Show AUTHOR SLAYS HIS SECRETARY Then Slashes Throat and Leaps to Death in Berlin BERLIN C Ct C. C 8 By 8 By The Asso Asso- Associated Associated elated Press In Press In what hat Is belled believed to nave have been a fit of temporary insanity InsanIty insanity ity Herman George American author and critic bribe stabbed hIs ils private tary Katherine Von Meyer to tJ death with a carving knife and then attempted to to cu his own throat before pl pl pi aging to death from froma a third-story third window today i SEEK I Literary circles In which I was prominent because of his introduction of many German authors into Amer Amers Arner through his translations tran of them into English arc are discussing the sensational tragedy and trying to determine a motive for it In the house were had hadan hadan hadan an elaborate room n c room apartment he was known as a quiet and sober man At this afternoon the other ten ten- tenants tenants tenants ants heard cries of help coming from the A heavy thud on the floor followed and then there was silence The next moment they heard excitedly walking from one room to another SEE FATAL ATAL LEAP Shortly after that he was seen to open a kitchen window and don his working coat Spectators were hor- hor to see him cut a deep de p gash In his throat The next moment he threw thell himself from the window land- land landIng landIn landing Ing In in the courtyard and suffering a fractured He filed while being taken to a a- hospital Numerous friends of the dead American Teen c that th the act could have ha been only the result of a com com- complete complete complete nervous collapse cell apse of a man al always al- al always always ways inclined to take tak everything too seriously His family life is said to have been marred recently by repeated disagree disagree- ments Only a a. few days ago ao fauer returned re from See Ba- Ba Baria ria ria where he and his wife who was the r. r I L ih lr poet Et Talbot had a 0 villa and lived with their six six- year old CONDUCT CO DUCT ABOVE AnOR REPROACH R PRO The opinion among amon his friends Is f. f t t the mu nerd secretary's ys y's reputation reputation reputation tation was irreproachable it and the deed decd was not committed because of any emotional attachment between the two By the irony of fate al the thc first thing police saw when they entered the theauthor's theauthor's theauthor's authors author's study was WM a newspaper with red masks around the cain QIn ca- ca In in Dont Let Us Take Life Too Serl- Serl Ow |