HUSBAND SHOOTS WIFE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 258, 22 March 1913, Page 2 (Supplement)

HUSBAND SHOOTS WIFE

SON'S SWIFT i: KTRIIU'TION.

San Francisco, February 22.

From Oakland, California, conies a short Story of swift retribution. Hyman Goldberg,'a travelling salesman, from Portland. Oregon, shot and instantly killed his wife, and a few minutes later met his own death at the hands of his 21-vear-old son.

(ioldberg arrived in Oakland on an early train yesterday in search of his wife, from whom he had been separated for more than a vear. He located her and his son in a flat in 12th street, and walked into her room. "Hello, Rose, dear," was his greeting, and immediately he opened fire with a revolver. His wife fell mortally wounded, with two bullets in her throat. Charles Goldberg, a druggist's clerk, was asleep in the next room, but the noise of the shots awakened him. lie jumped from bed and rustled into the next room to lind his father standing over his mother, with the -looking revolver still in his hand. lie grappled with the older man. and after the bitter had lired two shots wrested the weapon from him. and sent two bullets info bis father's hodv. llyman Goldberg died on the wav to the hospital. The -on notified ihc police, and told (hem that his .father had been greatly worked up by the ■iepavulion from the mother. llvnian Goldberg was 41) years old. and bis wife :W.