NEWS BLURBS
scans from newspaper collection
of
Ruth
Adams-Battle
transcribed by Dorothy
Wiland
Last Letter of
Missing Woman.
__________
Robert Hall Receives
a Letter From Rose Miller,
the Supposed Suicide,
in Which He is Told
She Has Left her Sister's
Home.
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| Dear Rob–I have
left my sister's. Don't write. You will hear from me later. –Rose |
| By the
disclosure of the foregoing note, a
further element of mystery has been added to the prolonged absence from
her home of Rose Miller, the supposed suicide, of 301 West McMicken
avenue,
whose hat, neck ribbon and hat-pin, found in the Suspension bridge last
Thursday, have been positively identified by her sisters, Mrs. Lena
Richter
and Mrs. August Schaefer. When a Times-Star reporter called at
the
home of Mrs. Richter Monday morning, the heart=broken sisters told the
reporter they were certain that the girl had sought death in the Ohio
because
of a love affair. The two sisters said a man named Robert Hall
had
steadily called on Miss Miller since last September "Rose mailed a
letter,"
said her sister, Mrs. Richter, "just before she walked onto the bridge
from the Covington side. She walked from the Cincinnati side to
the
Covington side, there mailed a letter, then walked back on the bridge
and
we are very certain that, after taking off her hate, tie and hat pin,
she
jumped into the river. Now, that letter she mailed on Thursday
night
was not received by any member of the family. It was written, we
believe, to Robert Hall, whose failure to visit her for the last two
weeks
made her down hearted." Mrs. Richter told the reporter than every effort of the family to locate Hall was futile. Late Monday a Times-Star reporter located him, and he was asked to go to 301 West McMicken avenue Monday night, and explain the contents of a letter he had received from Rose Miller Friday morning. On Tuesday morning Hall was interviewed by a Times-Star reporter and said he had explained all to the sisters of the girl. Hall is a painter. "I know nothing of the whereabouts of Rose Miller," he said to a Times-Star reporter. "I liked the young woman. I got my last letter from her Friday night at 1524 Vine street, where I get mail. The letter simply said: "I have left my sisters. Don't write. You will hear from me lager." I thought it was a peculiar letter, as it told me not to write, and didn't mention any address where I could write, if I wanted to. I thought it such a strange letter that I spoke of its conents(sic) to William Kunkel, a friend of mine in the shop." "Were you a friend of Rose Miller's?" "I was a friend of Rose Millers," said Hall. |
