Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-07-30
SHOT BY A CRANK.
Henry G. Prick Attacked in His Office
at Pittsburg, Penn.
riousiy Wounded, but Cheerful and
Confident of His Recovery-MIlI
Men Denounce the Act.

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riousiy Wounded, but Cheerful and
Confident of His Recovery-M
Men Denounce the Act.
desperate and almost successful attempt
vas m de in ttsburg to asslssinats Henry
Clay Prick, chairman Of the Carnegie Steel
Company, Limited.
HIS asssilsut was Alexander Berk man, 9
Russian Jew, who came to Pittsburg from
New 70 with the evident intention OF re.
moving tie man who has been the principal
on the employer side Ia The great struggle
now going on tween capital and labor.
1t was q few minutes befors 2 P. NJ, when
adark-complexioned young man with jew
ish cast of un,enance, of medium height,
and fairly well dressed, entered the Ell vator
IL the Chronicle Telegraph bu ltling, which
is also occupied BY the Carnegie Steel Com.
pany. Limited, and asked to be let of at Mr..
tricks Office.
The young man had been freq aent visitor
during the past few days, and David Fort.
Eey, the elevator boy, thought nothing of the
request, but stoTped at the second floor, and
pointed out the way TO the chairman's private
room.
Leaving the car the stranger proceeded
across the hall and entered Mr. Friok's outer
Once, and requested the usher to take him To
MIR. Frick.
TIE boy, having recognized hi, visitor as a
mar who called before and was refused an
audience, complied and immed ately there.
alter the vo.ce OF Mr.. Fr.ck was heard In the
private Ctfice saying to let him come in.
The man stepped briskIy th on III the glass
door into the private Office.
W hat brief COW rsion passed between the
two men Is not known, but IL wss hardly more
than minute before there was noise Ink. o
seutfie, and then shot rang out upon the
air.
Before the started clerks In the other Office.
could rush to the scene there W re three more
shots.
The first man to enter the room found Mr.
Prick banging on his ASA liant, while blood
was streaming rom his wounds.
At the sight of the clerk the would.be as.
sassin shook himseH loose from his victim and
dashed out of the door. But, instead tax.
ing to the stairs, he made O bound into the
elevator cab which was standing with thu
door open.
!, The elevator man had sufficient presence Of
I1ind to hold him in The cab until the arrival
osOhcers McRoberts and Crossin, who placed
him under arrest.
In the meanwhile, an immense crowd had
begun 10 gather IN the streets, and when the
officers appeared with their prisoner, who was
pale and trembling, with his clothing spat.
tered with blood, there were hundreds Of
groans an how 8, informing ed with cries OF
Shoot him. Lynch the murderer"
He was roughly pushed into the pat oil
wagon and taken to the Central Station, where
he gave the name of Alexander Berk a an a ID
laid that he resided on Forty. sec md ST., New
York.
He was, he said, a Russian Jew; had been
In America six years, and in Plttsburg two
days. He has been stopping at the Mercnants
Hotel on Water-st
He sal he had been a compostor on New
York paper, but declined TO give its name.
1t was the general impression ofall who saw
him at tie station that he was undoubtedly
demented. Beioring being locked up he was
asked If he knew Mr.. Prick, and replied in
the affirmative.
Why you shoot him?" was asked and
with q halt hysterical gurgle he replied: Il
guess you know that"
In the meantime all the physicians in the
immediate neiRhtorhood had been summoned.
and, with Dr. L:tchGeId, an eminent prac.
titioner, at their head, proceeded to administer
to the wounded man.
Although weak from the loss of blood and
suffering great pain Mr.. Frick still retained
consciousness.
lie vas lying on a couch when the doctors
arrived, and the first report that came out,
which WIS evidently lassd on the superficial
examination, was to the effect that tour shots
had taken effect that one had penetrated the
bowels, another had entered the chords in the
oa OF his neck.
Later the s. mi Official statement came that
three shots had taken effect one In the ear, an.
other in the neck, and third in the back. The
I'm ortunstc man had also received serious
CASH In the neck from sharp knife.
1t was decided that the patien tcould not be
Immediately removed to his homs except at
the risk of his life, and for two hours there.
after the physicians exerted themselves to.
W.T. alternating his sufterings by all methods
and appliances known 10 medicai science.
Ex-SherlH Gray was on the witness stand
when the news reached the courtroom that
Mr.. Frick had been shot. The news caused
great exoi ement.
Mr.. O'Donnell was evidently greatly
shocked, and said, lob, that Is terrible; that
Is terrib'ei"
He vas deeply and visibly affected, and Il
Was ONLY with fhe greatest aHort tha at ha eon.