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Show SPURNED BY MANj GIRL KILLS SELF Flapper Love Sends Evelyn Couture Cou-ture to Death and Kenneth Gumm to Hospital BREAKS; UP WEDDING Marriage Festivities Turned Into Tragedy by Infatuated Girl Bride Telia Story of Dead Girl's Persistency. Toledo, Ohio. Flapper love, violent and passionate, but shallow and Impotent, Im-potent, sent Evelyn Couture, nineteen years old, of Sylvanla, to her death by her own hand and put Kenneth P. Gumm, twenty-one. of Toledo, In a hospital with a bullet In hla lung. Mrs. Pearl Thomas Gumm, wife of the wounded man, Is a candidate for the state senate in the primary election. elec-tion. She has espoused the cause of short skirts, bobbed hair and other features of a liberal platform. ; Wedding festivities of young Gumm and his bride of a few hours were halted by an Insistent knock on tbr Pulled the Gun and Fired. door of the bride's apartment on the evening of the wedding day. When it was answered Evelyn Couture, the sinister shadow cf the Gumms' courtship, court-ship, stood In the hall. She formerly bad held a place In Gumtn's favor. Asks Girl te Depart Mrs. Gumm, realizing that the girl was agitated over the news that young Gumm had married, asked why Mist Couture did not go away and leave them alone. "He's mine, Pearl Thomas," she re-plied re-plied to the bride who formerly was Pearl Thomas, manicurist and artist model. Mrs. Gumm attempted to per suade the girl to go away and not make a scene on account of the marriage. mar-riage. "Oh, what's the use," she replied despondently. Then, according to Mrs. Gumm, the Couture girl asked that Mrs. Gumm step out Into the hallway, "After a recent experience with her, I was afraid to do this. Then she said she wished to see Kenneth," the bride said. "He came out of the bathroom and saw her. He said: Go home, we're married. Let us alone.' "She Insisted that she wanted to see him for a moment and came Into the room, carrying a flapper hat In her hand. Kenneth said: 'I suppose you have a gun again. Well, If you have, you might as well shoot I eat bullets.' "Of course, he didn't think she would shoot, hut she walked up te him and pulled the gun from under her hat and fired. I had started down-klairs down-klairs and turued at tle shot Sha bad thrown her arms around him. but even though wounded, he flung her from him toward a corner. Then I beard another shot. and. running hack, thought she had shot him again. When I reached the door she was falling to the floor. She had killed herself. When I saw her there, all crumpled op and Kenneth wounded. I fainted. "She didn't love Kenneth and he didn't love hei. She mlsrlit have been Infatuated with what I wouM cull flap per love, but there was nothing deep about her affection. "I truly love my husband, although It has only been In the last few weeks that we have been together murh, after a long estrangement. Dtirlne these weeks this girl contlnunlly followed fol-lowed us. Kenneth told me he was through with her. "As late as two nights before the wedding I wanted to terminate our friendship and give Kenneth to her If he winted to go to lier, hut he assured me that there was nothing to hli friendship with her and that he merely mere-ly had spent some time with the Couture Cou-ture girl while we wore estranged. Three weelts ogo he told me he was ready to settle down and we started gi itn ar together acaln. "Then Miss Couture Interfered, Recently Re-cently she met us on street and pulled a g'lti en us. Kenneth told her to stop talking about him as he wil through " |
