New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-04-25
HOMICIDE IN A LUNATlC ASYLUM.
,yvA ATTIC ,,N wARps ISLAND KILLED BY ANOTHER

n LCHAIIC ON WAkAD
WITHOUT WARNING.
f,hor1as Denzer an inmate Of the Wards Island
fanatic ASYLUM, killed Terence Shlelos. an9 %
natient on Friday, In fit of sudden violence DeI-
ser Re- miner In 1871, immediately aiteT us alIi
val In this country, be was sent to the Eplgran,t
ASYLUM and in 1874 was tTanterre9 70 Mn nas q
Island whore he has remained since nnafic
He lived ct No. $50 Washing on-st until looo, WEI
he was sent to the BlackwelIs Island insane AsS ~
Inn, and In the fifteen years he spent there ana on
Wards Island his friends gradually lost slgnt VI
him and left him to his fate. Both men were o?n,
sIdered ouiet and harmless Though Denzer Iw WIZ
attempted 70 take his own ire ne other PATIENTS
The two made themselves usetul aDouI Ene J n
ton in various ways and were lOoge at;ents in the
In the basement with hIty otneI PaVA0"''' " W.
charge of four attendants. , .o.o ohont IN
On Friday morning, as the men were apou nna ~
SSS Ga Synd ssd him to take from closet
next the pantry long and heavy wInuo%-s'tiILa a
which he wanted to use Denzer vent 70 OeeS oGo
order Shields sat by the door OF the Closet rea9-
inc. and held It open till De1zer came cut hlS
head was bent and he did not observe Denzer, WIZ
without word, lifted the heavy stick ana UrGngS
X down uuonhis head with all his force. Snlei9s
fell on his face and the broken stick teii pesl9e
him as Keeper keenan, and patient named nanIir
gan sprang upon Denzer, VINO now H sp,Its Hs
was locked Gp Shields fingered till yesterday
| when he died. His skull was broken. ill
The Coroner was informed YESTERDAY, anu WI" on
make an official investigation. Inc asylum oh
Wards Island was built TO hold between 4UD anu
| 400 inmates. 1t contains at present 300. IhT nee
hundred additional patients are lodged outsl9e tne
asylum. New buildings are in the course Oh erec'
| ton to accommodate all.
HEAVY PURCHASE OF REAL ESTATE.
& An unusually large number sof instruments we're
received for record at the Registers office yester,
day' and among them were several deeds OF more
| than ordinary Importance three OF them being
to John Jacob As by which about lao acres f o.
waters of the Harlem River and tCromwelPs creek
| were sold to him for the aggregate sum wa q
| S437 OS3 One of the instruments was from WI
liam II. Morris and wife, and transferred aDol i
800 lots. with water rights lying between Mott
ave. Cromwes Greek, Centralaye Q1e.h hundred
and+ffty-ffth and One hundred sixty -seyentn
sts. for S2l 81 962; by the second, VIM Z; Marrlln
as referee. VIM. III. Norris Augustus N. motifs
VIM H. Morris, ir., Augusta NJ de Peyster AM aaG
juliet B. Morris convened about the same number S1
Il ba O tsa aS Se Of the Hsem Railroad the Hae
River, One-hundred- and hfty-sixth-st and Fleet
| wood Park for S155,252. By the third oeeu M
Aston receives from the same personsnearly {we5ty
two acres of land under the waters OF the HaFlgsn
River and Cromwes Creek for $e2 1872 % me 1ed ~
struments, all of which are dated April n, ai5sO
were drawn by Evarts, Southmayd q Choate
through whom the transfer was made, and are Voiu
| min0ua.