Murder And Suicide

Ernest L. Chase cut his wife's throat and then tnrned the razor against his own, at their home in Detroit, Monday morning last. Both seem on the fair way to recovery unless some complication sets in, so he may possibly be relieved from the consequences of his rashness. Chase is a son of late Dr. A. W. Chase of this city, the author of the frtmous "Dr. Chase's Recipe Book." He is bbout 38 years of age, and has lost his positions one after another because of his dissolute habits. Ilis wife had separated from him for a time and was earning her own living in Detroit, when he carne there and by promises of reform induced her to live with him again. These promises hè did not keep, and his wife had given him all the money she had, and it is probable that her failure to keep him in funds is the reason for his act, although he had not been drinking at the time of the deed. In a letter he makes some serious charges against his wife, for which there does not seem to be any gronnd. They have two children one son sixteen who works in the city, and a' yonnger son who is in school, and whom his father had kissed goodbye only a short time before he committed the deed.