New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-12-19

THE ILLNESS OF MIR. LOW MAY CAUSE
MUCH TROUBLE.
OPINIONS OF THOSE INTERESTED IN THE CASE
THE REPORT OF THE PHYSICIANS
NOT YET MADE.

When II became known LAY in the corrldors
and through the halls of the Court or oyer anu
Teruiner that Alexander T. !.oX, one or the Jurors
on the Meyer murder case. had become suuuenN
insane. crowds gathered inside ana oh'siae INC
building When the ambulance from 'hdi"p'''
Street Hospital drew up outside OF the puidihs
the crowd grew and the excite meht nciciSr"'
The most absurd rumors began to circulate one
OF these was that the prisoner had atteHp'eu sur
eide: another that the Judge had sucdenlE peen
taken ILL., and still another that Mrs Meyer hau
swallowed some carbolic acid and was on the point
of death Tammany leaders and TamInan! hec'-
ers and Tammany henchmen who help TO ops'ruc'
the passaCeways In this public building six days
in the week playing politics at the expense vi 'ne
taxpayers stopped to what was the cause oi INC
commoton. 1t believed for tlme 'hat So'ic
Anarchist taking example from his companions III
Barcelona and Paris. had hurl I'd iomp aHloIs ''e
spectators and the wild and unearthly yeiis Oh i'o"
from his place in the clerks cha nDers' WHY" No''
be heard half block away. lent for pr'ei season
some color TO the suspicion. , T., ohou,
eighteen years old. by his fathers sde VIII
o one dpncS9mpanyng him to Bellevue Hospital in the
ambulance He vas anxious 10 haSr n directly
from the court. but was pointed out Dy ae ,,
in charge of the ambulance that IL was ambuiance
unless to an hospital reasonable radius only being
the circuit within which This snd ny
ney insisted that the hospital was the proper Piao
for The r ars a! F. hai aPSponad and
Dana the physicians appoin.en r oS UPON
t condition and the nature OF the illness by which
ne had been attacked Dr. ss donr ali he could
to relieve the stricken nryman asrerd 20 ami ,S
rangemen Meanwhe Low S waS way and utering
hroken and disconnected sentences IN a s,r al. ,
up from 1or Ise wbo had LETT the when the court
was adj9urneqh n quiet At last he secured in
the ambulance and whirled away, sau mr. Doug
ia' one III Of the physicians in the hospital ana
inquired what had been done In regard 10 ''e SUN
'u "Tou must not ask me anything about 'na''
say What report have the doctors made upon his
co a%or about that" he answered
well is ne insane?"
nov. '@ Continued the reporter desperately rs
Juror low Is here said AID the c GGSS sav anu
Have Or. Macdonald and Dr. Dana examines
MN Dr Macdonald has been here and examned the the
admission Low y, has IS G nsWf r@S Veen, t''1 ~
and will be all right soon AusseS''' ''' "
pIp5! pr Douglas winkel knowingly. smiled and was
sine. The next place where information wa, 'ouEEHt
l me a, Nj lows home /, is cosy frame build.
ne Bordering on the Riverside Drive 1hr ia .nns
fs Se was Frustrated by the news and refused
to see any stranger but Arcnipani; VI, ,n affirm or
denv ;he report that It was losses IN cohnIc' Ion
with the bg Boeksway heafh , hSe BROUGHT on his
illness nine years but he ana not INN IN
ne ne, Wa From other sources 1t was !rarhei
that Mr. Low was confined III una s,s,inr that he
| FAR back as 1865. his commimen' s'A'''s ''''
was suffering from hallucinatlon. ,o,o. ., the
us IL fact that YOU were IN Yneniine some
court ever aay ' the reporter asked
| Il was present most ~ o t' u,iikely nv father
'Isi ancv Xicol when at his home vas nr r
PIT o9t over d rxpense Of the trial had all gone for
n"tbng' and that 1t certainly looked AS '"ous" NV
man an was b,c cas there will have be new trial"
sugEeaie 10 about the sum and substance Of IT, w''
MI aeo vow received the report Of the medca
eN T have not and do not expect 1t Will De SUI
mitted qn' IN, ya noring over Some books in th'
library his apartments In the lie said tina
ne hsd not and that it would not be made kn sss
mn ,b to- nishap should have occurred just at tn
cInse Of long and aruous trial, ,, M, ,nsane
.'If IT be found that he WAS ''' "''
I'VE can keep the matter in sbeyance UNI, ,h me- ri
coVsts h S hanpened When 1t came TO my Know!
edge after he had been sworn as innt Mr Low ha,
the nsane talked with him for more than III %
minutes. and he denied that such had ever pee" u"
the experts him H W. at ,Renc VIII
have 10 be- a new trial 1t will be dhcut IN" To- h
i" secure another jury for neaiy eVe'y yo Ui dis
ro6 The details cf the trial, ana tiat wo"'o '''
uuaIify them from serving. ,,1,,,ro llko Mr.
P"%ssis,ant District Attorney Mcintyre I'M ~. ~
| Eicnm s,ened sorry at the turn OF ai,ars. ,, he
much time and labor and non y Was ,no had e. ="
If it is some illness other than N, r~rer unt
reporter said. ana ' ha ~ ine "' "''
"'.I suppos." Mr.. Mcntyre answelrn' ur r"a Sico,
,,ca ming District Attorney wo ia lIoH io
NV sum M as though ch ilg, OF administrative
had oCcurre s II Macdonald when seen at the Hote
Cambridge late in the ey.nng said ld th his ne rep"Tl
examined Low. but had not so iar nnre mil, MI dg
| Jarrett had possession or H.