Connecticut western news., 1890-10-15
SHOT DEAD BY A MANIAC
He Was Mary Anderson-Nav-
 arro's Insane Lover.
A BROOKLYN DOCTOR HIS VICTIM

Insane asylum and asked to see the super intendent, pr. Fleming. The assistant superintendent, Dr. George F. Lloyd, rec ognized him as having escaped from the asylum fortnight ago and sought to en. gage his attention.
 A Dangerous Visitor.
 The spectacled crank stood bareheaded in the doorway of the office with a big, brand new, glistening revolver in each hand. His eyes were gleaming with the light peculiar to a dangerous lunatic, and Dr. Lloyd and his companions, Drs. Nc Greal and Ashford and Drug Clerk Schnei- der, instantly realized that they were in extreme peril. Their first thought was to pacify the madman by soothing words and then overpower and disarm him. He stood in the doorway for 8 moment glaring at the frightened men, and then said in savage tone: "Where is Dr. Fleming?" Dr. Lloyd nervously fingered the paper before him and answered:
 ''Dr Fleming had just p0t on his hat and coat and gone out"
 A Moment of Terror.
 Dougherty remarked gruff1y, still staring at the young physician, II don't believe it." Then he walked to the door of the pharmacy, which adjoins the office on the north, and backed in, covering the four men with his revolvers. "He is not in there, anyhow" he said. Dr. McGreal, white as plaster. stood directly in range of the weapons with his back to the 1unat1c. It was only few seconds that Dougherty was behind him, but he says it seemed like half an hour. Dougherty moved toward Dr. Lloyd, who was still sitting at his desk in the middle of the room,
 The doctor said, in conciliatory tone, looking calmly into the muzzle of the two self cookers:
 "Dougherty, you ought to be ashamed of yourself to want to hurt Dr. Fleming. He has always been a good friend of yours."
 The Young Physician's Murder.
 The lunatic said nothing He coolly walked up to the doctors chair, placed the muzzle of the larger revolver (which is nearly foot long) almost against the doc tors left side and fired. The bullet pierced the young physicians heart and went clear through his body He threw up his hands, arose convulsively from his chair, and ex- claimed: "Oh, Doughertyp' While he was toppling, with his life already gone, the assassin sent another bullet through the doctors neck
 He Wanted Another Victim. Dougherty then left the asylum and started for the Kings County hospital, with the avowed intention of killing Dr. Arnold, one of the surgeons there, but fort unately that gentleman was out. From the latter place his steps were lost until he was arrested at the New York terminus | of the bridge as he was alighting from a l train and taken to the Oak street station. | His arrest was due to Dr. Edwin w. Ash l ford, of Washington, D. C., one of the I special enumerators who was taking the census of the asylum at the time of the l murder. He followed Dougherty to the hospital, where the murderer threatened l to shoot him, but he eluded the maniac Capture of the Maniac. Dr. Ashford had just come over the bridge, after notifying the Brooklyn police, reasoning that the murderer would | return to New York on the very next train. Dougherty came and was arrested. l Dougherty still had the two revolvers, and 1 in his pockets were number of manu l scripts and several letters One of the let l lers was addressed to "Mrs Mary Ander son Navarro" and read:
 | He Wished Her Happiness. l MY MARY-I must now bid you good by. wish you all happiness You deep 1 ly wronged me, but I understand the ex l tenuating circumstances, and freely for | give you. It's ever thus; I am hurt by l those love. I have no wish to leave you Now, Mary, be good, happy and true" Another letter rambles incoherently about God and love as follows: ''I use tho term 'it' to represent our God, instead o he or she as I do not think God is sexual 1 Maybe in the future phase of existence this may be granted. If there be mating in it intend to be awful good to you Sometimes was afraid of you. It was sort of hero worship.
 He Signed Himself ''Jimmie."
 "You were my heroine and are so yet. did love you; if I loved I hate. In con cluding, Mary, advise you to study spirit ualism It is full of frauds This is hu man nature. The other life is very neal to us. I can hope to meet you there. wish you would attend to my manuscripts There is no friend to take interest in my discoveries and they would help the world if diffused. I arose so poor and lowly tha none takes note of them. These, the chil dren of my brain, my orphans would wish to live on, and now farewell
 JIMMIE" | He Expected to Die.
 Other letters were addressed to his moth er Mrs. Margaret Dougherty, Clean, N. Y. MT. Lewis Spader, New York, and Charles O. Pearson, room 59, war department Washington, D. c. Dougherty was con fined in the Kings county asylum twenty two months and escaped on Sept. 26. It i learned that last Thursday he bought tw' revolvers at 43 Bowery to kill Dr. Fleming and he admitted at the station house tha he went to Brooklyn to kill and fully ex pected to be killed himself
 Dougherty's Mad Infatuation.
 Dougherty gained wide notoriety by hi mad infatuation for Mary Anderson. HI followed her to Europe, and disturbed he here and in other cities while she was act ing by his attentions. He met her onc' when she returned from abroad, and wa! arrested for the explosiveness of his devo tion. Dr. Lloyd, whom Dougherty killed was 32 years old and unmarried. He wa! once surgeon on a steamship of the Meth erlands-American line. He succeeded Dr John l.. McCumber as assistant superin tendent of the Flatbush asylum abou three years ago. Dougherty will be turned over to the Brooklyn authorities.