New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-29
SUNDAY EDITION.
MAY 20, 1892.
THE SLAYER DISCOVERED.
SJRRENDERS HIMSELF TO JUSTICE.
,rr KILLS WAITER BY THRUSTING AN UNI
BRELLA INTO his EYE.

,,r KILLS WAITER BY .THRUsTING AN I'M
BRELLA INTO his EYE.
william Hobbs thirty years old. a waiter, of No 2O5
East Thirty -third-st fatally injured July 8
last man who then unknown jabbing an UNI
brela into his left eye Months passed and the police
we're utterly unable to learn who gave the deadly
thrust. II has Just become known, however that
Andrew Williams. Pierre Lorard's butler. was the
SLAYER of Hobbs. Mr. LorlaN told District Attorney
De Lancey Nicoll the facts, and had his employe
render himself Williams TO have been blame
less in the affair. and Recorder 5myth admitted him TO
5000 bail. Mr.. Lorillard at furnished this.
on the evening of July s Hobbs, Joseph Doyle of
No 900 East Forty -secOnd-st., and Williams, whose
name Doyle did not know then, in the bar
,oom Of Brandes Brothers, at Thirty -second-st
and Fourth-ave. Hobbs had been drinking,
out Williams, as lie says, was not at all
under the influence OF liquor. These two got into
an argument about the merits OF certain jockeys, and
finally went out the sidewalk Doyle going with
them. Williams says that the discussion not
bitter at all. but Doyle. IN affidavit made before
Coroner Levy, declared that the men came to blows
At any rate policeman came up and the dlsputants
separated.
Williams went out into Thirty -second-St lie had
not gone far before he heard rushing toward
him. lie turned and Hobbs Running at him.
williams held out his umbrella and the other ran into
IT, Hobbs fell 10 the sidewalk and Williams believing
that his friend had merely taken drunken tumble,
went home. The policeman nearby ali the time.
An ambulance summoned and Hobbs taken
10 81. Niucent's Hospital. lie died there two
days late. without recovering Consciousness Doyle
old not know WilliamsS name and his identity re-
NAMED concealed.
The next morning Williams. ; he went 10 the
Pl.k Avenue Hotel, where Hobbs was known, and
asked how he The butler told that Hobbs
Was seriously hurt. His as9aant became frightened
ana said nothing of what lie had done. lie went 10
savannah Ga, where Mr. Lorllard took him into his
employ On his yacht. Williams went TO Florida and
then to the Mediterranean Sea the boat. Re
Gently he confdcd to his employer that he had ca'sed
Hobbs's death Mr.. Lorilard, 4 few days ago, called
on Mr. Nicoll and told him the whole story. The
employer said that his butler a mild-manneTed
person, who never drank 20 excess and he wdS con
fdent that Hobbs entirely 10 blame for his death
Williams came before the Dstrict-Attorney yes
terday and told his story lie Is an Engishnli
twenty five years old, and his way of DESCRIBING the
homicide greatly impressed Mr.. NicOll In his favor
lie sent his secretary, Henry ". unger. before Re
cOrder Smyth with Williams. The butter repeated ms
story and the Recorder decided 10 admit him 10 ban
In S. 900. on the papers the Judge wrote pom
Inc Information conveyed g ne 10y the DlstrctAt
torney, / am convinced that the defendant cannot be
convicted OF any higher degree OF homicide than man
slaughtcr-f he can be convicted of offence. which
seems e. 10 be doubtful
Mr.. Lorillard at once signed the bail bond naming
as security his house, No. $50 filth-ave lie retains
Williams in his employ and sent him to Tuxedo III the
afternoon