EHLE ALLEN'S DEATH
HE SUICIDES RATHER THAN FACE THE BAR OF JUSTICE.
Last Chapter in the St. Paul Tragedy of Two Weeks Ago—The Slayer of John M. [sic] Clapp Takes His Own Life at Lake Minnetonka—A Pathetic Note Left for His Mother—A Query as to His Sanity—The Young Woman Who is Responsible for the Loss of Two Lives Has an Attack of Hysterics Upon Hearing the News of Her Lover's Suicide—Full Details of the Tragedy.
Ehle Allen will never be called before the bar of justice to answer for the life he took in St. Paul two weeks ago yesterday. The slayer of John H. Clapp added another chapter to the tragedy yesterday morning my committing suicide.
The scene of the suicide was the little cottage at Linwood belonging to Mrs. Holtz, which has stood beside the tracks of the Minneapolis and St. Louis road for many years and become an old landmark in the minds of lake residents. In the early morning hours Allen stole away to this quiet little cottage, and within a stone's throw of his father's cottage, he took his own life.
News of the suicide was at once telegraphed to his father at St. Paul, who went to the lake on the 9:30 train, as did also Coroner Spring and a representative of THE TRIBUNE. When found the body was lying on a cot, over the pillow of which blood had flown profusely. The dead man's left hand lay across his hips and still clung to a 38-caliber Smith & Wesson revolver, in which three shells had been placed, the middle one being discharged. The ball entered the left side of the head, just above the ear, coming out on the opposite side, from which blood had flown in large quantities.
PATHETIC NOTES.
on a table beside the cot, written in lead pencil on paper from the Merchants Hotel, St. Paul, was found the following pathetic note written to his mother:
"Mother, Only Mother—I cannot sleep. I awoke last night. I was sitting upright in bed asking forgiveness. God and myself knows it was not intended, but the world does not. I have disgraced you all. Goodbye.
"EHLE"
"I kissed you in your sleep."
Before being shown the above note Mrs. Allen stated that she had dreamed that Ehle had come to her bed in the morning and kissed her while sleeping, and now she realizes that it was the last caress of a desperate, heart-broken son.
The following note was evidently intended for both his father and mother:
"Never was a father and mother more indulgent. My home has always been heaven, but now I have disgraced it all. The thousand thoughts, never experienced before, drive me mad. I can stand it no longer. These feelings make me almost wild. Death is preferable. Forgive and then forget."
"EHLE"
[The remainder of the long article contains a description of the cottage and the scene; Ehle's movements and state of mind between the murder and his suicide; his state of mind prior to the murder; the reaction of Lulu Leyde, the young woman involved, when she heard of Ehle's death; a funeral notice; an account of Ehle's earlier life; and an account of the murder itself.]
Source: Star Tribune, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 7 Jul 1894, Page 5
HE SUICIDES RATHER THAN FACE THE BAR OF JUSTICE.
Last Chapter in the St. Paul Tragedy of Two Weeks Ago—The Slayer of John M. [sic] Clapp Takes His Own Life at Lake Minnetonka—A Pathetic Note Left for His Mother—A Query as to His Sanity—The Young Woman Who is Responsible for the Loss of Two Lives Has an Attack of Hysterics Upon Hearing the News of Her Lover's Suicide—Full Details of the Tragedy.
Ehle Allen will never be called before the bar of justice to answer for the life he took in St. Paul two weeks ago yesterday. The slayer of John H. Clapp added another chapter to the tragedy yesterday morning my committing suicide.
The scene of the suicide was the little cottage at Linwood belonging to Mrs. Holtz, which has stood beside the tracks of the Minneapolis and St. Louis road for many years and become an old landmark in the minds of lake residents. In the early morning hours Allen stole away to this quiet little cottage, and within a stone's throw of his father's cottage, he took his own life.
News of the suicide was at once telegraphed to his father at St. Paul, who went to the lake on the 9:30 train, as did also Coroner Spring and a representative of THE TRIBUNE. When found the body was lying on a cot, over the pillow of which blood had flown profusely. The dead man's left hand lay across his hips and still clung to a 38-caliber Smith & Wesson revolver, in which three shells had been placed, the middle one being discharged. The ball entered the left side of the head, just above the ear, coming out on the opposite side, from which blood had flown in large quantities.
PATHETIC NOTES.
on a table beside the cot, written in lead pencil on paper from the Merchants Hotel, St. Paul, was found the following pathetic note written to his mother:
"Mother, Only Mother—I cannot sleep. I awoke last night. I was sitting upright in bed asking forgiveness. God and myself knows it was not intended, but the world does not. I have disgraced you all. Goodbye.
"EHLE"
"I kissed you in your sleep."
Before being shown the above note Mrs. Allen stated that she had dreamed that Ehle had come to her bed in the morning and kissed her while sleeping, and now she realizes that it was the last caress of a desperate, heart-broken son.
The following note was evidently intended for both his father and mother:
"Never was a father and mother more indulgent. My home has always been heaven, but now I have disgraced it all. The thousand thoughts, never experienced before, drive me mad. I can stand it no longer. These feelings make me almost wild. Death is preferable. Forgive and then forget."
"EHLE"
[The remainder of the long article contains a description of the cottage and the scene; Ehle's movements and state of mind between the murder and his suicide; his state of mind prior to the murder; the reaction of Lulu Leyde, the young woman involved, when she heard of Ehle's death; a funeral notice; an account of Ehle's earlier life; and an account of the murder itself.]
Source: Star Tribune, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 7 Jul 1894, Page 5
EHLE ALLEN'S DEATH
HE SUICIDES RATHER THAN FACE THE BAR OF JUSTICE.
Last Chapter in the St. Paul Tragedy of Two Weeks Ago—The Slayer of John M. [sic] Clapp Takes His Own Life at Lake Minnetonka—A Pathetic Note Left for His Mother—A Query as to His Sanity—The Young Woman Who is Responsible for the Loss of Two Lives Has an Attack of Hysterics Upon Hearing the News of Her Lover's Suicide—Full Details of the Tragedy.
Ehle Allen will never be called before the bar of justice to answer for the life he took in St. Paul two weeks ago yesterday. The slayer of John H. Clapp added another chapter to the tragedy yesterday morning my committing suicide.
The scene of the suicide was the little cottage at Linwood belonging to Mrs. Holtz, which has stood beside the tracks of the Minneapolis and St. Louis road for many years and become an old landmark in the minds of lake residents. In the early morning hours Allen stole away to this quiet little cottage, and within a stone's throw of his father's cottage, he took his own life.
News of the suicide was at once telegraphed to his father at St. Paul, who went to the lake on the 9:30 train, as did also Coroner Spring and a representative of THE TRIBUNE. When found the body was lying on a cot, over the pillow of which blood had flown profusely. The dead man's left hand lay across his hips and still clung to a 38-caliber Smith & Wesson revolver, in which three shells had been placed, the middle one being discharged. The ball entered the left side of the head, just above the ear, coming out on the opposite side, from which blood had flown in large quantities.
PATHETIC NOTES.
on a table beside the cot, written in lead pencil on paper from the Merchants Hotel, St. Paul, was found the following pathetic note written to his mother:
"Mother, Only Mother—I cannot sleep. I awoke last night. I was sitting upright in bed asking forgiveness. God and myself knows it was not intended, but the world does not. I have disgraced you all. Goodbye.
"EHLE"
"I kissed you in your sleep."
Before being shown the above note Mrs. Allen stated that she had dreamed that Ehle had come to her bed in the morning and kissed her while sleeping, and now she realizes that it was the last caress of a desperate, heart-broken son.
The following note was evidently intended for both his father and mother:
"Never was a father and mother more indulgent. My home has always been heaven, but now I have disgraced it all. The thousand thoughts, never experienced before, drive me mad. I can stand it no longer. These feelings make me almost wild. Death is preferable. Forgive and then forget."
"EHLE"
[The remainder of the long article contains a description of the cottage and the scene; Ehle's movements and state of mind between the murder and his suicide; his state of mind prior to the murder; the reaction of Lulu Leyde, the young woman involved, when she heard of Ehle's death; a funeral notice; an account of Ehle's earlier life; and an account of the murder itself.]
Source: Star Tribune, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 7 Jul 1894, Page 5
HE SUICIDES RATHER THAN FACE THE BAR OF JUSTICE.
Last Chapter in the St. Paul Tragedy of Two Weeks Ago—The Slayer of John M. [sic] Clapp Takes His Own Life at Lake Minnetonka—A Pathetic Note Left for His Mother—A Query as to His Sanity—The Young Woman Who is Responsible for the Loss of Two Lives Has an Attack of Hysterics Upon Hearing the News of Her Lover's Suicide—Full Details of the Tragedy.
Ehle Allen will never be called before the bar of justice to answer for the life he took in St. Paul two weeks ago yesterday. The slayer of John H. Clapp added another chapter to the tragedy yesterday morning my committing suicide.
The scene of the suicide was the little cottage at Linwood belonging to Mrs. Holtz, which has stood beside the tracks of the Minneapolis and St. Louis road for many years and become an old landmark in the minds of lake residents. In the early morning hours Allen stole away to this quiet little cottage, and within a stone's throw of his father's cottage, he took his own life.
News of the suicide was at once telegraphed to his father at St. Paul, who went to the lake on the 9:30 train, as did also Coroner Spring and a representative of THE TRIBUNE. When found the body was lying on a cot, over the pillow of which blood had flown profusely. The dead man's left hand lay across his hips and still clung to a 38-caliber Smith & Wesson revolver, in which three shells had been placed, the middle one being discharged. The ball entered the left side of the head, just above the ear, coming out on the opposite side, from which blood had flown in large quantities.
PATHETIC NOTES.
on a table beside the cot, written in lead pencil on paper from the Merchants Hotel, St. Paul, was found the following pathetic note written to his mother:
"Mother, Only Mother—I cannot sleep. I awoke last night. I was sitting upright in bed asking forgiveness. God and myself knows it was not intended, but the world does not. I have disgraced you all. Goodbye.
"EHLE"
"I kissed you in your sleep."
Before being shown the above note Mrs. Allen stated that she had dreamed that Ehle had come to her bed in the morning and kissed her while sleeping, and now she realizes that it was the last caress of a desperate, heart-broken son.
The following note was evidently intended for both his father and mother:
"Never was a father and mother more indulgent. My home has always been heaven, but now I have disgraced it all. The thousand thoughts, never experienced before, drive me mad. I can stand it no longer. These feelings make me almost wild. Death is preferable. Forgive and then forget."
"EHLE"
[The remainder of the long article contains a description of the cottage and the scene; Ehle's movements and state of mind between the murder and his suicide; his state of mind prior to the murder; the reaction of Lulu Leyde, the young woman involved, when she heard of Ehle's death; a funeral notice; an account of Ehle's earlier life; and an account of the murder itself.]
Source: Star Tribune, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 7 Jul 1894, Page 5
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