Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-11-09
AN ARMY OF CRANKS

Kinds OF People, to be Enforced by All
Kinds of Methods-The Latest Develop
ments.
NEW YORK, Nov. Mongolia An
drew. the man who was arrested Mon
day for annoying Edwin Gould at his
Office in the Western Union building,
was arraigned before Justice Martin
in the Tombs court yesterday morn
ing. This will break my wife's
heart" he SAID, as he buried his face in
his hands.
"Then whit made you act So" in
quired the iIctice.
81 did not know I was doing any
thing wrong" was the answer. An
drews says he came to New York
week ago Friday.
Il am telegraph operator and came
from Kansas City to see if 1 could not
get better position than had there.
have a wife and two children.
81 called on Mr.. Gould because I
asked him to give me position, and
he said he would look the matter up.
So after waiting year l thought I
would ask him about it. l did not
think was doing wrong, as in the city
where 1 came from we are privileged
to talk business to all persons.
Justice Martin held Andrews as to
his sanity.
Another Metropolitan Crank.
NEW YORK, Nov. Another metro
politan crank was arrested early yes
terday morning at West and CORTLAND
streets. The man was caught en-
deavoring to convince an Italian fruit
seller that one of his apples was a part
of the moon. At the Church-street
police station the prisoner gave his
name as Henry Frank, but refused to
tell where he resided. Frank declared
that he had been selected to kill Mayor
Carter Harrison of Chicago, but hav-
ing sold his soul to Gen. Russell, of
New Haven, Conn, and acting under
the latter's orders he had stopped in
New York to kill the Cuban consul in
order that the island could be annexed
to the United States. He waited too
long and Prendergast was told to go
ahead. Frank said that he knew Har-
rison's slayer we'll and that Gen. Rus
sell was the ''head man of the society"
The prisoner was poorly dressed. JUS
tice Martin committed him for exam
ination as to his sanity.
A Crank With "Claims Upon President
Cleveland"
NEW YORK. Nov. 1.-The clerks in the
Offices of the charity commissioners,
Brooklyn. were very busy yesterday
morning when an old colOred woman,
Mary Tylman, entered with Jen-
ME Shaw, young colored woman.
Walking to the desk, the old woman
said to the younger: Tell the gentle
man what you want, Jennie"
WELL" said the younger one, who
Cleveland once rented house from
,ne, for which he never paid any rent
How can 1 compel him to pay me the
money? Mr.. Cleveland bought the
brown stone front house at 100 Jeffer-
son avenue and gave it to me some
time ago. He also gave me a great
deal of other property. Now he col
lects the rent from those places, yet he
does not turn it over to me-"
Clerk Short told her that President
Cleveland was making an inspection at
Flatbush, and advised her to meet him
there. She seemed satisfied and started
with her aged companion for Flatbush,
where she was placed in the insane
asylum for observation.
A Dangerous Lunatic at Large.
The two women had hardly left the
charity commissioners Office when a
woman. whose name could not be as
certained, approached the building
with a young man by her side. AS
they neared the door the young man
turned and ram away. The woman
rushed into the building and met OF.
6cer Morgan.
''My son who has just ran away
from me is a dangerous lunatic. He
thinks Gov. Flower has designs on his
life. He threatens to go to Albany and
HIM was bringing the boy |
here, but as soon as he saw the sign |
over the door he ran away. I'm afraid |
he may commit murder unless placed |
in some asylum.
Wants Five thousand Dollars from Sem
ator Hill.
Yesterday afternoon fashify- |
dressed woman, who gave her name as |
Augusta Fuller, pushed her way into |
the private Office of Justice Goetting, |
IN the Lee-avenue police. court. Brook !
lyn, and demanded to see Justice |
Goetting. Mrs Fuller owns the resi- |
dence in which she lives and is appar- |
emily independent. She images that |
Senator Hill owes her q, 1000 and is at |
tempting to defraud her out of it. |
Justice Goetting sent her word that he |
would see that she was not defrauded |
out of the money owed her by Senator |
Hill. She left apparently pacifed.
A Russian Crank.
Still another crank turned up last |
night. He entered an Office on Grand |
street and demanded passage ticket |
to Russia and 81 800 in money. He
m ust have both at once, or said he wonld |
make things lively. He remained in
the place for nearly quarter of
an hour and then went outside. |
In his hand he had brick |
done up in a newspaper. When he
reached the street, he looked up
and down hurriedly, unwrapped the
brick and hurled it through large |
window. He was arrested. |
The officer found upon him a dan
knife.
Crank in Reduced Circumstance.
New YORK, Nov. with long |
bladed knife and a keen-edged razor |
in his pocket, demented Swede |
walked into the East Thirty-Fifth |
street station and coolly told Sergt. |
Fang to hand over S., 900 right away, as
he was in reduced circumstances. The
visitor was promptly arrested and dis
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