Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-08
WITH GUN AND RAZOR
One Woman Murdered and An
other is Fatally Hurt.
MAN THEN SHOT HIMSELF
Manicure Would Not Kiss Florist and
He Tried Wholesale Murder.
FLAT HOUSE SCENE OF CRIME
Tragedy in Eighty-second Street the
Outcome of Husband Selling
His Newsstand.
LAT HOUSE SCENE OF CRIME

Wle0eman, VINO kept the manicure shop IN
the Hotel Endicott, is dead, Pauline Ratel,
a young woman-who lived with her, and
George Failon, florist at Columbus ave-
nue. and S1st street. are seriously If not
fatally wounded, and Frederick Bergman Of
261 West 15Sd street is slightly wounded
and Fallon did it all last night in the
Wiedeman apartments, so West SD -treet
Before she died Mrs. Wiedeman said that
Fallon slashed her and the others with
razor and then shot her and himself.
Mrs Wiedeman lived with her husband
John a man of fifty years, in apartments
on the fifth floor. After dinner last night
they were sitting in the fiat with Miss Ratel
and Bergman but Wicdeman, complaining
of feeling i'll, left them soon to get medi-
cine at drug store. Not long after ne
had gone, Fallon, according to story told
the police by Bergman, called upon Mrs.
Wiedeman.
In a short time, while Miss Ratel and
Bergman were in another part of the room
from the other two, Falon seized Mrs
Wiedeman around the waist ana attempted
to kiss her. She resisted. and the otner
two came to her assistance. Fallon, who,
either from liquor or some other cause,
seemed to be out of his head, struggled with
them until they were all in the bedroom.
There he grabbed razor from bureau
and cut a deep cash in Mrs. Wiedeman's
throat
Before the others had time to appreciate
what he had done, Fallon turned on them
and slashed them viciously Bergman went
down with a cut across the forehead, ana
Miss Ratel was slashed twice across the
face One cash was across the mouth and
cut the tongue in two. The other was
deep cut near the right ear
Shot Woman Through Heart.
Bergman, who though unable to move.
he says, was still conscious, declares
that Fallon next cut Mrs. Wiedeman sec
ond time across the throat with the razor,
she lying PROSTATE on the floor at the
time and then drew a revolver and shot
her twice over the heart. He then shot
himself in the right eye.
Nat to make a call, knocked on the door
and was refused admission. He then
started to force the door and had partly
opened it when some one from inside shot
at him. Other circumstances he did not
recall or was TOO weak to remember.
Mr.. Michael Lee. dentist living on one
of the lower floors. heard the shots and,
running out to give an alarm, met John
Wiedeman returning. He tod Wi dcman the
shots had come from his apartments, and
Wiedeman ran from the house crying Muir
deri'
At about the same instant the same cry
was uttered by Paul Wilstach. manager
for Viola Allen from the window of his
apartments on the floor below Wiedeman $.
Mr.. Wilstach had been appr!sed of the
shooting by Miss Ratel. She had managed
to reach his apartments and as She stag
gered in cried There is murder on the
floor above Help me! Help met
Fell Unconscious
Miss Ratel then fell unconscious. She
had not recovered consciousness up to a
late hour last night and it is believed that
she will not recover. Policeman Levins re-
sponded to Mr.. Wilstach's cries for help.
He found Mrs. Wiedeman lying on the
floor with Fallon kneeiing over her, slash
ing her with a razor and pulling her hair.
Levns feIled him with a heavy blow with
the night stick. Mrs. Wiedeman was still
conscious.
''Who is that man. Levins asked her.
George Fallon." was the reply.
"IS that the man who killed you?
yes" she whispered and then lapsed
into Inconsistencies.
DR.. edward w. Chamberlain of JOG West
SD street arrived just as the statement
was concluded. In very few minutes
Mrs Wiedeman died in his arms.
The police think that either of the bullet
wounds would have killed her. Each was
directly above the heart. The razor cuts
were long, deep slashes on the side of the
throat. -
Mrs Wiedeman was thirty-six years old
She was an attractive woman.
Fallon lived in the apartment and, &C
cording to a supplementary story told by
Bergman late last night, had conceived a
violent infatuation for Mrs. Weldeman.
Weideman, both Bergman and Weideman
himself said, knew of this infatuation, and
Fallon had received notice that he must
leave them in day or SO.
Ran to a Drug Store.
Bergman ran to a drug store as soon as
he recovered from the shock of his wound
apparently leaving the fiat at about the
same time as the Ratel woman. AT store
at AGO Columbus avenue his wound was
dressed and he there telephoned for ply
sician In the telephone booth he tainted
He was arrested there while still uncon-
scious and held by the police as witness.
The shooting attracted an enormous
crowd to the scene, guests pouring out or
the Endicott the Colonial and other hotels
in the neighborhood, and the crowd block
ing the street for hundreds of yards The
reserves were called out to keep the crowd
in order.
The wounded were taken to the Roose-
welt Hospital. The doctors there think tal-
lon will die. Bergman's wounds turned out
to be not very serious and at midnight the
police were arranging to remove him to
the station house. The fiat house in winch
the shooting occurred is in good neigh
ro.Ioad Otto Harlan the actor is one