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Show TODAY'S TELEGRAMS. j.oii ivrif smiim:. Two .over siarl Toceluer Tar Efernlljr. N-v YonrScpL IS. A strange double sulciue occurred here at day. bnak this morning. At Uiat heur, Gustavo G. Koch, a well known crayon artist, ascended the ste to the Canal btrtct ttatinti of the Fourth Avenuo elevated road, walked to a point In trout of Uie sivoud slory window or No. 140 CinalStreet nodded and said: "Yes, I liae come, Emily. Are- Jon ready?" Answer not lienrJ, but Koch drew a revolver from his IkKket, and shot hlm'clf Iu the head, d ing instantly. As he fell theru ume. what ccemcJ au echo of hts shot from a direction direc-tion of thu window towards I which hu had looked, and in n few minutes a messenger camu running, raying that a woman had shot her self at 1) Canal fclrvet. Invesiigs lion revealed the fact that Emily lto-sl, actre, aged 19, lay a con in the bed In her room, with a lail- let In tier heart. She was attired In a night rolre, with a t'Uiicn.o! hello-troties hello-troties pinned to her Isxom. It was evident that shehad bared her bosom for the fatal shot, for her garment revealed nothing to show the cause of her death except a little red rfot over the. heart. .not a unof ov iiljod had llowrd from the wound. Thu death evidently was as instantaneous as In case or Koch. It was evidently prearranged prear-ranged that they should take tiuiu-seives tiuiu-seives oat of this world together. The girl evidently had made every prcjaratlon for thu ecnL Un a cliairby the w iudow Jay Inn lothing, carefully smoothed out. She had U-cn wrltiug and the table- was envend with small sheets of pa)r, filled Willi her thoughts as she sat waiting. Her liaud waa a neat feminine onu and did not ap ear In the least tremulous. They were lovers, rhecausfjof thetraicedv b supposed to be the opposition ol the giriV mother to their marriage. Ernily Itosi has been on Uie stage since her babyhood. Her father and imUier lived in Berlin. He wasunlUtiiau tenor sieger of note, Uttt is now dead. Tho girl's mother, who is still alive, Is. a German wntr aud noeli.-t, Luilhu IU.-. lho mother was ambitious for her child and hoped that she would make a good niamsgR. The girl' carno to this country two years ago aud plaaett prominent parts iu the Aiulrgu Theatre t'ompnn. |