The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-01-20
MURDERS FATHER TO
Save The LIFE Of
YOUNGER BROTHER
WEALTHY JUNK DEALER OF NEW
JERSEY lsSvicTiM or HiS
OWN SONS WEAPON.
RUSHED TO MOTHERS ASSISTANCE
Friedman Struck His Wife With a
Chair, and Younger Son Tried to
Aid His Mother--Father Was Pow.
erful and a Physical Giant. r.

NEW YORK, Jan. 1S.-HymaD
Friedman, forty-eight years old, and
a wealthy junk dealer Of Patterson,
N. j., was shot and killed by his
twenty-one-year-old son, Isadore, yes
terday morning in q quarrel resulting
from the fathers attentions to Annie
Oalp, a servant, In the Friedman
household. The boy put ten bullets
into his fathers body while the latter
was strangling Archibald Friedman,
nineteen years old, another son, who
had undertaken to defend his mother
against the old mans attacks.
! After shooting his father young
Friedman went to the telephone and
summoned an ambulance from the
general hospital The surgeon found
the victim dead. Then the youth tel.
ephoned to the Patterson police and
gave himself up. He was held on d
charge Of homicide, and win be ar.
raigned before Supreme Court jus
tice Minturn this morning. H
The sympathy Of the people OF Pat,
terson is with the boy, and Justice
Mintnrna will be asked to release him
under bail. 1t is said he can obtain
tbondsmen to any amount. The fore
most merchants Of Patterson have
rallied to his support. -
The Friedman family has been in
"a turmoil for many months because
of the fathers attentions to other wo
men. Mrs. Friedman and her chil
|dren, including her eighteen.yearoh
daughter, recently left the father
Two weeks ago they became recon
ciled and the home was sre-establish.
ed at No. 9 Patterson street. Annie
Oalp, who is thirty-fve years of age
was engaged to do the housework
Friedman Immediately began showing
devotion to the servant and neglect
| ing his wife. Mrs. Friedman remon
strated with him, as did the two sons
and the daughter. They were told tt
mind their own business.
On Saturday Mrs. Friedman dis
charged the girl.
| Yesterday morning when the hus
band arose and found that the OlaI
woman was no longer in the house
he ordered his wife to go out ant
bring her back.
i This, Of course, Mrs. Friedman re
fused to do, whereupon Friedman be
gan to abuse her. He lashed himself
into high temper, and finally picket
up chair and struck his wife on tn,
head with 1t.
! Archibald, younger son, rushed t
his mothers assistance. AS he at
tempted to pick her up from the floor
the father caught the boy by the
throat and backed him into a corner
Archibald is an undersized youth
The father weighs about 230 pounds
and was an extremely powerful man
He crowded the boy against the wal
and clutched him about the throat
The lads face turned blue, and he
was slowly strangling to death, 1t IL
said, when Isadore ran into his OWE
room and returned with two loaded
Irevolvers, each containing FIVE car
ltridges. These he discharged and
the father sank to the floor, dead.
After Isadore was arrested and com
United to the county jail, the police
went in search of Annie Oalp She
was found at her home later and de
ltained as witness. The case win b
presented to the grand jury with the
utmost dispatch and a quick trial OBJ
ltained. The Friedman family d
very well known In Patterson.