The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-24

II. c. Frick, chairman of the Carnegie
Company, limited, was shot and stabbed
at LAS o'clock this afternoon by Alex
Burkman, aged 81, who says he lives on
Forty second street, New York. He is
Russian Jew. At $50 o'clock Secre-
tary Lovejoy gave a statement to the
Associated Press describing the wounds.
Two shots entered the neck about the
base Of the skull on either side. One
passed out between his shoulders and
the other was removed from the oppo-
site side OF his neck. The third shot
missed. There is no evidence that the
stab wounds are deep or that they will
prove dangerous. They are on right,
one at lower border Of ribs, other just
below the hip bone. There is no evi.
dence that any of these wounds will
prove serious. Frick's condition at
present is perfectly satisfactory.
The young man who operates the
elevator says that the would. be assassin
has been in and about the building for
three days. Six or eight times he has
taken the man up in the elevator. Each
time he asked to see Mr.. Bosworth, of
the Frick Company. The shooting was
done with Hopkins and Allen 3S-cali.
bre 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 a few DAYS
ago. He worked, he said, for the Singer
Machine Company. While here he
stopped at Merchants Hotel. What
did you do this for?" asked Inspector
McKelvey OF the prisoner. ~ guess you
KNOW" was his answer.
When Burkman was subjected to a
second examination by DR. Myers, tho
police surgeon, and Inspector McKelvey
two dynamite cartridges were found in
his mouth. The desperate man refused
to let them be taken out without a fierce
struggle, during which he had to be
choked until he was black in the face
before he would give up the explosive.
When DR.. Myers was examining him he
thought there was something wrong
with his mouth, and the doctor asked
him to open it. This he refused to do
until forced, and in so doing the car
tridges were found.
1t was evidently the mans intention
to explode them in his mouth and kill
himself in the same manner as did An
archist Lingg, the Chicago Haymarket
rioter, who was condemned to death,
but who committed suicide in prison.
1t is evident that the caps attached to
Burkman's cartridges would not work
and the scheme failed. The man has
been weighed and measured and has
had his photograph taken. He made no
objection to the latter process, seeming
in fact to relish it. After the dynamite
caps were taken from his mouth the
prisoner became more communicative
and stated that his name was Alexander
Burkman, and that he was cigar maker
in New York.
He said: 81 came here with the OK
press purpose OF killing Frick." why
did you want to kill him?" asked In.
spector McKelveY Why, he was an
enemy OF the people," The clerk at the
Merchants Hotel Unidentified the man as
the one who had registered as Simon
Beckerman, New York" Arthur Kirk,
dynamite dealer, after N aking an exam.
ination of the cartridges said that thew
we're the some kind as Lingg, the Chi
cago anarchist, used to conn nit suicide.
At 4:3o o'clock the physicians were still
in consultation. After Tricks wounds
had been dressed and bullets extracte
he was able to dictate a telegram to
Carnegie. who is in Europe.