New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-18
rs FELDMAN AN ANARCHIST!
HIS wIFE's STORIES ABOUT HlM--A HUN i'->
p1OsIvE IN HIS POSSESSION.


Mann Fedman the druggist Of NO l''oi 0econ ,,
-, ,as arrested IN Sunday by Detective Gold-
-, ~ tho Fast One hundred and-fourth-s'' a'"
tion on a charge Of threatening to snoo' HIS W.
yetta and their -months-old BABY was d u.s.
before Magistrate Mott at the Harlem 'oui. '',
dav morning and held in szSo pan ioi s'.'
Fedman. who is man Of dark complexio"' '"e",'
eight years Old. and speaks broken hhs''S"' -, -.
and self possessed lie talked nationally ana uiu "o'
- ,ho' irsana man which his wife declares him TO
be. - -. Aha
When Mrs. Feldman made her comp.aih' az VIZ
station on Friday she handed Captain "es'ei'e q"
eight-ounce phal of what has since proven 10 y.
high explosive and she said that 1t was maue ny 'i
husband for the avowed purpose OF blowing up VI"
Fifth Avenue Hotel. She said he was an AnarchiS'
and she believed him to be member Oh an
organization ,, ,a
AT the arraignment yesterday Mrs Feldman sa'u
that on Friday her husband. in mt oil rage, ""u
taken a loaded revolver from trunk and poht"s Il
AT her had threatened to kill her and her DaOy' Dc
fore he could the weapon she ran INTO the
and did not return to the house until after the nes"
bor, had paciied him and he had given up the re-
volver and promised not harm her. She said that
she was married seventeen months ago. ana ma s
insane Sine the birth OF the baby he had become
worse, and mad often threatened 10 XIII llt T,
F'rdav she told the Magistrate that both herself
and her husband were free thinkers ana ,hdt .mc'i
In speaking of the explosives. Mrs teldmah sa,o
her husband had often spoken OF ms nteheI Ia -
blow up the Fifth Avenue Hotel. as 1t was the neat
quarters of capital and capitalists. sometimes ne
said she declared, that he would take room there
and blow himself up, too. She knew OF no conieueI-
ate. . -, H.
Feldman denied all that his wife had SAID. ne
swore that the explosive had been entrusted 10 ms
care by General Rolf, Cuban insurgent Tor use III
the Cuban struggle for independence lie SAID that
ne did not threaten kill his wife and baby. ana hdt
the revolver was not loaded He alleged that MS VIE
believing that he about to desert her. used TINS
means to keep him In this country his people, lie
said were wealthy grain merchants in Odessa, Rus
STA IL was there that no studied chemistry, ne SAID
lie declares that he at one time a soldier III the
Russian Army. He formerly employed IN drug
store at Pike and Henry SITS. detective found IN
the cellar of his house galvanic battery ana other
apparatus which said to belong TO him Captain
Westeryelt Is trying TO discover whether Feldman
ever had any connection with any body or Anar-
chlsts. 80, , +. 1900
When Feldman was searched in the prison 1t was
found that he carried miniature drug store ana
arsenal about with him. In one pocket was phai
Containing twenty-elght one-fourtl-gra morphine
Mills in another six more wrapped in piece of news
paper and another half-dozen in the sweatband or
his hat A dozen 32-calibre cartridges were in an
other pocket. and in still another pocket SIX more
cartridges. The cartridges are OF the same cailbre
as the revolver which ne is said to have threatened
TO shoot his wife with . 80
In explaining the presence of all this deadly ma
terial Fedman said that the morphine was for MS
insomnia and nervousness, and that he had found
he cartridges In his wlfes trunk and had taken them
away. as she did not know how 10 use a revolver