San Francisco, Feb. 24---Mrs. S. L. Johnson of Tacoma, Wash., a Titanic widow and a bride of two weeks, was shot and instantly killed at the Sutter Hotel to-day by Abraham Pepper, a former suitor. Mrs. Johnson formerly was Mrs. Herman Klaber. Her husband, who went down with the Titanic, left her $50,000.
[Note---a reporting error: according to ET it was Mr. Klaber's niece who was shot and killed, not his widow.]
Chicago Examiner, Wednesday, February 25, 1914, p. 1, c. 2:
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