Uncertainly continued today as to the positive identification and United States address of the bearded man who opened fire with an American made M-16 automatic rifle into a crowd of Moslem worshippers and tourists on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem yesterday morning.
Israeli police sources yesterday tentatively identified the assailant as Elliot Guttman, 30, who is married and who emigrated from the U.S. six years ago. According to Israeli interior Ministry sources, quoted by Kol Israel Radio last night, his name is Allan Harry Goodman, a 38-year-old bachelor from Tenafly, New Jersey who immigrated to Israel only 13 months ago. According to information obtained by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency from various news organizations today the assailant was not a resident of Tenafly, but from Baltimore. The Baltimore Jewish Times said today that Guttman (Goodman) resided for an unknown period of time in a boarding house in that city. It is now boarded up, the Jewish Times reported.
Further information suggests that the link between the assailant and Tenafly resulted from Guttman’s (Goodman) use of a stolen passport from a female resident of the northern New Jersey town. According to information from The Record in Hack-ensack, N. J., the leading North Jersey newspaper which serves the Tenafly area, Guttman (Goodman) may have been able to use the woman’s passport because of the similarity in their names. No other information was immediately available concerning this allegation.
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