Show AffAIR I IL L Of I Italian Army Officer Commits Com Com- mits mils Suicide f WAS r ENAMORED r OF F AMERICAN GIRL I 1 Sa Says l-Says y s Farewell Puts Put Bullet Bul Jullet Jul- Jul let in in Heart v f 1 YORK March 19 AP AP- AP trl loc a young Italian lieutenant ot of an old Florent Floren- Floren t Tte j f family Iy J Js Is dead in n Fl Florence rence y by his own hand after a ai ji i ie ef passion for Merle Marl Impulse pulse Schreiber 18 year old sub- sub d db d b o of a N. N J. J silk mer mer- chant met vier Miss Schreiber atthe at ai tJ the e home of Mrs bits Cornelia Hoffman Hoff- Hoff man In Florence where the girl has been visiting He He sent two 1 t rs to Maries Marie's mother in New J lY aey e y The letters Mrs Schreiber s ld Id after atter cable dispatches came camet tb ut t the thc were written in n very broken En English lIsh but in them It t was easy to see that he was wash h head d over heels in love with her heir Lieutenant had been notified notified notified no no- that his visits must stop Marie gave him no encouragement but he ho spent whole days dars promenading fn ing under her window He obtained ob obtained ob- ob months month's a leave of absen absence e and went event to Paris Parts apparently in an effort to forget torget But he returned more enamored than ever ever Yesterday he ne met Marie coming from Irom tho rho house He FIe took tools her tier hand and bid her farewell in his own t Th he n a tongue ngue J put a bullet though his tic heart Mrs 1 Schreiber said at the tha whole thing Is very nat nate My Iy daughter is a aery very ery quiet il girl Irl not at all an the flapper type I know that this will upset her greatly She had bad known the young officer for some time and while she liked him a good deal she did not trot love him From what I know of him through her letters and a picture she sent home he was a 11 very fine type of man |