Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-10
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WHEN LANDLORD
DIES IN FLIGHT
Friends of Late Samuel Wanger
Jeer as David Lask0witz
Drops in Street.
PURSUED BY ANGRY MOB
WHILE COLLECTING RENTS
tuberculosis Sufferer Died Soon
After Being Elected from
Tenement.

Following the tragic death of David
L~askowitz, landlord. and Samuel Wan
ger, tenant, as a direct result of a dis
possess notice. the Hill section is
aroused today.
Laskowitz fell dead with heart failure
yesterday afternoon when a frenzied
mob Of several hundred indignant
women n children chased him along
Prince street. in the heart of the Jew
ish district.
Murderer" "Bloodsucker!!" We're
the epithets they hurled at him.
Call Death a R%etributIon.
Laskowitz's death, which to the in
censed tenants of the big tenement
house at 228 Charlton street, seemed
merely a swift retribution for what
they considered his humanity, fol-
lowed by only W days that of the
tenant whom he had elected.
The neighborhood has rarely been SO
aroused, because Laskowitz was a re-
spected member of the Congregation
OF Mishnyes and a man of supposed
charity. He was the owner of twelve
large t~enements-a power in the Jew
ish district where he lived.
ANAAC ilpl1tt6 oBO u shioit ldilAilJt
Samuel wanger, his wife and two
children, moved into 22s Charlton
street. Their rent was $40 a month,
Could Not Pay Rent.
For three months Wanger paid reg
ularly. But he was a tuberculosis suf-
ferer. Soon he found he could not earn
enough money to feed his wife and
children and still pay his rent. Every
month he rave the landlord a little
less, until finally he was 500 in debt.
L~askowitz. foreseeing the inevitable
end, asked Wanger to move, but he
was so i'll that he could not. Then the
landlord went to the District Court
and obtained a formal dispossess no.
tice, which vas served upon the Wan
ger family Tuesday.
They were elected, however.
Neighbors took them into their own
crowded rooms. In the morning Wan
ger was found dead.
When Laskowitz, who lives at Z Ran
kin street, appeared for his rents yes
terday he quickly became aware of the
hostile feeling of the neighborhood
toward him.
School was coming out, and the chill
Va "a III 1 ilthI LilG ldIldiOId
had been guilty of something wrong
from the words of the women, gath
cred about.
Then Mrs. Wagner. with her Swear
old and her 20-month-old babies, left
the home of Louis Kamowitz, where
she is staying, and rushed toward her
former landlord.
you took my husband!' she
screamed. Nov her my childrenl"
The angry crowd became more
threatening and Laskowitz backed
away. Finally he started to run. In
full view of the pursuing mob, he
pitched forward and fell. He was dead
when the hooting crowd reached him.
Louis Myers, a son-in-law of Las
kowitz, defended the landlord today.
He said that Laskowitz was highly re-
spected in Jewish circles, that the
Wangers had been behind in their rent
for a long period of time, that their
ejectment vas in 10 way cruel or
heartless and that the rage shown by
the %neighbors of the Wangers was en-
tirely unjustif1able. He remarked that
his fa~ther-in-law had, indeed. beer as
lenient to the unfortunate man and his
family as could be expected.