The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-12-20
TRAGEDY IN Low LIFE.
Rejected Lover Attempts to Murder
the YornE Woman.
New York Tribune

-NeN 10fS IEituHe.
All day yesterday and we'll into the
evening the big tenement house at Ne. IL
Henry street was a scene OF great rejoic-
ING SIreaEiers of gay coiors fioafed from,
many windows and Joyous was the ciamor
,hat noated down the usually dark hu,
tnes. snuch-ifiumlnaied. stairway A Hun
garian orchestra contributed 10 the fes-
NVlty, and. altogether * was q happy
crowd isaac Goldstein was taking as his
bride the handsome ard much-eourted
Katie Silyerstein.
The ceremony was being celebrated in
the thrse-roon fat of the SiiversteInS i'm
the front. The entire population OF the
tenement, as well as several adjoining.
had been invited. and there was little
room. When it looked as If the crowd
would spoil the affair Yetta Gordon. who
mas two rooms back OF the Silyerst.ins,
generously placed her fiat at the disposal
or the bride. ard many Of the guests
gathered therein.
All was going well. when the guests of
the Gordon end of The wedding were star
Tied by the abrupt appearance on the
scene or Charies Seaapiro swarthy young
hebrew, "A years old OF No. ss Canal
street. He was a former lover of Ye;ta
Gordon. and had gone so Ear as to hire a
nan Tor their wedding on December l. But
month ago he conhded TO Yetta that his
income was 81 a week and told her she
would have TO keep her Job in a clothing
factory after they got married.
fetta said she loved him and wanted to
get married. but the man didn't live who
could make her earn her own living after
she was married. So 1t was decided 10
ahrogate the agreement TO we'd and a
paper, duly witnessed according to the He
brew rite. was drawn up. and both were
free. month passed. and neither spoke
but word came to Yetta that Schapiro was
talking in an ugly manner and she was
warned TO watch him. So, last night when
ne rushed into the Gordon fiat and roughly
demanded TO see Yetta and have a talk
With her. she was frightened and refused
TO go. Without word he gave the girl
violent blow in the face and then pulled
revolver. He fired shot at her. but the
bullet missed and crashed into the wall.
The girl dropped 10 the floor in faint, and
1t was first though he had killed her The
women in the fiat ran screaming TO the
street. and there was jam in the narrow
hall as the crowd rushed 10 safety.
Louis Lieherman. AZ years old. and his
son, Meyer, saw Schapiro go into the Cor
don hat. and. suspectins trouble. they fol-
lowed him. They got into the place just
as he fred at Yetta. The elder Lieberman
rushed to grab Schapiro. and the latter
turned quickly and fired. Lieberman fell
with a sroan. the bullet piercing him in
a probably fatal wound. Young Lseberman
then grappled with the murderous fellow.
but once more he fred. This time 1t was
Mrs. Rosenberg, who was hiding back of
the folding door between the two rooms
She ran. slammlng the door after her. and
the bullet crashed over her head, shatter-
ing the glass transom overhead.
Young Liehernan and Schapiro fought
like tiends for a few minutes, and the lat
ter was almost victorious. and was stand
ing over Lieberman about to blow out his
brains, when Detectives Mccarthy and
Harrington. of the East Twelfth street sta
ton, dashed in and felled the would-be
murderer to the floor.
The detectives put the irons on Schapiro
and he was taken to the East Fifth street
station and locked up. DIR. Jones. or Cow
erneur hospital. was called. and he took
the elder Lieherman to the hospital. II
was half an hour before the Gordon girl
was restored to consciousness. and she Is
Frustrated with the shock. The rest es-
capped injury.