Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-15
TRAGEDY IN FAST LIFE
STARTLES EAST SIDE
RUSSIAN Count" Shoots Man
andWoman in Jealous Rage.
Former Will Die.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


NEW YORK, December 15.-The East
Side has its theaters and restaurants, a
little city within a city, and this morn
,.-g it had its little tragedy of fast life,
Just what might have happened on Broad
way
4 busted restaurant man waited for
one of the actresses of the Peoples Thea
ter. behind the glass door of the front
stoop of her tenement. at lU7 Forsythe
street, and as she came home with an
other man at 3 am. shot both of them.
The man was mortally hurt. the wom-
an will probably recover. and the police
hold the supposed guilty man.
The prisoner is Hyman Klatzko. born in
Russia. fortythree years old. He has re-
fused thus far to say a single word beyond
giving his name and pedigree to the po-
lice. He is man Of fine figure and dis
tineuished. if dssipated appearance. He
is known on the East Side as the Rus
sian count.
The woman is Lizzie Shapiro. twenty
four years old, and she is in Gouvenir
Hospital with a wound in the back She
is separated from her husband
Little Chance for Mans Recovery.
The injured man is Max Goldberg, a
scene painter at the Peoples Theater.
He is forty-two years old and his home is
n Brooklyn There is little chance of
his recovery because he was shot three
times. Two bullets went through his
right arm and third entered his back
and came out the breast.
All righteous windows in Forsyth street
we're closed last night, according to local
habit, and all righteous lights were out at
the hour when Miss Shapiro. accompa-
MED by the scene painter. came home to
her lodgings. The two walked up the
stoop of the tenement where she lived.
They were about to open the glass outer
door, when it was suddenly shattered.
Shots rang and blazed out fro m behind,
and the beveled glass flew to pieces. The
man and woman scurried down to the
pavement and ran hard up the street. The
woman took perhaps five PAGES before she
dropped in a heap with a bullet in her
back. The scene painter went couple of
PAGES farther before finding his resting
place on the sidewalk Klatzko started to
run away, but he was soon captured by
Policeman Melane. who brought him to
where the wounded man and woman were
lying. The woman identified him.
He shot me and the man there, too. "
she said. AS for the other victim, he
could not do his share in the identifying.
for he was unconscious.
Count Man of Presence.
Lyman Klatzko, as the prisoner termed
himself. seemed to earn his chief title to
the nickname of Russian count by his
fine, big presence. He would not give a
word of explanation to the police. From
others they learned that he been part
owner Of restaurant at 294 Grand street
He had lived in the ways of q rounder.
and had finally sold out his share in the
restaurant to his partner.
In the handbag of the actress was found
some evidence that she and klatzko had
had friendly relations. One postcard adj
dressed to her said:
Let me know when you want to come
to Philadelphia. J. kLATZkO.''
Another said:
Are you SO busy fellow cannot see
YOU? JACK"
The woman was too weak at the hos
pital to tell much of a story. but this
much she did tell the police; that she had
been married, and was now separated
fro~1 her husband. who had a suit pend
ing against Klatzko for the alienation Of
her affections. She did not explain just
how klatzko, too, should have come
among the jealous ones.