The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-20
SHOT DOWN IN HIS FACTORY.
UOMlN 70 WHOM HE OWED
MONEY CHARGED WITH CRIME.
ChattIns with Salesman When Mime. de
Msssy Entered, Gustaye simon Asks
Her TO wait for Psy-Dies Later From
bullet wound I'm His Left Breast.

Bullet o In HIS Left Breast.
Gustave Simon. president Of the Queen
Waist Company, was shot by a French
woman, who says she is Baroness A~nastasie
Louise de Massey, yesterday afternoon in
his Office on the sixth floor of the
Holtz Building, at e04 Broadway. He died
At 8 O'Clock last night in st. Vincent's Hos
pital. Coroner Acritelli tried to get an
ante-mortem statement from Simon, but
the manufacturer was unconscious from
the time he was brought to the hospital.
Nine. de Massey had been working for
Mr.. Simon as a shirtwaist designer and
went to his Office at J o'clock to collect
wages due her. she told the police. Ac-
cording to the stories of the shooting that
the police got from the woman and from
the wounded man and another man, she
got in a rage because Simon wouldn't pay
her the instant she demanded the money.
This is the story the police got: MIR.
SIMON was sitting at his desk talking with
\. II. Travis Of 0ssining. n of his sales
men. when Nine. de Massey. black haired,
black eyed. pale. a tall. we'll dressed woman
Of ~ years Of age. opened the Office door
and walked in. Simon looked up, recog-
nized her as a designer who had quit her
job last Friday and asked her what she
wanted.
II want my money. she said.
You will have to come back at half past
g." said Simon.
NO, | must nave il now, said Nine. de
Massey.
Well. you won't get it now" said Simon.
turning to Travis.
The woman turned around and stepped
out into the hallway. fumbling at a pocket
- tho 1lirf IF har Stnht Gkxtn1 Ala,lr 1ro.s
Simon went on talking to Travis. and neither
Of the men noticed that Nine. de Massey
was still just outside the Office door, still
fumbling with the pocket. The next thing
they knew she was standing in the doorway
with a revolver in her hand. eyes flashing,
face flushed. evidently furiously angry.
Simon sprang up and ran toward the
door, while Travis jumped to his feet with
a shout that scared the waist models and
the sewing girls in the adjoining room.
Nine. de Massey backed'a little way into the
hall, said something 10 Simon and then
fired. The first bullet. missing Simon
widely, went through a glass partition be-
tween the Office and the room where the
models we're working and buried itself ia
the opposite wall.
She fired again almost instantly aud the
bullet struck Simon in the left breast,
burying itself under the shoulderblade.
She shot once more, and this bullet went
wild. going into the hall ceiling just over
the Office door.
Nine. de Massey turned and ran down the
hall toward the st airwsy. Mr.. Simon fell
IN the floor near the door. In a minute
the whole building a buzzing. The
waist models poured out Of their workroom
screaming. two or three of them Historically
crying that they had been shot. One girl
tainted and didn't come to until a glass OF
ice water had been sprinkled on her face.
Two or three men with a few gra ms Of
common sense got busy with the girls and
persuaded them 10 keep quiet, telling them
that the trouble was all over.
The banging of Nine. de Massy's pistol
had been heard all over the building. and
within a few minutes the hall of the sixth
floor was crowded with panicky young
women and excited clerks. Simon's Office
door was open and all couEdsee the wounded
man lying on the floor while Travis. STOPPING
blood from the hole in his breast.
Policeman Rogan of the Mulberry street
station pushed through the crowd in the
hall shortly, with his hand gripping the
wrist of the ~Frenchwoman, who was smiling
and apparently cool. Rogan had the re-
volver in his other hand. After shooting
Simon the woman had run down the five
flights Of stairs, putting the revolver in
o paper bag az she ran and leaving II at
the bottom Of the second fight.
As she started through the gro und floor
hallway she was stopped by two men who
work in the building. Solomon Schiller and
Otto Sicher. They. as well as dozens OF
Others who were on the ground floor. heard
the shots, and when Nine. de Massey walked
rapidly toward them they got in front, OF
her and barred the way. She demanded
that they let her pass, but the men, seeing
that she hadn't a pistol. grabbed her arms
and held her. Sicher ran out for a police
man, leaving Schiller with the woman.
She cooled down and submitted to capture
amiably. Sicher came back With Rogan.
who asked the woman to &C back upstairs
muzzle OF a revolver sticking out o. paper
bag on the second landing and took that
along.
Simon was badly hurt evidently, but was
conscious when Rogan vent INTO the Office
stantly and managed to tell Rogan what
bad happened. Travis told the same story
and then Rogan formally arrested Nine;
de Massey. who smiled pleasantly and sald
she was willing to 90 along. Both simon
and his salesman declared positively that
the shooting was caused by Nine. de
Massy's anger over failure 10 collect her
money OIL the spot.
took care OF Simon and transferred him to
the hospital. DIR. Dunlop said that simon
was dangerously hurt and that IL would
he impossible to tell whether he would re-
cover until the bullet had been probed for.
hogan TOOK wine. ue NhdHcy NAU-
berry street station, where the detectives
questioned her. She denied shooting Simon
and the detective failed to get any admis-
sion from her other than that she went 70
collect SIS which, she insisted, Simon owed
her for her work as shirtwaist designer.
She denied that the revolver belonged to
her.
She said she went to Simon's Office last
Wednesday to sell goods and that he en-
ployed her then to work for him as de:
signer. She quit work Friday and waited
until yesterday before going to Simon Tor
her money. Travis, who went TO the sta;
tion house. told the detectives that he had
seen the shooting and that Nine. de Massey
fired after Simon told her he wouldn't pay
her until closing time.
She told the rolioe that her maiden name
vas Anastasie Louise de Luive Vernon.
She has been a professional designer sne
said. for eighteen years, ever since her huE-
hand died in Paris, where she was born.
She gave her address az 81 West Thirty
seventh street, but the janitor OF the house
Lcpied that she lived there.
When Mr.. Simon died in 81. VinceDt's one
a e.