The daily gazette., 1883-11-20
THE MAYBEE TRAGEDY.
REMARKABLE EFFECT OF THE
TERRIBLE AFFAIR.
THE BLIND is MADE TO SEE
The shock of the Wound and the Horror
of the Bloody Tragedy Restores May
bees Sight.

BRooKvrLLE, L. l., Nov. 19.-EarIy thie
morning people began to gather at the house
OF .Gerritt Maybee and guards had to be
placed at the doors to keep the crowds from
surging through the house. Edward NJ.
Griffin watched with Mr.. Maybee all night,
The wounded man slept fairly well. He
awoke when 1t was broad daylight. As be
turned in Is bed towards the door he said.
In wonderi ED, can see tkat door. / can
see the lodi. lean see the light" Then
holding up his hands: 81 can see my hands,
The sight is dim, but yet | see." When
the doctor arrived Mr.. Maybee was
In his usual seat at the window in
the sitting room. He then said be
could see the white fence by the
road and could see any one standing before
him, but not distinctly enough to recognize
the features. Mr.. Maybee has been unable
to see anything or distingui h the light for
over year. There was a complete paralysis
of the optic nerve. DIR. Whitney accounts
for the partial recovery of sight by saying
that the force of the blows, the bleeding and
the mental shock operated on the optic
nerve much as an electric shock might, re-
storing Its sensibility. Mr.. Maybee will
probably further regain the use of his eyes.
The effect of restored sight on the whole
system of Mr.. Maybee was greatly encour-
aging to his friends. He was calmer In mind
and much stronger in body than any one
anticipated.
Soon after II o'clock tie Coroner and his
jury filed into the dining room to begin the
inquest When all was ready old Mr.. May
bee was wheeled in his chair through the
folding doors to place at the table DIR.
Whitney sat at his side, to see that the ex-
citement OF an examination did not injure
him. Mr.. Robert Townsend conducted the
examination as representative of the Dis
trict Attorney In quiet way Mr.. Maybee
fold dfAfh VxttE
| house to go to the barn, OF the subsequent
entry of the tramp, of the terrible blows
the tramp gave him, of his cries for help,
OF the entry, alter what seemed an
age to him, of his friends and neighbors, md
how he buried them of to the barn "After
what seemed half an hour" he continued,
81 heard them return ami heard them talk
| ing among themselves In low voices. re-
| cognized the voice of Jacob Fitting / told
them to let me know the worst. / was pre-
pared for the worst. Then Mr. Fitting said
/ he might as well tell me that my wife and
child were dead-dead-"
The old man lost control of his voice, tried
| to speak second time and then, clasping
his hands above his had, he fell back in his
chair, trembling as If in preat agony and
wholly exhausted. He was cared for by the
| doctors and his daughter.
| AS Mr.. William Slmonson, who lives a
| mile south of Glenhead. was hitching np hia
| horse TO drive over to the inq lest he saw
tramp pass his house. The man went to
| the railroad CT ossing, started up toward
Glenhead and then turn around and
walked south toward Rosylyn. The tramp
| answered the d sc:iption of the alleg, d mur-
derer. Mr.. Simonson employs a colored
man named Bray. Bray followed the tramp
and MIR. Simopson and his son, w. FL. drove
/ rapidly to Rosylyn and sent out Deputy
Sheriff James Gillespie. Gillespie met the
| tramp alking with Bray where the turn
pike crosses the railroad, just north
of Rosylyn. He was at first retieent.
The sum of S21.34, in bills, silver and
| pei nies, was found on him. He said he had
more, but gave part to ehum to secure
lawyer in case he was arrested. He said his
name was James Doyle. He said he earned
the money in Coldspring, but aiterward he
/ said he earned it In Queens, working for
Farmer Hendrickson. He said he had been
a week tramping from Coldspring and that
on Saturday night he was In Westburg.
The people in Brookville claim that the
murderer slept in the Poorhouse on
Friday night. Doyle admitted that
he SLEPT there that night and was
the only tramp in the Poorhouse.
| The keeper says that the tramp got
up early Saturday morning, growled at him
because breakfast was not ready, and said
he could get breakfast sooner at some of the
/ houses anu Went Oh. Wnen arrested ne
wore Derby hat. He had slouch hat in
his pocket. Before Justice Losee, of Rosy
| lyn, he said he came from Holbrook Suffolk
county, and that he slept Sunday night in
Farmer Posts barn, In Westbury. He de-
MED that he had committed any crime. 1t
was thought in Brookville that Doyle would
be brought before the Coroner. A man
from Rosylyn said that the reason
he was not sent over was that those in
charge of him wanted to know
where the money for the expense for
transportation was to come from first.
George Francis Brown, who was arrested
at Jamaica on suspicion of being the culprit,
confessed that he saw the deed committed
by another man, who was with him. He
was taken to Rosylyn and identified
DoNle as the n urderer. The Brooklyn
police tonight arrested three men who are
believed to answer the description of the
suspected Brookvlle tramp. 0ne of them
was the man who boarded the Long Island
train at Westbury on Saturday night and
who jumped off at the Flatbush avenue de-
pot. He is known to the police as John Nc
Cormack, and has always been considered a
harmless fellow. There was nothing in his
possession belonging to the murdered fam
lily. John Miller, German, Al man
named David Poor, painter, were also ar
rested on suspicion.
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The Armstrong VIII Verdict Set Aside.