The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-10
Mrs. Frederick WeiSSman
Lured from Newark
by Fake Message.
HEARD HE WAS DEAD:
MET HER AT DEPOT
Voice at Phone Said Insurance
Money Was Awaiting
Claimant. i
DOUBLE TRAGEDY IN A
PHILADELPHIA HOTEL
After Perhaps MortaIIy Wound
ing Her, Husband Takes
His Own Life.

Lured from the home of friends bv a
te.ephone message that her husband.
from whom she had parted tree weeks
before, was dead, Mrs. Kate Weissman.
% years DID, OF 53S South Twelfth
street. was shot by her usband in A
Philadelphia hotel early today, and Is
now at deaths door in hospital in
that city After shooting hi1 wife, it
is believed that the husband, Frederick.
turned the pistol on himself, as he was
found dead In the room they had both
occupied
Guests at the hotel. the Haynlarket.
at Twelfth and Cambria streets. PhfIa-
deiphia, were awakened by the shots.
and rushed into the hall to find the
young wife staggering opposite the
door She collapsed and fell uncon-
seious on the floor before aid could
reach her. An examination later by
hospital surgeons showed that her skull
mad been fractured by a bullet.
Within the room, in a pool of blood.
was lying the husband. He was shot
through the head and death, said ply
slcians, must have been Instantaneous.
Inc double crime was deliberately
planned, and but for the manning OF
his wife and her chance for recovery
was executed as planned, according to
the Quaker City police. Confirmation
OF this belief is found in revelations
made today at the home OF Edward
katz, a halter, at 53S South Twelfth
street, where Mrs. Weissman had made
her home for the past month.
Last night abol,t 6.20 o,olooL NJ,
Weissman went out to the drug store
nearby to answer a telephone CALI
said Mr.. Katz today. When she re-
turned she was greatly agitated. She
told us all that she had received a
message from Philadelphia, that her
husband was dead and that a sum OF
money, together with $1,000 life insur-
ance was awaiting her there.
1 must go at once, she said. The
money is waiting for me- / asked her
who telephoned her, and she said she
did not know, but she thought her hus-
bands brother did. Anyhow, her hus-
band was dead, she said, and she had
to go to Philadelphia.
Il warned her not to go, but she de-
clared her mind was made up With
out waiting longer she dressed and left
the house in a hurry to catch a train
for Philadelphia. This was about I
o'clock.
Mrs Wessman was married about
year and half ago. Previous to her
marriage she boarded with us Her
maiden name was Katharine Burke
When she married Weissman they went
to Philadelphia to live We had heard
that their married life was not happy,
and We're not greatly surprised when
Mrs. Weissman came back to us about
a month ago and asked if We could
take her back
She told us that she had parted from
her husband, who had nistreated her.
She seemed loath to discuss her family
affairs, and we did not press her for
information, so all we knew was that
she and Weissman did not get along
we'll together. He was what / would
cali tricky, and when she told me last
night that she was going to Philadel
phia on the strength of the message,
said:
Don't GO 1t is probably Weissman,
up to his old tricks again
when the news came today that
Mrs. Weissman had been shot and that
Weissman had killed himself we were
not shocked; in fact, | felt as IL some
thing terrible was about to happen"
Weissman was 40 years old. His
wife was %. Previous 60 his marriage
to her eighteen months ago he was
widower. Four children by his first
wife are said to have been partially
the cause of the separation of the
couple, who quarreled bitterly before
Mrs. Weissman came back to her
friends home in this city.