The evening world., 1912-04-08
|ENRAGED GAMBLER
shot GIRL EL0PER,
KILLED HIMSELF
Samuel Beckerman Was Angry
Because Pearl Armstrong
Was About to Leave Him.
! GIRL TELLS THE STORY.
| She Had Fled With Him From
! Canada, Only to Learn He
Was Already Married.
GIRL TELLS THE STORY.

1 proppsd up in bed At shs Fordham
2 Hospital. with her right arm swathsd
-, SaodAses. Pearl Armstrong;. pretty
anA twsnty-four years old. sobbins1y
tfe11 to-day the story Of how she was
~ and Of the suicide Of Samuel Beck
seyuan. thirty years old. with whom she
lhaA lived for ak years.
N II not q new story. ~ stories 20;
just that OF an c&hteen-year-oA girl
sWAo fell In love with q gambler. There
Swere promises Of marriage that were
knsvsr fulfilled and when. harassed by
scoosciencs. she determined to 70 back
10 her people her Infatuated lover shot
Ito kil her and then slew himself.
II first met him at the race track In
kHamilton. Ont. my home city," said
pearl Armstrons. He was dashing and
epolits and appealed to me. I fell In
v1ove with him and he said we would get
married and 90 TO New York n live.
had always wanted 10 live In New
4Yerk. but when I told my parents they
swsrs angry and refused to allow me
Ito marry.
eloPED WITH HIM FROM HAM.
iLroN TO NEW YORK.
sam said we had better elope to New
York. and that we would get married
tas soon a. We reached here. He kept
{putttng the marriage OF. Feeling my
tdisgracs. I aid not dare tell my parents.
Sbut wrote them I was happily married.
6rgsd sam from time to time to marry
inc. but he would and some excuse to
taslsy Il.
After We had Sssn Mving togvthsr
your years I found hs had Q wife and
two children ~ No. 80 East Seventh
;aDtrset. when I told him what I had
diecovsred hs told me that hs Wa going
10 y fer . divorce and marry me. We
shad been fairly happy togsthse until
tthon. After thai NJ began 10 have
tpuarrels from time 70 tina.
- was . gambler. Como weeks We
shad plenty Of monsy and lived In high
eSty1a st other times ~ we're almost
t~pennilsss. During the last year San
wa not work At all and W had Q hard
stfussls. Il was my money that fur.
aietsd the apartment q No. m Bryant
Snvenuc. the Bronx. ana what little ho
~ ebtsia By gambling from time to
tstne vas barely enough 70 buy u food.
Fer . week W had been quarrel.
tn6 almost continuously. I felt he
Ought to 80 to work and I wanted 70
70 back 70 my parents In Hamilton.
yesterday morning We took q walk
Through Bronx Park and quarreled all
che tine. We returned 20 the apart.
pnsnt Ut ! o'clock and Sam went out.
TelLs HIM shE 10 oolNo BACK
q TO HER PARgNTs.
San returned home 1t 9 Z o'clock ana
VA lying In bed reading Q book. We
fetarted Quarrelins again ana finally I
PAID: I'm through with II all. I'm 70.
{nS hack HON to my parents.
going to 90, are your said
FaD and he left the room and slammed
lhe door. He came back In Q minute and
~: You're going to 90, are your I
42on him yes. n then I ssw he had a
revolver.
'Iou are. are you? Thsn take this
ehoutsd Sam n no bean to shoot. I
3sat q pain In my arm. Jumping from
- bed. ] started to run Into the next
Poem. ] heard tho revolver snap a
Hhird time rs I ran. but there was no
Sxpaoson. After ! got into the next
Poem I heard another shot. Looking
pack saw sam falling on the fioor. I
eaa into the hall and screamed and the
hslghbors came In"
Dr.. Forman was called by the neigh
bors but Beckerman was dead with Q
bullet through the right breast. When
. vas searched several pa wn tickets
rUe found In his pockets. Pearl ARM
DtypnG says these tickets represented
~ 5ewslry that he . pledged during
he last few months.
fglLs THE CORONER STORY or
IL THE SHOOTING.
The woman was taken to the hospital,
WHARF she 10 In the care OF DIR. David
Carey. 6he was visited to-day by Coro
AsP Shongut and Detective John Clarh
be the fremont police station. to whom
he told the story Of the shooting.
I'm going back home Just AZ soon ~
can and try to start life all ovei
akealn," she sobbed.
Beckerman's body was identified by hi
brother. Benjamin. who lives ut No. 20
East Seventh street. where Beckerman'i
ow1te and children reside.
The four room occupied by Becker
Jnan and Pearl Armstrong are In q high
klass apartment house overlooking Bron,
Park. n the shooting caused gres
S1c1tement In the neighborhood. The 70
kylons Of h couple had never been sus
oeetsd By their ueighbors.