New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-04-12
" FRED" NAY IN TOWN AGAIN.
READY ID STAND TRIAL FOR HIS ASSAULT.

he SURRTNTEHS TO TIE DISTRICT ATTORNEY
THE CRIME FOR WHICH HE WAS INDICTED.
Fred May, for years OF the best known mon
abouttown in the city, surrendered himself at the
District Attorneys Office at 30 o'clock yesterday.
stand trial charge attempted assault In the first
degree. on June Il, Iss6, he tried TO shoot Police
man Daniel MCGOWAN and was arrested after being
badly dubbed. lie was released in 81 900 bail and
left the country. lie returned to this city a few
days ago and yesterday gave himself up. His bond
Lad been forfeited and paid to the county.
MAY called John K. Dos Passos In the Mills
building yesterday morning and engaged him rs his
Coun-c.. One of the lawyers clerks accompanied him
and Clarence Gray Dinsmorc. hi, bondSman. 10 the
General Sessions Building. May surrendered himself
TO Henry W. rngrr the bail clcrk. Vernon NJ. Davis.
who Acting Distrct-Attorney. Mr.. Nlcol being
engaged in the buchanan trial. consulted with his chief
and then fixed bail at 5000
Mr.. Dn,norc complained OF this amount cxces
sve. but signed the bond. lie said he had life In
crest in onrlalf OF No. 3O2 Fifth ave. the prop
perry being worth 800, 900. lie lives Mt the Hotel
Brunswick and is not In business. Before Judge
Marine May pleaded guilty to the charge. lie
was thccupon released. 10 a reporter he said that
on leaving New York he first went 10 England and
thence Bucno, Ayrr,. lie remained there for two
years and then went TO Valparaiso. where hr was
agent for Praus Astral oil. liz would not say where
he was saving in this city.
6 D. IN lie had gone to the Fall River Line pier to
see hi, mo her and lister off for Newport, lie drank
M several barroom, and got rather drunk. At War
ren-,t and College lace he began 10 address Young
women who were going home from work. citizen
summoned Policeman Daniel Mctiovan. Of the
Leonard,t. station. but when he came up May was
ORDERLY The officer. therefore. merely advised him TO
tao n cab and go home.
Half an hour later MAY up 10 tho policeman
4 nid. o. Van no
corner At the same time he drew his revolver and
uonted il Ut Mct;owan. TIL" policeman instantly
struck him on the neck with hs night stick ana
second time the eye Then II wa easy I" arrest
Nav The next day hc was Acld in $1,000 ball IN the
I Tomb, Police Court. Lewis Howard Livingston Of
IN !, East seventeenth st. who died recently. becam"
his bond man.
MAY VA. confined 10 the NewYorS Hotel for som"
Tim, hv Iii, INJURIES a. there wa cu,>ion OF
| the brain lie was not indicted until September
ON September ~ his bail forfeited rs h" had ais
appeared. 49,
Mr. Nicoll said Yesterday That h" would place M,
IN trial a, soon as tho Buchanan ease was nni'h'u'
II seem, likely that h. will hc Convicted n M'"""
Is alive and In this city, lie Is SIN p'n'"""'
attached 10 the Leonard i. station. To 'rp'''
r. porter who saw him AT his home. NO l'' "'''
Thirty -fi,t-.t Yesterday. hr Sad tha' ~ WIS '''
10 t:s,lfy 70 the assault nj any tine i' ''' W.
gotten some = the details OF the at"ir nat wa ""'
/ 10 ref
nade entries Al the time Of IA" arrest. MAY never
denied thu, he drew lis revolver on IN" p'Hc"""h'
but merely said thai he drunk ~ IN" uhc III"
I had no recollection ~ what he did
NAV II now f.rtyon years old ana MS 'a'' j.
s.cply bronyed His looks have changed little IN
his absence lie known a. on" OF IN" hahd'omcH'
mon In IN. CITY, and besides Of magnlhcen,
strength and tuili. IIc probably IN" most s@''
! f,l ,ra,cur boNer in the country His father wa
ntv.,clsu and LIS family Of high social s'andihg
! The Mays Of Baltimore and Washington are MS
relatives.
Nav was we'll dspoitloned except when IN MS cups
Then be- SOMETIMES got quarrcl~oin" Ills nu'' WIN
Jane, cord ~ Bennett wa perhaps his most a'Nu"'
adventure. MIR Bennett had been engaged 10 NARY
| hi. .ifcr WHO 4. now Mrs Arthur Eandplph' ~"
/ match wa, broken OH. however. ANA on" wlh"r
afternoon the tV, vounS men. who hiu pr'l san i
friends had an cEcOIni"r IN front {" ne mon .l.u
/ lu,l Wa ID" outcome. II wa~ iouEht IN p"H'"'l'
/ shots being exchanged with AT "lhcr man "''h
| I.r Charles Phelps ompani"d IN" party as sur
coon When the affair became publfly ko"h' W
| pl.lp. va, summoned h"for" III" 'rand jury l" ",'
/ nv .l0u, IT, lie refused io say worn aoont '''
r,,l 81, ,,. rround that to q would tend 10 Dc
grade and to irorImnatc him The iri'niy o. III
/ acricn va- fought I'm the courts. bat Z" WIS hhdlN
/ upheld IN his refusal. ~, ~,
- ~ on, illnr MAY and +. " Dic'crson. son OF thc
! famous pncnt lawyer. were matched I" bon io'
| - 900 a side. \ handsome forfeit was p"'i"n bN
/ ,,ch man. 10th went into training but Nr. pfk'r-
.,r q, Ia d,cdoI not To- h-ht. and lost his forfeit
/ Frank Ellison who T. also "A capital boxer nan III
! .ucoun'er With Nav once. but wa knoch"d uoWl,
tire. times In qrlrk succession. Then h" d'cm'i
| HAT hi, opponent. the better man