The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-04-11
lie SHOT AT THE DOCTORS.
THEY SHOULDN'T TAKE Hrs BOY TO
TIE PLAGUE HOUSE.
II Took the Sight OF u Section of Poiicemen
TO Subdue George Humphrey-His Chiid
Removed TO the Smallpox Hospital.


Removed 10 the smallpox Hospital.
Two cases Of smallpox in the four-stor,
tenement . sackott street, Brooklyn. wero re-
ported to tho Health Department Saturday BY
DR.. j. II. Reid. and that night the patients
were removed to tho hospital for contagious
Diseases in Flatbush. About thirty persons
live in the house. All but one fam.
lily are Italians. Roth cases we're chill
| dren. They wero Maria Vnssari. six months
old and Octavio Riccio. 2is years old. The
mother of the first child and the grandmother
OF the second wont to the hospital with them.
The health officials uuarnntincd tho house.
Yesterday Drs. King. Purdy. and Brandt vac
ciratcd every ono in the house. They also fu-
migated the rooms OF tho parents OF tho sick
children.
When the health inspectors visited the
house Saturday they found the three. year old
son of George Humphrey. dock builder.
sick. Humphreys lives on tho second floor.
Tho inspectors were undecided whether the
child had smallpox and they determined to
wait for his sickness to develop. Yesterday
afternoon Drs. Bullwinkel and Moore decided
that tho child had smallpox. They told tho
father that 1t was necessary to remove the boy
to Flntbush.
You'll do nothing Of tho kind" Humphrey
cried. My boy hasn't got smallpox. and 1
wont let any one take him to plague house.
i,X o got money enough to pay doctors to look
Tho doctors said it wa. absolptely, necessary
to take tho boy away They ordered their as
iiumphreyagain declared he wouldn'tallow tho
boy.t go. Policemen Kelly and Mulligan of tho
prevent people from leaving or going into it.
brs. Bullwinkel and Moore sent for them. They
they got ready t" remove f the i,u chId HUM
phrcy. tho doctors. and tile POLICEMEN stood in
take hold Of him no darted into his rooms and
slam mn, the door
"I!l not let thSm do i. b God. iii ile nrst"
child was TO- DO removed was at tho door THO
room. Just as they had crossed the threshold
white With rage In his right hand he held
Get out OF here" he cried. pointing tho re-
I'VE must take the boy" DR.. Moore said.
Good care will he taken of him. You may go
with him If you like"
No you can't take him." said Humphrey;
q Before they could get on. the door Humphrey
the door. butt, they We're we'll out when
in tfa Wa fis eSeq ther heads nho
Humphrey followed them but when tho doc
tors told him TINT they would not take tho
child he did not fire II third shot. Tho doctors
told him that in order to calm him: Then
Humphrey went into his rooms and shut the
door.
The doGt sast and the policemen left tho
Richards street station, house. The Car:
tain despatched Roundsman. Eason and
the retniorcements the doctors made for
Humphrey rooms again. They, forced
against him he. broke down. and offered 20
further resistance. The policemen took him
to the Richards street station: where the re-
loaded revolver was found in his pocket. He
went In the station house.
I'm afraid my boy will die IL he goes to the
plague house." he moaned. Hes q bright
little fellow. and l don't want to lose him. I'm
sure he'll get we'll II they let me take care OF
him.
Humphrey was locked up. After his arrest
the child WIS TIL on TO ElutLu