The Evening World

GIRL FOUND SLAIN BY HER JAP ADMIRER WHO KILLED SELF

LOVE-CRAZED JAP KILLS PRETTY GIRL AND ENDS HIS LIFE

Lures White Victim to Roslyn Estate and Leaves Incoherent Note.

Sukezi Namina, the Japanese butler of A. C. Clarkson of the oil firm of Clarkson & Ford, No. 55 Water street, Manhattan, to-day killed Tessie Simmons, a pretty young woman who conducted a furnished room house at No. 844 West Fifty-eighth street, by shooting her in the heart. The love-crazed Jap then turned the pistol on himself and sent a bullet through his brain. The murder and suicide occurred in the quarters occupied by the Jap on the Elmer Stevenson estate at Roslyn, L. I., one of the finest country places in the fashionable colony, which is rented by Mr. Clarkson as a country place.

Namina met the girl, who was twenty-seven years old, when he was employed by a Mrs. Lehman in Brooklyn, some time ago. She then lived with her mother at No. 1966 Fulton street, Brooklyn. The family name is Miller.

Miss Simmons left her rooming house last night to go to Roslyn.

The Jap left three letters, one of apology to his employer, one to Miss Simmons's sister, Mrs. Charles Boren, of No. 2519 Van Cortlandt avenue, Evergreen, Queens, and a third to the Coroner.

"I am very old friends. May I die my way? I know girl about four year. Just a friend with me. But trouble come off few weeks ago. was a part of the letter to the Coroner.

Mr. Clarkson said that Namina had worked for him only a short time. He had formerly been steward of the schooner yacht Clarissi, owned by E. K. Price of Philadelphia.

What means the Jap used to lure the girl to Roslyn is not known. She was driven direct to the Clarkson place and was met by the Jap. That was the last seen of her alive.

At 5 o'clock to-day Thomas Mallan, the Clarksons' coachman, went to small house at the rear of the Stevenson mansion to summon the Japanese, who was a butler. The door was not locked and he pushed it open. The first thing he saw was the body of the girl, fully dressed, lying almost across the threshold as if she had been shot down while trying to escape the Jap.

Not far from the girl's body lay the Jap's. The revolver with which he had killed the girl and himself was beside him. The room was in perfect order.

Coroner Remsen, Sheriff Pettitt and Detective Seaman were notified by telephone and started at once for the Stevenson place. The Coroner said that he thought the murder and suicide must have begun early, before daylight.