The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-01-16
C3ANKS AND LUNATICS.
A Crop Of Them in the Windy City OF
the West.

. OFuS store at cottage GrOVe avenue and
Twenty-ninth street at o'clock this after
noon, says q Chicago special Of Jan. Is to
the New York Sun, and asked Clerk Louis
Rode to telephone to DR.. Flavius N.
/ Wilder that a man was dangerously i'll at
{ gig South Park avenue, and that his serv-
ices were desired at once
The clerk sent the message to the house
| and eceived a reply that the doctor would
I visit the patient es soon as he returned
/ from professional visit on Calumet avenue.
/ The big, muscular man seemed greatly
I pleased when he received the answer, and
thanked ths clerk for his trouble. Then he
buttoaed bis heavy overcoat and left the
store.
! One hour later DR.. Wilder, accompanied
/ by Coacaman Samuel Reed, drove up to the
/ big boarding house at Pig South Park
avenue. He leapsd out OF mis- cutter, ran up
the stairs and rang the bell. He carried a
chest Of medicine in his lift hand. Coach
man Reed stood at the horses head when
/ the doctor sprang from the cutter.
| A momens after DR.. Wilder rang the bell
| the door was quickly opened and the big, mus
| cular man who had called at the drug store
| darted into the entrance He was bore
| headed and excited. From the curb Coach
man Reed saw the fellow thrust revolver
into the doctors face and fire.
| The doctor made some unintelliglbIe ex-
| clamation and staggered toward the steps.
! The barehel AIDED man followed him, firing
| first at his victims head and then at his
| breast. -Four shots were fired when the
doctor fell IN the hallway covered with
blood. One bullet had pierced his left eye
and entered the brain.
Another S ruck him at the base of the
spine, and left the body above the right hip.
Two other bullets lodged in a package OF
| letters, which was in an inside pocket of
the coat covering the heart.
When he saw his victim was dying the
big bareheaded man uttered a loud yell and
tore down the steps. His eyes were blazing
and he waved his revolver above his head.
Get out of the way or / will kill you,
too" he cried when Coachman Reed tried
to stop him.
Running into the street, the maniac
| spraDg into the cutter and dashed the horse
into galIOp. People began TO pour out of
the buildings adjoining and join in the
pursuit, but the wild mau i'll the cutter flew
over the snow on Calumet avenue and
quickly left his pursuers behind, without
stopping for obstacles or the cries Of team
sters.
The crazy man in the cutter swept around
corners and through the streets until he
reached the Twenty street police
station. Here he stopped his horse and ran
into the squad room.
VIC dOIio ~ az AdSb, u6 CTIbu 10 O0sk
Sergeant Carey, land this is what did it
with"
The mad man gave his revolver to the
policeman and sat down. While he was sit
ting In the chair a telephone message came
from the Cottage Grove avenue station to
look out for bareheaded man who was
alone in a cutter. The message continued:
THE fellow is John Redmond, the crazy
blacksmith, aud he has killed a man."
Redmond did not object to ha YlaPed in a
cell. He said he did not like iron bars for
breakfast, and then he began to sing. Half
an hour later he was taken to the Cottage
| Grove avenue station
| When Dr. Wilder fell In the hallway his
head struck an iron pillar. The cash in
| tlicted by this fall increased the hemorrhage
\ and covered his face with blood. The dying
mans brother, who IS also doctor, came
to the house just in time to drive away a
| morbid crowd which was swarming up the
steps. The doctor lived less than twenty
minutes after the mailman sprang over his
| body.
The murder was the elimination of a
| domestic tragedy which has no equal in the
! criminal history of Chicago. Four years
ago little Annie Redmond. the only daugh.
| ter Of the murderer, was stolen from the
street while at play. The abduction caused
an unusual sensation. The police and press
were appealed to, and each willingly lent
| assistance in the effort to recover the little
| girl. The grief-stricken father abandoned
| his work and looked necessarily for his
| daughter. So great became the strain upon
his mind that he lost his reason, and he was
| committed to the insane asylum at
Kankakee. But the search vas not ADAM
doned. Press aud people followed up the
search with renewed vigor. Subscription
lists were opened and citizens subscribed
| literally.
| fIaxr rys1i lixysy, - H.
neiGhborhood of the Redmond household
was visiting the Home for the Friendless at
| Twentieth street and Wabash she recognized
the pretty face of Annie, The good news
was impaired to the chid's mother and in
an incredibly short time the little one was
/ returned to her home. The efforts of the
police on the case were not fruitle,s Mr..
short distance from the Redmond
household, were arrested with one
Annie Allen, charged with abducting
the child. The trial which followed was
watched with intense interest by the publics
| Mrs. Gurley was identified as the woman
seen taking little Annie in her arms and
bearing her away. She was found guilty
and sentenced to five years in the peniteu-
tiary. The other woman was liberated, but
| it appears from subsequent developments
| that Mrs, Allen was the one who abduc ed
! the child at the suggestion of Mr.. Gurley.
The object of the kidnapping has never been
clearly shown.
| During the time that the child was missing
| before she entered the home she was kept a
! prisoner at the Gurley house. She was
taken TO the sisters home by neighbors of
the Gurleys, who entered the house and
| found Gurley maltreating the child. 1t was
not known to these neighbors that the little
| girl who was so brutelly beaten was the
! much sought after Annie Redmond. With
| his mind unbalanced by his trouble Red
mond grew homlcidaL He threatened to
| kill his wife, AMI even little Aunie, for
| whom he had lost every thing he possessed
| did not escape his blows. Finally the poor
| fellow was placed in an insane asylum.
! His condition began TO improve, and after
few months treatment he was released
| His wife, fearful of her life, sued for di-
vorce, however, and decree was granted
! to her.
This blow drove Redmond mad again, and
he has been moody ever since. DR.. Wilder
has been treating him. and it is supposed
that the maniac imagined that his friend
had also turned against him. Maddened by
| his vagaries, yet cunning in his plans for
Turing the doctor to death, he bought a re-
volver and quietly lay in wait for the time
when his victim should appear.
Dr. Wilder Was one Of the most successful
practitioners in the city. lie leaves a widow
and three children. Redmond lived where
he committed the murder, but his story that
a man was sick there was merely ruse to
bring the doctor to the muzzle Of his re-