Evening journal., 1917-11-13
MOVIE THRILLER IN
FRICK MURDER Case


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Mrs Fitzpatrick would enter the /
scheme. and that the rich former sweet |
heart had been caught in the net Fitz-
patrick planned TO spread for him.
Mrs Frick resoried TO fake tele-
gram. which she got a friend who was
a telegraph operator to FIX up for her
This was dated from the West Virginia
town where Fitzpatrick knew the man
lived. and said Received letter.
Start proceedings at once. ] am leav-
ing for. Wilmington Leave him at
once"
This telegram had to be delivered
with the proper Suggesting. fitz-
patrick and his wife were In their room
at the Flodette on the morning after
the telegram had been faxed Mrs.
Frick stepped out 10 the door OF the
house, rang the bell, hastily slipped
back and then ostentatiously answered
her own ring. In a few minutes she
knocked on the Fitzpatricks' door and
handed in the telegram This was
on the Friday morning before the muir
der.
Fitzpatrick was convinced that his
plot was going well. because he made
arrangements TO leave the house at
once.
The following day. Saturday was 10
be the one on which Mrs Fitzpatrick
was TO leave and go to Philadelphia. In
the morning he called the Flodette by
phone and learned that his wife was
still there, but that she intended de-
parting at five o'clock. Meanwhile he
had been keeping In touch with the
house, through Mrs. Fitzpatricks young
brother, a youth named Joseph Con-
nelly, who was being utilized as a mes
senger and helping TO delude Fitzpat-
rick. What caused Fitzpatrick TO
change his plan Will never be known
Tho detectives are not quite clear what
happened to bring murder into Fitz-
patricks mind, nor Is the attorney
generals office much wiser in this re.
spect. They do know, however, that he
felt something was going on that was
foreign TO his original plot. lie Is said
TO have watched the house on French
street all Saturday afternoon and up TO
$50 o'clock Saturday night Further
more, he went to friend, borrowed
revolver and made a journey TO phlla-
delphia to watch or search hotel
there. Meanwhile. Mrs Fitzpatrick kept
Indoors at the Flodette.
Returning from Philadelphia, Fitz-
patrick told a man In the liquor busi-
ness, the detectives say. that he intend
ed TO go 10 the Flodette and kill his
WIFE showing the borrowed weapon
to that man. The latter fastened to
set into touch with Court Onlcer Hor-
ace Mcdaniel, and inform him what
Fitzpatrick had threatened. Mcdaniel
and the detectives went 10 the Flodette
on Monday and cautioned Mrs, Frlck
and Mrs. Fitzpatrick not TO let Fitzpat-
rick In should he come there. but to de-
lay sufficiently long for them 10 get TO
the house and arrest him. Meantime
search would be made in his accug-
TONED haunts for him.
ON Tuesday morning Fitzpatrick sure
enough turned up. but got no satlsfac-
ton. In the afternoon he went back TO
the Flodette. This time things were
different.
Mrs Frlck, not suspecting that her
end was near. and doubtless thinking
she was capable OF coping with Fitz-
patrick under ordinary conditions, met
him at the door. She started TO tell
him just what he thought OF him as
soon as she let him in Mrs Fitzpatrick.
In an inner room, heard their voices
In the hall and then IN the livlngroom
Mrs. Prick told him he was mo good"
and "a degenerate and that she
thought as much Of his wife as she
would Of her own daughter, and that
Mrs. Fitzpatrick was TO have a divorS~
from him. What more was said me
/ wife didn't hear. because she went into
the bathroom TO hide and sat down on
the floor there.
Just then there was a ring at the
front doorbell, and Mrs. Frick left
Fitzpatrick to answer IL. Leaving the
! livingrOom, Fitzpatrick entered the
bathroom. There he saw his wife
cr0uchng on the floor so it's her,
you are" he said, and Immediately he,
gan firing on her with his borrowed
revolver. Three shots took effect, on,
Of them in Mrs Fitzpatrick's back
Leaving Mrs. Fitzpatrick wounded
and as she at first thought dying, n,
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llivingroom and into the hall, wher,
Mrs. Frick was talking with the mar
who had interrupted their talk by ring
/ ing the doorbell
This man was Samuel Freedman 8
cOncessionaire Of a carnival show ther
in town, and he was hunting a room
lust as Fitzpatrick came into the hal
he fired at Mrs. Frick. So close TO the
weapon was Freedman that the dis
charge burned his face Mrs Prick fell
+. to the floor dying at the feet Of Freed
man.
1 This unfortunate individual was. as he
later said, Scared to death" Visions
8 OF being arrested as a murderer. be-
Sides the shock OF the thing he had
d seen sent Freedman into panic nj
fear with an impulse to get away
! from such dangerous ground Al once
SO he hiked from the han to what IVA.
= Mrs fitzpatrick's room. raced over m,
- bed, tore a screen out Of the window
got through and landed in a little area.
: way, made his way through an adioin
Saving the Wheat
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