The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-24
rBJCK SHOT AND STABBED
no .ssAILANr A CRANK FROM
H'0 NEW YlRX.

w., Wounds Prove Fat -.-Assassina-
49,, Attempted Because the Crank
considered Frick an Enemy of the
Peopls.
p,rrsRURG, Pa, July 23.-H. G. Frick
-,aIr,rsn OF the Carnegie company, limited,
sbos and stabbed at las o'clock this
.fterpoon by Alexander Berkman, aged 81,
'pr.,i,p Jew, who says he lives on Forty
s,o,nd street, New York. At $50 O'Clock
s.,rs.sry Lovejoy gave statement TO the
associated Press describing the wounds.
To- shots entered the neck about the base
=, tbe skull on either side. One passed out
ha,waen his shoulders and the other was res
moved from the opposite side OF the neck.
Nh. third shot missed. There is no evidence
chat the stab wounds are deep or that they
wiTl prove dangerous. They are on the
riybt side. one at the lower border OF the
rios the other Just below the hip-bone.
There is no evidence that any Of these
wounds will prove serious. Mr..
Er,cks condition at present is
narfectly satisfactory. The young man
VINO operates the elevator SAYS that the
yould-be assassin has been In and about
the building Tor three days. Six or eight
2imss he has taken the man up In the ele-
vator. Each time he asked to see Nc. Bos-
worth Of the Frick company. The shooting
yas doua with Hopkins & Allen 3S-csliber
revolver. Four chambers of it are empty.
When arrested the assassin said he was a
Russian Jew and had been in this country
four years. He came here from New York
only few days ago. He worked, he said,
40 TArv,nanu Uhila
here he stopped at the Merchants hotel
what did you do this forp asked In
spector McKelvy OF the prisoner.
81 guess you Know was the answer.
HAD DYNAMITE IN HIS MOUTH.
When Berkmsn was subjected to Sec
Oud examination by DR.. Myers, police sur
Veon, geo and Inspector McKelvy two dynamite
cartridges we're found in his mouth.
The desperate man refused to let them be
taken oue without a fierce struggle, during
which he had to be choked until he was
black in the face before he gave up the ex-
po5ve. Wnen DR.. Meyer was examining
him he thought there was something wrong
with dis mouth, and the doctor asked him
to opel il. This he refused TO do until
forced to, and In 80 doing the cartridges
we're found. 1t was evidently the
mans intention to explode them in
his mouth and kill himself in
the same manner as Anarchist Lingg, tho
Chicago Haymarket rioter who was con-
demned, but who committed suicide in
prison. II is evident that the caps attached
TO Berkman's cartridges would not work
aud e scheme failed. The man has been
weighed and measured and has had bis
pho o.ograph taken. He made no objection
TO the latter process, seeming in fact to
relish it,
After the dynamite caps we're taken from
his mouth the prisoner became more co H.
and stated that his name was
Alexander BsrkmRu, and that hs was a
cigsrmsker in New York. SAID be: "I
came here with the express purpose of
killing Friok"
'Why did you want to kill him?n asked
Inspector McKelvy.
why, he was an enemy of the people. {"
The elerA at tne Merchants hotel idsnti-
hed hIm as man who had registered as
'SlmUn becker nan, New York"
Arthur KIRK, a dynamite dealer, after
making an examination of the cartridges =,
sad they we're the same kind rs Lingg. the
Chicago anarchist, used to commit suicide.
At 4:30 O'Clock the physicians were still
In consultation. After Mr.. Frick's wounds
bad been dressed and the bullet extracted he
was able to dictate a telegram to Mr.. Car
nsgle, who ls in Europe.
CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE SHOOTING.
The circumstances attending the shooting
are related as follows: A few minutes be-
lore 1o'clOck this afternoon a dark COM
piexloHed young man with Jewish cast of
coantenance, of medium hight and fairly
well dressed, entered the elevator In the
Chron5cle- Telegraph building, which is
siso occupied by the Carnegie Steel
company limited, and asked to be
let OF at Mr. Fricks office.
lae young man had been a frequent
visitor during the past few days ana David
foftney, the elevator boy, thought nothing
OF the request, but stopped at the second
noor and pointed out the way to the chair
mans private room. Two minutes later
1ne occupants OF the building aud passersby
on ruth avenue were started by three
pS'ol snots tired in rapid succession. In
tuluVely the victim was OWNED aud
,Frick is shot" we're the words soon passing
from mouth to mouth on the street. IL
was true. A man believed to be crank
nso assaulted the great steel master, but
sue latter notwithstanding two bullet
Wounds and four ugly gashes from a dag
yer, Stlll lives and will probably recover
me Office ofaMr. L ishman, business
partner OF Mr.. Frlck, adjoins that of the
Chairman. Mr.. Leishmau came in, and
Ins two were holding private conference.
Nv one else being ia the room. A few
minutes ~ before O'Clock Harry Heckloy,
1ue ollice boy, noticed a man hastily push
open tne swinging gate in the railing that
tIIs i. between the public portion and the
iuoiosure, whore the desks of the stenox-
lapners and clerks ara located. There vas
40 ~. one near the private Office door, and
ss NC oJy hurried up to ask the intruder
"ua' he wanted, but he was too late, as
.u9 stranger had already entered the pri-
1te ,sVe aps, tment AS he entered the Office
nI, frlck looked up, as did also Mr..
--1A rels' ntnan, to see who it was. Mr.. Friek
"a' examining bundle of papers.
THE SHOOTING.
\, Inc man spraug within about fiye feet Of
mr. FTick, and quickly drawing his re-
tsoLYer, pulled the trigger. The first car
uIuge did not explode. The second shot
Entered the back OF Mr.. Frick's neck, and
slsncing downward, passed 80 the outside
oeio" the arm pit. Mr.. Frick made an ex-
o.t o.aLnatlon and jumped TO a circular window
Tn Sii flith avenue and tried in vain to open it.
Ills assailant passed nearly In front Of the
se seSH and approaching close TO Mr. Frick
"a uLeG again. The ball entered a muscle on
.ue lett side OF the neck and passed around
" iodgment under the righT ear, where it
vas vas later reached by probe. Al this in
s.4uS Mr.. Leishman threw himself on the
" oulu-os assassin and wrestled for posses
SOU si OF the revolver. Mr.. Leishman clutc ed
.ne barrel and turned the muzzle upward
.I 5 cartridge exploded, the ball entering
suo mastering near glass partition. With
s5A'y the desperate man drew dagger
,. .Ie attempted to stab Mr.. Lsishman, who
s "as holding the assallan6 by the shoulder
l.