Born in 1896, Rose was the eldest of the four children of William and Edna (Tobey) Mathew* and grew up in Plymouth, Indiana (1900 Census, 1910 Census). Sometime after 1910 the family moved to Gary. According to her marriage announcement, Rose had begun working as "society editor" for the Gary Tribune around 1914.
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Lake County Times (Hammond, Ind.) 12 May 1917.
Her father, William, was an attorney. According to his obituary, he served as "special prosecutor" in the murder trial of Harry Diamond (former owner of the Berghoff roadhouse).
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Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.) 19 Feb. 1931.
However, in A Jazz Age Murder in Northwest Indiana: The Tragic Betrayal of Nettie Diamond, Jane Simon Ammeson depicts William Mathew as acting for the defense.
That's the extent of my research thus far.
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*The surname also shows up as "Matthew" and "Matthews"; I'm sticking with the way Rose wrote it.
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