Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1924-04-04
PROMINENT
WOMAN
Boarder Had Been Told He
Must Find Another Place
to Live
ROMAN WILL RECOVER
authorities See No Grounds
for Love Affair Theory
Coroner Has Letter
ROMAN WILL RECOVER

METUCHEN, April 4-Frederlck
Gould, thirty years old, boarder
for five years ut the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Chris christensen, corner
Of the Old Post road and Mill lane,
Raritan township, just across the
Metuchen borough line, shot Mrs
Christainsen at 4:S0 o'clock yester-
dav and then turned the revolver on
himself, firing shot that proved
fatal to himself. Tt is believed Mrs.
christensen, who is in st. Peters
hospital, New Brunswick, will re-
cover.
The motive for the shooting can
not be learned but letter, written
by Gould yesterday to a brother,
Jesse L. Gould of New York City, ~
reported to contain certain sugges-
tions that he planned to commit sui
eide. Coroner Hubbard found the
letter on Gould's body but refus "a
to dtvulge the contents as he said It
was purely personal matter ana
\ontained only private matter.
The suicide and attempted murder
bines as a shock to Raritan town
lin and Metuchen, where Gould
and Mrs. Christiansen are well
known. Mr.. Christensen is a mem
bef Of the township Board of Edu-
cation and he, his wife and Goulo
khave been held in high estimation
during the last few years. They nave
been active in civic and social al
fairs.
County Detective John R. Fergu-
son. conducting the investigator lol
+he county, declared his findings
and interviews with neighbors gave
no grounds for the belief that the
motive was caused by the dead
mans admiration for the woman he
shot. Gould is said to have been
highly regarded in the community
and all possibilities of a love affair
having caused the shooting nave
been discarded.
Gould. who was thirty years old.
was employed as a machinist at the
Powers Adding Machine Company in
New Brunswick. For the past five
years he has been boarding, with the
Christiansen's. Gould is said to have
complained to Mrs. Christensen last
Saturday of the meals pot being
ready on time which resulted in his
telling Mr.. and Mrs. christensen
( yesterday that he would have to
seek another boarding house.
In statement made from her bed
I'm the hospital, Mrs. christensen
/. said she was sitting in the kitchen
yesterday afternoon, when Gould
entered. She said she tried to carry
on q conversation with him but he
refused to talk. Instead. she said.
he looked at her in a peculiar way.
his eyes having a CLASSY stare. The
woman said she sat. down to table
and rested her chin in her right
hand as she gazed out of the win
dow The next thing she knew,
she said, was a shot and the pain
caused by the bullet passing through
\ her Jaw, right hand and opposite
cheek. Gould then turned the gun
on himself and fired one. shot into
his right temple. He dropped, death
coming instantly.
Hearing the shots, Christensen.
who was upstairs, ran to the. kitchen
and found his wife and Gould with
bullet wounds. DR.. Alfred L. Ellis,
OF Metuchen, was summoned and
gave the woman emergency treat
ment before she was taken to the
hospital. Her condition was at first
reported as being probably fatal but
the hospital this morning said her
condition was not critical. An X-ray
will be taken, however, to determine
she injury done by the .SS calibre
bullet. Lieutenant Albert Davis. of
thes Karitan township police. was
knotified and he at once notified the
prosecutor's Office of the shooting.
\ Mrs. christensen, who is forty
years old, Is employed in the gun
department at Raritan Arsenal. Her
husband besides being member of
the school board is a foreman at the
{ Raritan River Sand Company's
.5lant.
Gould also has a sister, Regina.
living at 1917 Grand Concourse, New
York. The county authorities are
getting in touch with Gould's rela-
tives.