Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1892-07-28
Il. G. FRICK SHOT.
A RUSSIAN JEW ENTERS HIS Of
FICE AND ATTEMPTS HIS LIFE.
Without q Word of Warning he
Fires Two Balls into his Neck
and Stabs him Twice With
Dagger. The Wounds not Se>
riouS-Frick's Courage
The Assassin Arrested.


P1rrsBURe, July 23.-H. c.
Frick, chairman of the Carnegie
company, limited, was shot and
stabbed at 1:45 o'clock this after.
noon by Alexander Jew, who says
he lives on Forty second street
New York.
At $50 o'clock Secretary Love
Joy gave a statement to the Aeso-
ciated Press describing the wounds.
Two shots entered the neck about
the base of the skull on either side.
One passed out between his shoul-
ders and the other was removed
from the opposite side of the neck.
The third shot missed. There is
no evidence that the stab wounds
are deep or that they will prove
dangerous. They are on the right,
one at the lower border of the
ribs; the other just below the hip
bone. There is no evidence that
any of these wounds will prove
serious. Mr.. Frick's condition at
present is perfectly satisfactory.
The young man who operates
the elevator says the would-be
assassin has been in and about the
building for three days. Six or
eight mes he has taken the man
up in the elevator. Each time he
asked to see Mr.. Basworth of the
Frick company.
The shooting was done with a
Hopkins and Allen 38-calibre re-
volver. Four Chambers Of it are
empty. When arrested the assas-
sin said he was a Russian Jew and
had been in this country four years.
He came here from New Y ork only
a few days ago. He worked, he
said, for the singer Machine COM
pany. While here be stopped at
the Merchants hotel.
"What did you do this for?''
asked Inspector McKelvey of the
prisoner.
II guess you know" waa the
answer.
When Berkman was subjected to
a second examination by DR.. Myers,
the police surgeon and Inspector
McKelyey two dynamite car
tridges were found in his mouth.
The desperate man refused to let
them be taken out without fierce
struggle, during which he had to be
choked until he was black in the
face before he gave up the explos.
Iiyes. When DR.. Myers was exam
lining him he thought there was
something wrong with his mouth
and the docter asked him to open
it. This he refused to do until forced,
and in 80 doing the cartridges were
found. 1t was evidently the mans
Intention to explode them in his
lmouth and kill himself in the same
manner as Anarchist Ling, the
Chicago Hay market rioter, who
was condemned to death but who
committed suicide in prison, 1t il
evident that the caps attached to
Berkman's cartridges wonld not
work and the scheme failed. The
man has been weighed, measured
and his photograph taken. He
; made no objection to the latter pro-
cess, seeming, in fact, to relish it
4 After the dynamite caps were
taken from his mouth the prisoner
became more communicative and
stated that his name was Alexander
: Berkman and that he was cigal
maker in New York. Said he: 81
came here with the express purpose
of killing Frick."
"Why did you want to kill him?'
asked Inspector McKelveya
"Whv he was an enemy of the
people
The clerk at the Merchants hote
Unidentified him as the man wht
had registered as Simon Berkman
New York.
Arthur Kirk, dynamite dealer
after an examination of the car
tridges, said they we're the same
kind as Ling, the Chicago Anarch
list used to commit suicide.
) AT $40 o'clock the physician
r were still in consultation. Afte
Mr.. Frick's wounds had beel
| dressed and the bullet extracted b.
] was able to dictate a telegram t.
8 Carnegie, who is in Europe.
: LATER.-The circumstances at
tending the shooting are related a