The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-07-25
H. C. FRICK SHOT.
An Unknarn E.a Eaters the Offices
oil ti:< carnegie Company at
Pitfshury
And Immediately Proceeds to Per
forate Chairman rick-Three
Shots Fired.
The Wounds Very Serious, But Not
Yet Known Whether Necessar.
lily Fatal.

lily Fatal.
PiTTsBrRa. July 25. Henry G. Frick,
the head chief and practically the abso-
lutte dictator Of the iron industries of
Western part Of the state. and the
possessor Of fortune variously esti-
mated at from Ave to ten million dollars,
was shot and perhaps fatally wounded
a few seconds before las o'clock p. m.
in his private Office on the sixth floor Of
the Chronicle Telegraph building on
Fifth avenue. A moment before the
tragedy, slim, dark complicated young
man, neatly dressed in light clothing,
entered the elevator car on the first floor
and requested to be let out at the Office
of the chairman of the company. The
elevator man, while the car was ascend
ing, noticed that his passenger acted
rather nervously and had wild
look In his eyes. But, accustomed
as he has been during the past
few days to seeing all sorts and condi-
tions OF men. he did not give it second
thought. Leaving the car the stranger
proceeded across the hall and entered
Mr., Frick's outer Office and requested
the usher to take him to Mr.. Frick. The
boy, having recognized his visitor as q
man who called Friday and was refused
an audience, did not comply, and inn
meiiately thereafter the voice of Mr..
Frick was heard in the outside Office
saying: Let him come in" The man
stepped briskly through the glass door
into the private Office. What brief con-
versation passed between the two men II
not now known, but it was hardly more
than minute before there was noise
like q scuffie and then shot rang out
upon the air. Before the startled clerks
in the outer offices could rush to the
scene there were three more shots The
first man to enter the room found Mr..
Frick hanging on to his assailant, while
blood was streaming from his wounds.
At the sight of the clerk the would-be
assassin sshook hiznsah from his victim
and
Dashed Out Of the Door.
but, instead Of taking to the stairs, made
bound into the elevator car which was
standing there with the door open at the
time The elevator man had sufficient
presence of mind to hold him in the
cabinet until the arrival Of Officers Nc
Roberts and Crossin, who placed him
under arrest. In the meanwhile an inn
mense crowd had begun to gather in the
streets, and when the officers appeared
with their prisoner, who was pale and
tremblig, and with his clothing spat-
tered with blood, there were hundreds
Of groans and howls, intermingled with
cries of :
'.shoot Himi" Lynch the Murdereri''
1t was with difficulty that the officers
succeeded In conveying the man in
safety to the patrol box at the corner OF
Wood street and Fifth avenue, from
which tire patrol wagon was summoned.
He was roughly pushed into the vehicle
and taken to the Central station, where
he gave the name Of Alexander Berk-
man, and said he resided in New York.
He said he was q Russian Jew; had been
in America six years, and in Pittsburg
two days. He has been stopping at the
Merchants hotel, on Water street. When
questioned regarding his occupation he
said he had been compositor on New
York paper, but declined 10 give its
name. Upon being searched number
of 3s-calibre cartridges were found in
his coat pocket. During the process of
searching he became wildly excited and
deathly pale. 1t was the general i'm
pression Of all who saw him at this
junction that he
Was Undoubnsdiy Demented.
Before being locked up he was asked
If he killed Mr.. Frick and replied in the
Affirmative.
sWhy did you shoot him2' was asked,
and. with half hysterical gurgle, he
replied,
II guess you know that.
The first se1ni-oficial statement from
the physicians was to the effect that
three shots had taken effect, one in the
ear, another ia the neck and third in
the back. The unfortunate man had
also received serious cash In the back
from sharp knife. It was decided that
the patient could not be Immediately
removed to his residence, except
at the risk Of his life, and for
two hours thereafter the physicians
exerted themselves toward alleviating
his sufferings by all methods and by all
medical appliance known to medical sci
ence At $50 p. m. word came from
the room that one Of the balls had been
extracted, but which one was not stated.
At this hour the attending physicians
viii risk no opinion regarding the
chances Of Mr.. Frick's recovery. II Is
feared that the effect or the news upon
Mrs. Frich, who. eight or ten days ago
became the mother Of q little boy, and
who Is devotedly attached to her hus-
band, viii be very serious.
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