Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-10-07 | Page 1 | American Author Leaps to Death after Killing Private Secretary

American Author leaps leaps' S to Death After Killing te Secretary BERLIN Oct 7 AP AP Herman Herman George American au author author author au- au thor and critic committed suicide in his his Berlin home today after stabbing and instantly killing his private secretary who was a a n native liv of ofSan ofSan ofSan San Francisco but had lived abroad for many years cut u the arteries In Iii both wrists and rind then plunged froma from from- a window The account of the double tragedy states that stabbed his year old secretary Katherine Katharine von Meyer to death with witha 1 a carving knife then cut his own throat it at and leaped prom from from-a a third story window of or his nome home He Ie died on the way t the hospital The library which was the scene of the killing killing gave gave evidence eviden e o of U h i sanguinary batt batte e The bodies of both victims both victims victims' were were- mutilated with stabs and and I cuts Police pollee were unable to assign n a for the tragedy