The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-06-20
A POLICEMAN WOUNDED
BY a Tough Customer Whom
he was Trying to Arrest
A SENSATIONAL SHOOTING
Causes a Good Deal ofE1citemcut all
Through the olty-A Suspicious
Character is Wounded and
then Locked Up,

policeman and another man, q stranger
The widest rumors at once spranR into
circulation, and far and wide In an
incredibly short space Of time and in
wildly varying forms, One story was
that an officer had been killed. another
that the officers assailant was killed, and
one form OF the story was that both men
had been fatally injured.
The real facts were bad enough, but
fortunately nobody was dangerously
hurt,
About the hour named Officer Henry
Frohme, OF the Eighth ward day force,
was informed that tramp was insulting
and Tightening women down on the
river bank, about Forty.tlth street. The
officer went down, and found the man
lying on the ground among q clump o.
bushes. He stopped over him and
placed his hands on him, The officer
had been warned that the man was
armed with a revolver, and he quickly
found that this was true, for Us Frohme
caught him, he drew q large revolver,
aud without attempting to rise, pointed
It at Frohme's head and fired. Henry
turned his head, and the ball, alorty'
iour.Callibre, struck him on the lett side
OF the scalp near the base Of the crani'
um, 1t ranged over the skull and came
out at the other side about opposite
where 1t entered. The ball was Aattened
to a thin wafer by It's contact with the
skull,
The shot staggered Frohme, and he
reeled probably eight feet before he fell
Charles Landkrohn, a well.known stone
mason Of the Eighth ward, had accom-
panied the policeman, anda as the stranger
arose after shooting the officer, Land
krohn grappled with him. When thu
officer recovered his feet the stranger
was apparently getting the best Of Land
krohn, and Frohme drew his revolye'
and pointed 1t at the man, but when hi
pulled the trigger the pistol would no
shoot, LandErohn managed to Olsen
gage himself from the fellow, and draw
inc his revolver, shot him. The ball ap
%pafently entered Just below the left eyC
not far from the nose. The wound die
not disable him, but he placed his hand
over his face and said
"For Gods sake, don't shoot any
morel"
He was arrested, and after beinJ
searched, was arraigned before squirl
W, II, Davis, who committed him TO jal
LIN default OF 5000 for a preliminar.
hearing June 90 at 9 p. m, on u Charg'
OF shooting with intent to kill: .,
When searched, tho revolver will
which he shot Frohme, o huge am
wicked looking knife, with a blade four
teen inches long, nickle-plated, and tn!
hone handle seemingly covered will
dry blood, andtwo smaller but dangerou
looking dIrks were found concealed OIL
him. The larger knife was In Q scabbar'
inside his pantaloons, extending dow
from the right hip. He also had a port
manteau full OF articles which were no
examined, and last night the polio
learned that he had at boarding hous
al Benwood, where he was staying,
yalise full OF suspicious articles.
He had several letters and postal card
on his person which showed him to be
German, named Heinrich Gerstmann
helm. He.said he was born in Germany
August 10, 1853.
Among his letters was one from a maj
in Parkerburg, introducing him'to glas
workers here as u mold maker, He ts
short, thick.set, roughlooking man, AM
everybody who saw him without intor
nation as to his nationality, took hin
for au Italian.
The mans own story was that som
boys.were annoying hin, and he drov
them of. Later several women came u
10 where he was, and he ordered then
10 leave. Then, being tired, he laydown
and shortly a man walked over him, ant
fell on him. Without looking to see whit
the man was, he fred, and the man turn
cd out 10 be a policeman.
The valise was brought up from Ben
wood last night. It contained little be
sides tools used by a glass mould maker
In II was a paper, written in German
which seemed to be the mans owr
statement OF a shooting affair in which
he was engaged at Pittsburgh. 1t Il
badly written, but enough can be madC
out 10 show that II concerns the shoot
ing OF a constable at Doyle's glass fac
tory, in Pittsburgh. There was a repor
yesterday that Gerstmannheim had sho'
an officer in o Pittsburgh glass house
and was a fugitive from Justice, and thil
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He had among his belongings a small
bottle OF clay used by mould makers
and this was spotted by some WHO saw
It as dynamite. The man was set dowI
from this as IN Anarchist, while other
from his big knife jumped at the con
clusion that he was ''JaCk, the Ripper
He said when asked what he used the
Big knife for, ITO kill deers with" II
one OF the officers he said, "When 9
man catch hold auf mich, ICh killhiml'
Doubt is expressed as TO whether
Gerstmannhelm was shot at oil. HI
said once the ball was In the back OF bill
head, and again that 1t was up his nose
He refused 10 let DR.. Hoge search for 1t
His wound does not look rs II 1t wert
caused by a-bullet, but rather as II i
were cut. by . piece Of wad. He Ii
burned with powder in the corner the
eve, and his eye Is somewhat sWelled
When brought to the jail he bled freely
from the nose.
Frohme acted with great pluck. Ate,
recovering his feet, seeing that Gerst.
mannheim was trying 10 shoot Land.
krohn, he shouted 10 the latter!
"Kill him Kill him, orhe'll kill you!'
After the man begged not 10 DO shot
again, Frohme arrested him and brought
him UP the bank. Tho wounded officer
was BiCk from his wounds last night, but
no serious symptom had shown itself.
aERsrNANNuErM DYING.
At / o'clock this morning a telephone
message was sent from the county Jail "a
police headquarters saying that gerst.
mannheim had Just begun 10 show dan.
gerotis symptoms, and was very low,
The Jail officials expressed the opinion
that he could not live till this morning,
When his supper was served he sol
straddle OF q bench and ate heartily, and
seemed In good spirits, Nobody a. that
time had any idea his wound was Of ali
dangerous, lot alone fatal. The turn iot
The worse did not set In till after mid.
night
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