicidal death o£ Mrs. R. H. Ingersoll, well known in Greenville where she visited her relatives until about seven years ago: Mrs. R. H. Ingersoll, 58, wife of R. H. Ingersoll, watch manufacturer, was found dead today in her apartment in Park ave. with a bullet wound in her heart. Wallace Probasco, 50, found in the same apartment with four bullet wounds in his body, is in Bellevue hospital, Probasco lives at the Hotel Pennsylvania,' where Ingersoll, separated from his wife, also lives. The police reports says Mrs. Ingersoll shot Probasco and then her-self after Probasco refused to continue their friendship. They report an apparently interrupted note in Mrs. Ingersoll's handwriting, addressed to Probasco, was found in the apartment. The note began:
"It has all been such a mistake.' Lover Is Arrested Probasco was placed under police custody at the hospital. The police say that Probasco telephoned his wife, Mrs. Maud Probasco, from whom he is separated, and that on her arrival at the apartment she found her husband on the floor by the telephone and Mrs. Ingersoll's body in another room.
Probasco's account of the shooting, as reported by the police, is that there was an altercation between him and Mrs. Ingersoll, that Mrs. Ingersoll left the room ostensibly to bring him his hat and coat, but appeared with a pistol and fired at once. Probasco was struck once in the chest, twice in the side and once in the arm. Ha lost consciousness before being taken from the house.
Relates Phone Parley Mrs. Probasco, who lives in the Gramercy Park section, said her husband called excitedly over the telephone, saying,, "Maude! Come quickly!" "Where are you?" she asked. "At 55 Park ave. Mrs. Probasco said she went at once, forced the door of the apartment and discovered what had happened.
Probasco is director and general manager of the New Century Color Plate company of this city. Mrs. Probasco was Miss Maude Ingersoll, daughter of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, the celebrated agnostic. Their wedding in 1912 was one of the outstanding social events of the season. Mrs. Ingersoll was Miss Edith Maria Bannister of Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Ingersolls were married in 1904.
BODY OF MRS. 1NGERS0LL WILL BE BROUGHT TO GREENVILLE FOR BURIAL
The body of Mrs. R. H. Ingersoll,
of New York, will be brought here
Thursday for burial at Forest
Home cemetery, Friday. Mrs. Ingersoll shot herself Sunday after
seriously wounding Wallace Pronasco following an altercation.
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MRS. 1NGERS0LL TO BE HELD FRIDAY AFTERN00N
The funeral service for Mrs. R H. Ingersoll of New York will held Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Clare Lindquist in this city. The remains were to arrive in Greenville today. Rev. S. C. Parsons will conduct the service which will be strictly private for family. Burial will be made in Forest Home cemetery here. The body was accompanied by the husband, R. H. Ingersoll and a nephew, Ellis A. Nolan.
Watch Maker's Wife Is Well Known In Greenville.
The following dispatch from New York tells of the suicidal death o£ Mrs. R. H. Ingersoll, well known in Greenville where she visited her relatives until about seven years ago: Mrs. R. H. Ingersoll, 58, wife of R. H. Ingersoll, watch manufacturer, was found dead today in her apartment in Park ave. with a bullet wound in her heart. Wallace Probasco, 50, found in the same apartment with four bullet wounds in his body, is in Bellevue hospital, Probasco lives at the Hotel Pennsylvania,' where Ingersoll, separated from his wife, also lives. The police reports says Mrs. Ingersoll shot Probasco and then her-self after Probasco refused to continue their friendship. They report an apparently interrupted note in Mrs. Ingersoll's handwriting, addressed to Probasco, was found in the apartment. The note began:
"It has all been such a mistake.' Lover Is Arrested Probasco was placed under police custody at the hospital. The police say that Probasco telephoned his wife, Mrs. Maud Probasco, from whom he is separated, and that on her arrival at the apartment she found her husband on the floor by the telephone and Mrs. Ingersoll's body in another room.
Probasco's account of the shooting, as reported by the police, is that there was an altercation between him and Mrs. Ingersoll, that Mrs. Ingersoll left the room ostensibly to bring him his hat and coat, but appeared with a pistol and fired at once. Probasco was struck once in the chest, twice in the side and once in the arm. Ha lost consciousness before being taken from the house.
Relates Phone Parley Mrs. Probasco, who lives in the Gramercy Park section, said her husband called excitedly over the telephone, saying,, "Maude! Come quickly!" "Where are you?" she asked. "At 55 Park ave. Mrs. Probasco said she went at once, forced the door of the apartment and discovered what had happened.
Probasco is director and general manager of the New Century Color Plate company of this city. Mrs. Probasco was Miss Maude Ingersoll, daughter of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, the celebrated agnostic. Their wedding in 1912 was one of the outstanding social events of the season. Mrs. Ingersoll was Miss Edith Maria Bannister of Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Ingersolls were married in 1904.
BODY OF MRS. 1NGERS0LL WILL BE BROUGHT TO GREENVILLE FOR BURIAL
The body of Mrs. R. H. Ingersoll,
of New York, will be brought here
Thursday for burial at Forest
Home cemetery, Friday. Mrs. Ingersoll shot herself Sunday after
seriously wounding Wallace Pronasco following an altercation.
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MRS. 1NGERS0LL TO BE HELD FRIDAY AFTERN00N
The funeral service for Mrs. R H. Ingersoll of New York will held Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Clare Lindquist in this city. The remains were to arrive in Greenville today. Rev. S. C. Parsons will conduct the service which will be strictly private for family. Burial will be made in Forest Home cemetery here. The body was accompanied by the husband, R. H. Ingersoll and a nephew, Ellis A. Nolan.
MRS. INGERSOLL SHOOTS FRIEND AND COMMITS SUICIDE AFTER ALTERCATION IN APARTMENT
Watch Maker's Wife Is Well Known In Greenville.
The following dispatch from New York tells of the suicidal death o£ Mrs. R. H. Ingersoll, well known in Greenville where she visited her relatives until about seven years ago: Mrs. R. H. Ingersoll, 58, wife of R. H. Ingersoll, watch manufacturer, was found dead today in her apartment in Park ave. with a bullet wound in her heart. Wallace Probasco, 50, found in the same apartment with four bullet wounds in his body, is in Bellevue hospital, Probasco lives at the Hotel Pennsylvania,' where Ingersoll, separated from his wife, also lives. The police reports says Mrs. Ingersoll shot Probasco and then her-self after Probasco refused to continue their friendship. They report an apparently interrupted note in Mrs. Ingersoll's handwriting, addressed to Probasco, was found in the apartment. The note began:
"It has all been such a mistake.' Lover Is Arrested Probasco was placed under police custody at the hospital. The police say that Probasco telephoned his wife, Mrs. Maud Probasco, from whom he is separated, and that on her arrival at the apartment she found her husband on the floor by the telephone and Mrs. Ingersoll's body in another room.
Probasco's account of the shooting, as reported by the police, is that there was an altercation between him and Mrs. Ingersoll, that Mrs. Ingersoll left the room ostensibly to bring him his hat and coat, but appeared with a pistol and fired at once. Probasco was struck once in the chest, twice in the side and once in the arm. Ha lost consciousness before being taken from the house.
Relates Phone Parley Mrs. Probasco, who lives in the Gramercy Park section, said her husband called excitedly over the telephone, saying,, "Maude! Come quickly!" "Where are you?" she asked. "At 55 Park ave. Mrs. Probasco said she went at once, forced the door of the apartment and discovered what had happened.
Probasco is director and general manager of the New Century Color Plate company of this city. Mrs. Probasco was Miss Maude Ingersoll, daughter of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, the celebrated agnostic. Their wedding in 1912 was one of the outstanding social events of the season. Mrs. Ingersoll was Miss Edith Maria Bannister of Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Ingersolls were married in 1904.
BODY OF MRS. 1NGERS0LL WILL BE BROUGHT TO GREENVILLE FOR BURIAL
The body of Mrs. R. H. Ingersoll,
of New York, will be brought here
Thursday for burial at Forest
Home cemetery, Friday. Mrs. Ingersoll shot herself Sunday after
seriously wounding Wallace Pronasco following an altercation.
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MRS. 1NGERS0LL TO BE HELD FRIDAY AFTERN00N
The funeral service for Mrs. R H. Ingersoll of New York will held Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Clare Lindquist in this city. The remains were to arrive in Greenville today. Rev. S. C. Parsons will conduct the service which will be strictly private for family. Burial will be made in Forest Home cemetery here. The body was accompanied by the husband, R. H. Ingersoll and a nephew, Ellis A. Nolan.
Watch Maker's Wife Is Well Known In Greenville.
The following dispatch from New York tells of the suicidal death o£ Mrs. R. H. Ingersoll, well known in Greenville where she visited her relatives until about seven years ago: Mrs. R. H. Ingersoll, 58, wife of R. H. Ingersoll, watch manufacturer, was found dead today in her apartment in Park ave. with a bullet wound in her heart. Wallace Probasco, 50, found in the same apartment with four bullet wounds in his body, is in Bellevue hospital, Probasco lives at the Hotel Pennsylvania,' where Ingersoll, separated from his wife, also lives. The police reports says Mrs. Ingersoll shot Probasco and then her-self after Probasco refused to continue their friendship. They report an apparently interrupted note in Mrs. Ingersoll's handwriting, addressed to Probasco, was found in the apartment. The note began:
"It has all been such a mistake.' Lover Is Arrested Probasco was placed under police custody at the hospital. The police say that Probasco telephoned his wife, Mrs. Maud Probasco, from whom he is separated, and that on her arrival at the apartment she found her husband on the floor by the telephone and Mrs. Ingersoll's body in another room.
Probasco's account of the shooting, as reported by the police, is that there was an altercation between him and Mrs. Ingersoll, that Mrs. Ingersoll left the room ostensibly to bring him his hat and coat, but appeared with a pistol and fired at once. Probasco was struck once in the chest, twice in the side and once in the arm. Ha lost consciousness before being taken from the house.
Relates Phone Parley Mrs. Probasco, who lives in the Gramercy Park section, said her husband called excitedly over the telephone, saying,, "Maude! Come quickly!" "Where are you?" she asked. "At 55 Park ave. Mrs. Probasco said she went at once, forced the door of the apartment and discovered what had happened.
Probasco is director and general manager of the New Century Color Plate company of this city. Mrs. Probasco was Miss Maude Ingersoll, daughter of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, the celebrated agnostic. Their wedding in 1912 was one of the outstanding social events of the season. Mrs. Ingersoll was Miss Edith Maria Bannister of Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Ingersolls were married in 1904.
BODY OF MRS. 1NGERS0LL WILL BE BROUGHT TO GREENVILLE FOR BURIAL
The body of Mrs. R. H. Ingersoll,
of New York, will be brought here
Thursday for burial at Forest
Home cemetery, Friday. Mrs. Ingersoll shot herself Sunday after
seriously wounding Wallace Pronasco following an altercation.
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MRS. 1NGERS0LL TO BE HELD FRIDAY AFTERN00N
The funeral service for Mrs. R H. Ingersoll of New York will held Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Clare Lindquist in this city. The remains were to arrive in Greenville today. Rev. S. C. Parsons will conduct the service which will be strictly private for family. Burial will be made in Forest Home cemetery here. The body was accompanied by the husband, R. H. Ingersoll and a nephew, Ellis A. Nolan.
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