Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-03-05
LIKE A WILD MAN
Dr. Scudder Either Insane or
 Shamming.
SAYS PEOPLE PURSUE HIM.
The Hospital Attendants Do Not Be-
 lieve He is Crazy.

In His Calm Moments He Declares He Committed No nIurder-The Rev. John l., scudder, of Jersey City, a Brother. Believes Harry is Insane-He Says His Father Wrote Him Two Weeks Ago That His Brothers Mind Was Affected.
 CHICAGO, March 5.-Dr. Henry M. Scudder is either insane or giving a clever imitation of insanity.
 The attendants at the detention hos pital take the latter view of it. When 8 reporter stood at the door of Dr. Scu6- ler's cell the man raved and spoke of people who were pursuing him, and sprang at the bars like wild man. In calmer moments he declared he had com mitteG no murder
 ''Nurder!' he screamed. "It's a damnable lie! know nothing about it. Oh, yes, believe that they did say something about it, but was too sick to pay any attention to it.'' ,S2y=ss
 When he became more rational he said: 'It is preposterons. Do you think 1 would kill an old woman who had only few months to live at best? Rot and nonsensep'
 Then the doctor grew wild. Making a spring at the grated door, he yelled
  sneaking around and peered through the window at me last night. He was tiend. All night long he peered and smirked at me. You are he, and have come to torment me. Go away!'
 All further efforts at conversation were fruitless. The attendant in charge of Dr. Scudder declares that the man is shamming and not doing it well, either
 The Rev. John l.. Scudder, brother of | 31l Narick Street, Jersey City. He had just received a despatch from another brother, the Rev. Doremus Scudder of Chicago which read
 We believe Harry insans. Put no cre- dence in press statements"
 "Of conrse my brother is insane," said MT. Scudder, that is, if he did this horrible thing at all. We know nothing definite about it except what the papers say, but cannot believe that any sane man would attempt to murder anyone with man in the next room and ser want expected any moment. Since my brothers return from India, eight years ago, he has been physical wreck, and he has always been inclined to brood over any thing that worrif1ed him. He has recently lost his place as medical ex- aminer for two insurance companies in Chicago, and my idea is that he worried about the financial loss until he con- ceived this plan, granting, of course that he did kill Mrs. Dunton. My father wrote me two weeks ago that Henry's mind seemed to be slightly affected. Some of the papers say there was bad feeling between MT. Dunton and my brother, This is false. They were the best of friends" "
 Mir. Scudder also said that there was insanity in the Scudder family, his uncle, Joseph Scudder, having died in- sane. An aunt of his father, he said, had also died insane.
 The Rev, Mir. Scudder, Henry M Scudder's father, was for nearly 12 years pastor of the Central Congrega- tional Church in Brooklyn. He left Brooklyn for Chicago in 1884 and has frequently visited Brooklyn.
 It is about year since he made his last appearance in his Brooklyn pulpit.
 The books of the Long Island College Hospital show that his son graduated in 1874, and it is supposed that he mar ried while still student at the hospital. None of the old professors or instructors of that period is now attached to that institution