St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-10
The Insane Lover Of Mary An
depson-NavaPro Kills a
Physician.
Two Shots Fired at Short
Range Through His Vic
TINS Heart
Northern Pacific and st. Paul
& Duluth Trains Crash
Together.
An Insurance Shark With a
Trepanned Skull Nabbed
in Arizona.

NEW YORK, Oct 9.-Shortlv before 6
O'Clock this evening James NJ. Dough-
erty, the insane lover of Mary Ander-
son-Navarro, entered the Office of the
Kings county insane asylum and asked
to see the superintendent, DR.. Fleming.
The assistant superintendent, George
Il. Lloyd, recognized him as having
escaped from the asylum a fort
night ago and sought to engage
his attention. Dougherty had loaded
revolver in each hand fired them al
most simultaneously, and DR.. Lloyd
fell to the floor and instantly expired,
one bullet lodging in his throat and the
other entering the head. 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. fortunately, that gentle
man was out. From the latter place his
steps were lost until he was arrested at
the New YOrkterminus of the bridge, as
he was alighting from train, and taken
to the Oak street station. His arrest
was due TO DR.. Edwin W. Ashford, of
Washington, d. c.. one of the special
enumerators who was taken the census
of the asylum at the time of the murder.
he followed Dougherty to the hospital,
where the murderer threatened to shoot
him, but he eluded the maniac. DR..
Ashford had just come over the bridge.
after notifying the Brooklyn police,
reasoning that the murderer would re-
turn to New York. On the very next
train Dougherty came and was arrested.
He still had the two reyolvers, and in
his pockets were a number of manu-
scripts anG several letters. One of the
letters was addressed to MRS. Mary
AnderSOn-NayarrO," and read:
My Mary must now bid you good-by. I
wish you all happiness. You deeply wronged
me, but understand the eXtenuating cir
cumstances, and freely forgive you. Its
ever thus i am hurt by those love. have
no wish TO leave you now. Mary, be good,
hap Ply and true.
Another letter rambles incoherently
about God and love as follows:
Il use the term 1t to represent our God in
stead OF He or She as do not think God
is sexual. Maybe in the future phase of ex-
istence this may be granted. If there be
mating in it, / intend TO be awful good to
you. Sometimes was afraid of you 1t was
sort OF hero worship You were my heroine,
and are SO yet. / did love you: If | loved
you to study spiritualism. 1t is full of frauds
This is human nature. The other life is very
near to US. can hope to meet you there
I wish you would attend to my MANUSCRIPTS.
There is no friend to take interest in my dis
coyeries, and they would help the world if
d1Hused. l arose so poor and lowIy that
none takes note OF them. These, the chill
dren of my brain. my orphans. would wish
to live on, and now farewell. JIMMY.
Oct. l, 1890.
Other letters were addressed In his
mother, Mrs. Margaret Dougherty.
Olean. n. Y; Lewis Spader, New
York, and Charles o. Pearson, Room SO.
war department, Washington, ID. c..
Dougherty was confined i'll the Kings
county asylum twenty-five months, and
escaped on Sept. 26. 1t is learned that
last Thursday he bought two revolvers
at No. 43 Bowery to kill DR.. Fleming,
and he admitted at the station house
that he went to Brooklyn to kill, and
fully expected to be killed himself.