The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-11-24
SHOOTS WIFE
And HER CHUM;;
KILLS HIMSELF
Nicholas FOllman Frenzied
When He Fails To Effect Rec
onciliation With Spouse
WOMEN SERIOUSLY HURT
BUT WILL RECOVER
Tragedy Occurs On Street After
Peace Conference Proves
Failure

Unable to induce his wife to return
to him after three months estrange-
ment, and despairing OF reconciliation
when the offices of Police Justice
Stein. as mediator, failed. Monday
evening. Nicholas Follman, 20 years
old. followed his wife and her woman
friend, from the judges house. and in
front of the FNollman home at No. 447
Twenty-eighth-st., shot his wife In the
face, sent bullets into the neck and
cheek OF Mrs. Frances Radner his
wife's chum, then ended his own life
with one bullet that crashed into his
brain.
The two women are In Grace hospi-
tai, and both are expected TO recover,
though their condition Is serious.
Follnan and his wife, who Is Also
% years old, and the mother OF It,
month-oid baby, separated after Mrs.
Follman had had her husband arrest
ed for beating her. They were then
living In the home OF Mrs. Radners
parents, No. 3S1 Thirty-firstst
After Follman bad been found gull
~, and fined s25, with a workhouse
sentence as the alternative. his wife
paid the fine, declaring she did not
want TO send him TO prison But she
said that she would never live with
him again. She remained in the home
OF her chum, and did work as a wash
erwoman 10 support herself and her
baby. The baby was taken each morn
ing TO. the home OF Follmans parents,
where Follman went 70 live after the
separation. Each evening, Mrs. Foil
man would call for the babe. and
take 1t with her, for the night II
was when she stopped to get the baby.
early Monday evening, after refusing
her husbands pleas for reconcilia-
ton, that the shooting occurred.
Follman had asked Justice Stein to
try To effect reconciliation. The Jus
tive had arranged a meeting between
the couple. In hrs home, early Monday
evening. Mrs. Follman. with vague
forebodings OF evil, insisted that her
chum, Mrs. Radner, accompany her.
In the judges home. Mrs. Follman
wept bitterly as her husband promised
good behavior il she would return to
him. She said she thought great
deal OF him, but feared beatings at his
hands, and was obdurate In her refus-
al 10 return to him. For some time
after she and her chum had left to go
to get the baby and then return to
Mrs. Radner's home, Justice Stein
kept Follman In the house. giving him
a fatherly talk. and suggesting that
he try to win back his wife's affection
and confidence, then repeat his re-
quest for reconciliation. Justice
Stein advised him TO send her money,
each week, for the support OF the
baby, and to behave in such manner
as TO make her change her attitude to-
ward him.
Follman, Justice Stein says, was ex-
ceedingly nervous. He seemed anxious
to get away, but the Judge never
dreamed what was in the mans mind
Leaving Justice STEMS house, Foil
man apparently hurried to his own
home. and obtaining a revolver. lay In
hiding in the shadows until the two
women, walking slowly, approached
the front OF the house. There was a
short alteration when Follman made
one last demand for q reconciliation.
Then four shots rang out
Neiehbors found three figures lying
close together on the sidewalk. Foil
man was dead, and the two women,
stunned by the shock OF the bullets,
lay in Inert heaps close by. Detectives
Glinski and Dreher were quickly on
the scene, and had Follman's body re-
moved to the county morgue, while
the wounded women were rushed to
Grace hospital.
Follman was a shoemaker, with a
shop on Dix-ave., near Junction-ave.