New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-11-02
THE HOST OF CRANKS.
EIGHT OF THEM SAFE FRcM bllSChlEH
AT BELLEVUE.
MOST or THEM Are HARMLESS COMPLAINTS AT
POLICE COURTS BRING OFT FEW Mo"h
ONE NEW ONE SAYS he CAN'T
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ONE NEW ONE SAYS He CAN'T
Pc DLUFrED.
DR.. Douglas, who has charge OF the insane pa
v'.on at Bellevue Hospital: Or. Fabricus' rs a."
sistant, and Dr. Milan Fitch. the ComH!Ss'O"'' ~
Lunaoy, are just reapinS the I"' =,
cranks. which is at IFS fullest ripeness. III '''e
wards at bellevue Hospital there are eis"' pa
TENTS. Only six Of these. however. might prop
cry belong TO the class in whom Hohoi'd"'
likely to assume the form Of homicidai mama ~
others are simple. everyday cases oil hahuc''"'''
such under ordinary conditions would pass Ell
urely without notice But as DR.. Allan fl'ch YES
terlay remarked with his accustomed terseness
and force. the assassination Of Mayor Garter har-
rlson has produced acute fear among '"e peo
pie who hitherto have been content II treat '''o
crank with grievance a. an incident OF eNe'S
day life. The business or the professional
man who for years has smilnely tolerated 'he
periodical vistations OF his own licensed Gran"
now realizes that the harmless maunderer may az
time. develop into a cold-blooded murderer anu
adopts measures OF protection accordingly
Martha Katharine Haas the woman yesterday
committed TO Bellevue Hospital from the TonDs
Police Court, had annoyed Or John $. Rodway Tor
three years and might have continued her eN-
poits for three years more had not her victim
wisely concluded take warning The same rue
applies to Mary Mcclure. the old woman who be
lieves that Father O'Farrel of st. Teresa's Roman
Catholic Church, is trying TO deprive her OF large
of money and who. for six months has mace
life something Of a burden to him.
Among the others confined in the hospital are
Magnoer Andrews, thirty-four years OLD. Of No.
37S Pearl-st who made the startling request from
Edwin Could John Breitholz, who demanded
small fortune from police sergeant in the East
Thirty-fifth-st. station; Henry Frank who says
that he delegated to Kill Mayor HARRISON
Thomas Reilly who thinks that Superintendent
D.. Rrad
tried to kill Frederick Lewis Mathes and held six
policemen at bay with a revolver.
HE WAITS MIR CLEVELAND At THE WEDDING
The latest addition to the distinguished com
pany is George Edward Scott. forty-six years old.
4 bookkeoper who had been sent to BELLEVUE
Hospital by Or. ~ ". Wallace. OF No. SA West
Forty -eighth-st. Scott entered the hospital yester
day afternoon in company with "A friend hamed
Dick To a Tribune reporter he said that he in
tended to marry a Miss Coole who lived with
Mrs Damrosch The wedding was fixed for
Wednesday. and President Cleveland and william
X Vanderbilt hal promised 90 be present. scout
appears TO be harmless, but II was deemed heots-
sary to put him under restraint;
No representative OF the species called at Police
Headquarters yesterday but the Commissioners.
the Superintendent and the inspectors are cx-
pectIng callers. \ hungry-looking man walked into
the office Of Jacob Berilnger. lawyer. AT 40 -
Cbambers-st. yesterday afternoon. and demanded
81 90 which he declared. had been placed In Mr.
Berlingers custody by an uncle in Germany. MI
Berlinger invited the visitor 10 take "A seat
THAT blun's played out" remarked the appli-
can't Il want the money. and l want 1t quick
see"
Mr. Berlinccr called to ono OF his clerks ana
asked him 10 take the man 10 the bank ana ara"
the money A. the clerk began TO mount inc
steps Of the dirgy building. the crank mut'er'l
something about that being no bank ana pat
OF his speed.
DIR. RAILWAYS ToEMNTOa.
The woman calling herself Martha KatheTina
Haas and claiming to BE- the VIE u DR. John :.
Railway. Of 40. Isl West Seveaiy- second-st' wa
before Justice Martin Of the Tombs Police court
Yesterday She was arrested Tuesday hBht At nj
home 80. 255 West Fifty-fourth-St. al inc III
stance pr Roadway. who seys sne n Han, ' him
mani letters during that time. hrst calling herself
ms 9g5o'ns s,e @ that sh took the ground that he
had been married 10 Dr Railway. and mat ne
US a,naIlug 10 the doctor. who already had
wife and several children Inc it't'is WI .d .
sent by a Observation-Disclosures man who claimed 10
The woman seemed rather dazcd in court yester-
DAY she is short and slim. with pnchel features.
To- Justice Martin she told rambling story about
being married ana nay ns srVII n5 ,a her sanity
sic accompanied 10y thr man who stii H..
iIaas Il have been working for the American
manufacturing Company. making umbrella rib5
nv sister did too" The man seemed Of weak mind
The afterward sd that she Was rela,ci TO
ny welding" she said, vita touch OF pride Hn'
they treated m nagy, j haYs propcry , brn y
willed 10 me. II | could only get my rights.
land"
HE WAS GOiSG TO CIT HER HEART OUT.
Mamie Gilbert. pretty blonde OF twenty years.
living In the boarding house AZ No. u Thlrd-sl.
came TO the Essex Market Police Court yest"r-
dav. and asked Justice Noo:hls to protect her
from a crank She said that she was serio-comic
singer and that she was engaged this week at til"
Atlantic Garden. The crank stopped her last night
in the hallway Of the boarding house where she
lives and threatened TO cut her heart out with
pair OF shears. She screamed. she said. and the
man dropped the shears. Later she discovered
, ,h. ,h man who made the attack on her lived
in The same boarding house.
II don't know what he wants" she said. Tin
sure that | gave him no for wanting to take
nv life. never spoke to the man.
Justice NOorhis told the woman 10 report the
shortly after O'Clock Tuesday night wlld-eycd
man entered Louis scharchs tIcket-o''ice at no.
sa tir1nd-st corner Of suffolk. and demanded $50
IN cash He also demanded passage ticket 10
i,ussia In one hand he held penknfe and In
the other n bundle wrapped In a newspaper. ON
hsine refused what he demanded he became greatly
"nTa,ed Going into the street he unwrapped the
Ggnasb W4 pae sis %ndSw worth s. WHEN ar
rested ne described himself as Moses Schawich.
russia He became violent in the cell at the De
I,ncey-st police station. ana scratched and Kicked
I~.n the plastering. lie also flooded the cell by
tnrning on the water Mr.. Scharlich said that the
pnle vas at his place week ago. and when he
refnsed TO give him 5000 Schawich broke plate
,i,ss window and escaped arrest. Justice NOorhis
S,nmitted him 10 the WOrkhouse for five months
iohn O'Donncl. Of oyster Bay j.. J., who on
Tuesday n2ht waved a revolver about his head
he vas crossing Harlem Bridge and shouted: I'm
"oinr 10 XIII tie captain" fined s. at
h. Harlem Police Court yesterday for being drunk
at IS CRANES DAY
.ueustus Volz. scenic artist nj Proctor's
Theatre yesterday morning received postal card
as follows
November |. 1898
ur Vol no hiding. l starving and want 10
.,oy whether you wont Jay M the money you
long or not II you want o. lAy ne. send ! don't
can, 10 BE- fooled any longer. Remember crank
c,v have been III Chicago. Give You until Saturday
or Join my
At this point the writing ended and below the
ort "rny" was n rudely drawn skull and cross
honcq The card also bore the initials "G. r." and
r. address mo. 28 Avenue r."
,yife persuaded him to put the matter In