New-York tribune., 1922-12-31
Girl Clad as BOv
Shoots Man and
Self in Street
Cap Falls OFF and BObbed
Hair Is Revealed as She
Drops With a Bullet
Wound Near Her Heart
No Attempt to Escape
I'm Sorry, Max Assailant
Exclaims; Merchant De-
nies That He Knows Her

A slim youth. wearing a navy blue
suit. = dark overcoat and @ gray cap.
loitcred around the corner Of Twenty
18th Street pnd Sixth Avenue last
night The corner is in the heart Of
she loft section and the skyscrapers
nearby are filled with manufacturers
IN the garment trade.
Morris katz has u garment loft az
rs West Twenty-hfth Street re is
married and has q family and lives no
POI South Fourth Street. Brooklyn.
Business kept Katz late In his work
shops last night. ia vas nearly g
o'clock when hc left Oh, building and
turned east.
As Katz appeared tho figure in the
dark overcont and gray cap walked
rapidly toward BIN. When the two
we're abreast the youth pulled a re-
volvsr from bis oycrcoef pocket and
fred three shots At the manufacture.
The drn shot vert Wild. Tho second
grazed the mans right shoulder, and
the third entered and lodged n his
left arm above the elbow.
Turns Revolver on Self
Before he could make a move tho
figure turned the revolver around and
fred one bullet into the left side Of
the dark gray oyereost Then the
youth collapsed on the Sidewalk az
Katz'e feet. The biz gray cap slipped
of the head and q tangle OF buchy.
bobbed black hair was spread on the
muddy sidewalk.
Patrolman Frank Gertner, Of the
West Thirtieth Street station, who was
on most nearby, came running up as
Kat shouted Tor help. He found the
manufacturer on his knees beside the
unconscious figure huddled on the side
walk. He Was muttcring, MY God, It's
a grill"
Gertner commandeered q taxi and
Katz and the woman we're taken 70
New York Hospital side b. side. The
mans injuries were not serious; insg
last shot which the revolver held had
entered the girls. chest Just above INC
heart and had passed almost through
her body. Her condition Is gfa'e.
While she was under the influence OF
the anasthetic a. the surgeons eh,
tracted the bullet she cried again ana
again for "Max."
ann sorry, MAX" she said. Max,
come here. dear, and let me tell you
z Kstl gas ouestioned at the hospital
bv Detectives Boylan and Doyls. ho
said he had never seen the girl peiote,
and denied emphatieally that he had
ever known her or held any eommuhi-
cation with her.
Unable 20 Find Weapon
81. t,lto,s yrhicb were taken out
at The hospital indicate that the
reapon used was 80 caliber suto-
matte pistoL. This the police nave
besn unable 20 find. Il was not IN the
men's clothes which the girl was wear
mo ana an inch By inch search OF the
steeef around the spot where the
sboo,irc occurred also failed 20 dis
ciosc H. The qirl's identity is 30 far
nntnown. Size is dark, weighs about
I20 pounds, and Is FIVE teet Iour in0''' D
tall. ,,..o.. .s..r
The girl was questioned briefly alts. ne.
she had been placed under A1Sss rss
charged with felonious assault In'
doctors attending her reiusea 70 pr
NIT n lengthy examination because y.
her condition. She refused 10 glNe r.. ~.
name or 20 discuss her reasons
shooting KaiT. She said only thHt 'Ns
had a sister living at Clitton, y. =.
The suit OF youths e' ines VIZ :
soft shirt. soft collar and four-in-hsna
necktie which the girl wore as 2 ols-
euise, as we'll as her overeoAI anu cap
were all new.
1be police are investigating the pos
sibllity that Katz may have peen mis- ~
taken FOR some other tenant OF the
loft building.