Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1890-10-16
SHOT BY AN INSANE MAN
MARY ANDERSoN'S cRA zY
LOVER COMMITS MURDER.
James ID. Dougherty Shoots aud Kills DIR.
George Lloyd of the Flatbush Insane
Asylum-He Plans Wholesale Murder
and His Own Suicide, but Is Arrested.

james ~. DOugherty shoots aud Kills DR.
George Lloyd of the Flatbush Insane
Asylum-He Plans Wholesale Murder
and His Own Suicide, but Is Arrested.
New YORK dispatch.
DIR. George w. Lloyd, tho Assistant
, Superintendent Of the Flatbush Insane
Asylum, was killed by James d. Dough.
erty, Mary Anderson's crazy lover, who
had been generally regarded as ha rm.
| less crank. Dougherty escaped from
the asylum about two months ago by
means OF false key. Since then he has
been frequently seen on Broad way in
this city, and occasionally at Flatbush.
He appeared there with big revolver
OH Sept %, and by threatening the
life OF superintendent Fleming got
his clothing which he had left
trudging through the miry grounds OF
the asylum late this afternoon. He
walked up the wide stone steps of the
main entrance to the asylum, placed his
blackthorn stick and his cloak in the
hallway, and appeared suddenly upon
the vision of four startled men I'm the
Office on the right of the corridor. They
werc DIR. Lloyd, DIR. Thomas j. McGreal,
.
Edwin w. Ashford, of Washington, who
is experimenting the taking of the Fed
eral mortality census in Brooklyn, and
Drug Clerk Schneider.
The specialized crank stood, barehead-
cd, in the doorway of the Office, with a
big, brand-new. glistening revolver in
each hand. His eyes were cleaning
with the light peculiar TO a dangerous
lunatic, and the young physicians in
stantly recognized that they were in ex-
treme peril. Their first thought was to
pacify the madman by soothing words,
and then overpowcr and disarm him. He
etaad- Il, tha daarwop for n mnmnnt
glaring at the frightened men, and then
said, In savage tone: "Where is DIR.
Fleming?"
DIR. Lloyd nervously fingered the paper
before him and answered.: "Dr. Fleming
has just put on his coat and hat and gone
out"
Dougherty remarked grufily, still glar-
ing at the young physician, 81 don't be-
lieve it,"
Then he walked to the door of tho
pharmacy, which adjons the Office on
the north, and backed in, covering the
four men with his revolyers. ale is not
In there, anyhow" he said. DIR. Nc
Greal, white as plaster, stood directly in
range of the weapons, with his back to
the lunatic. 1t was only few seconds
that Dougherty was behind him, but he
says IL seemed like half an hour. Dough-
erty moved toward DIR. Lloyd, who was
still sitting at his desk in the middle of
the room. The Doctor said, in concili-
atory tone, looking calmly into the muz-
zlcs of the two self-cockers: "Dougherty,
you ought to be ashamed OF yourself to
want to hurt DIR. Fleming; he has always
been good friend of yours"
The lunatic said nothing. He coolly
walked up to the Doctors chair, placed
the muzzle OF the large revolver (Which
is nearly a foot long) almost against the
Doctors loft side and fred The bullet
pierced the young physicians heart and
went clear through his body. He threw
up his hands, arose convulsively from his
chair, ard exclaimed, "Oh, Dougherty!"
While he was toppling. with his life al
ready gone, the assassin sent another
bullet through the Doctors neck.
DIR. McGreal ran through the corridor
into the street and shouted "Policc!"
There are no police within half mile of
the asylum. but the druggist didn't think
of that in his excitement. AS Dough-
erty passed DIR. Ashford in the hall the
young Washingtonian noticed that he
was remarkably cool. He still held the
revolvers in his hands, and as he went
out of the door he warned DIR. Ashford
to keep back. But Dr. Ashford is q
man of nerve, and, although unarmed,
ho dotarminod to follow nonghsrty- and.
have him arrested. For nearly three
quarters of mile he kept less than
block behind the murderer on deserted
road.
Every now and then Dougherty would
stop, point his weapons at his plucky
pursuer, and warn him back. But he
kept right on when Dougherty resumed
his fight, sticking his pistols in his hip
pockets. Doughcrty stopped moment
at the Kings County Hospital, near the
asylum, and inquired for DIR. Arnold,
whom he also intended to shoot.
Dougherty was finally arrested after
crossing the Brooklyn bridge. The po-
liceman who captured him took him
around to the Oak Street Station and
turned him over to Acting Captain Ga
han, to whom he unfOlded his plan OF
wholesale murder. He intends to kill
ten or dozen people, beginning with
Dr. Fleming. DIR. Hoyt, the Secretary
of the State Charities Board, was also to
be victim. lie snuffed out the promis-
ing life young DIR. Lloyd because DIR.
Fleming wasn't around.
He Is said never to have been violent
except on the occasion of Mary Ander-
sons return from Europe, and then he
raved about the hallway at night until
Night Clerk Waddell had to call in two
policemen to quiet him. He would stand
for an hour at time in the hotel dim
ing-room surveying portrait OF Mary
Anderson.
From letter written to Louis Spader,
a guest at the hotel, it seems that
Dougherty contemplated suicide after
his campaign OF murder. He said IL was
not worth while to ship his body to his
homo at Olean, Cattaraugus County,
N. Y.
Dougherty gained wide notoriety by
his mad infatuation for Mary Anderson.
He followed her to Europe and disturbed
her here and in other cities while. she
was acting by his attentions. He met
her once when she returned from abroad,
and was arrested for the effusiveness Of
his devotion.
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