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Show DID MAN OF MANY LOVES FALL f I VICTIM OF A WOMAN SCORNED? . 4 i' l BY MARGERY REX. (Written for International News Sorvlca.) NEW YORK, May 29. What prompt-ed prompt-ed the murder of Frederick E. Rueck-crt, Rueck-crt, vice president of the White Metal company, slain in his apartment in Ho-boken, Ho-boken, N. J.? Reuckort'B lifo was beliovcd by I most of his friends to be the proBaic existence of an ordinary young business busi-ness man, successful to a high degree, 'caring only for the ordinary amuse-1 amuse-1 ments. But now it Is known that tho ! wpalthv "nllpn" fnllrm'p! rlpvinns courses, giving weird entertainments in his rooms that excited comment. His wan a dual existence; even more than that t He had ongaged himself to two1 'young women and this relationship existed at the same time that he was proposing marrlago to a third. Lived Dual Life. His death is still a mystery. But oven stranger than the circumstances of his sudden eud arc the facts of his life, revealed only since he died. Living, Reuckert led two separate and distinct existences of which wo aro aware. Dead Reuckert no longer could by strategy, keep apart th facts and the personnel of his various interests. Those who played both comedy and tragedy roles in their relation rela-tion to him are now bound logethor by tho Interest and investigation of his murdor. Thus there is a bond between the two fiancees silent, sorrowing Clara Vorrath. of Hoboken, nnd self-possessed Mae Trask of Manhattan, who tells little of Reuckert and loss of horsclf. We know thut the other young I woman, Martha Sachs, to whom I Reuckert tried to make love, was moro 'cautious than his other two victims. She declared his attentions unwelcome "because he was engaged to another girl." 1 Reuckert was a philanderer. There ! probnblv wore other women in his life. ! The throe we know about are above nuspicion. Is it possible (hat some one woman, unidentified at present, could be responsible, re-sponsible, directly or indirectly, for tho death of the wealthy Jerscyman? Had Secret of Industry. Tho manufacturer had amassed a fortune from his sale of collapsible metal tubes. Reuckert alone had in this country the secret of making these containers. Labels on your tube of toothpaste, cold cream, liquid soap or liniment tell you that the content's, owing to tho peculiar pe-culiar construction of the metal packet, pac-ket, cannot spoil under any such conditions con-ditions as. heat or cold, dampness or dry air. Even time cannot affect volatile substances thus encased. But what is more volatllo than the human heart the fomiulne heart? Yet Rueckcrt treated them carolessly onough. Tholr circlo of fnends in wouoicen believed M,iss Vorjath and Rueckert engaged. Tho matter was understood to be definitely settled. Misunderstandings Misunder-standings when they occurred wera not taken seriously by their associates who approved highly of the approaching approach-ing marriage. Miss Vorrath 1b a quiet, retiring young woman, Just the type such a man as Rueckert, after a life of philandering, philander-ing, would fiually choose for his wife. Rueckert has been ongaged to Miss Vorrath for a long time, but the troth was brokon off some months ago. However, How-ever, it was rumored thoy had made up lately and would marry. The girl has porsistently refused to discuss tho affair, and has shut herself up with her grief. Not so retiring is Miss Mao Trask, also engaged to Rueckert, no she says. Miss Trask'a connection with the case ,was revealed by someone who telephoned tele-phoned tho Rueckort apartment on the morning aftor the murdor, saying Mao Trask's picture could bo found In n certain dresser drawer. Mae Trask, who tells of gay entertain-ments entertain-ments in the Hobokon apartment, is n fashionable young woman of modern tendencies. Sho hnB been connected with various charitable enterprises and war work. .larinti Sachs, latoly discovered as1 tho third girl in the cane, refused to take seriously Rueokert's talk of love. She declared hor friendship ended when she learned he already had a fiancee. fi-ancee. Threo Tell Experiences. All throe of the young women say Rueckort was attontivo to them, al ways respectful in his attitude and talked of marriage constantly. He called Miss Vorrath his "real sweetheart" when talking to friends, but their engagements seem to have vMm been punctuated with the periods of his other attachments. From a financial standpoint Rueck ert might have been considered a "good catch." But unhappiness would await any woman who married him. Love is fleeting. Sometimes Its place Is taken by disgust, hate, Tesent-ment Tesent-ment or distrust of other men, after a lfl woman nncfl harl hppn rlppAlvart 1 1 Chemical dissolutions . produce a rancid state in tho type of articles now protected by Rueckerfs tubes. And the dissolution of affection pro- IH duces the unlovely state known as IH rancor. "Rancid" and "rancor" aTe both de-rived de-rived from ihe same Latin root, ' Strange that Rueckert, who knew so well how to prevent the one state, 1 should have beon overcome finally by the other. |
