The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-11-20

re Haunted tho Cathedral and struck the
Women worshippers There.

women Worshlppcrs mere
A slender. well-drcssed man with full
brown beard walked into the yestbule Of st.
Patricks Cathedral. at Fifth avenue and
Fifteth street just before O'Clock on Friday
Afternoon. At that hour on week days few
persons are In the church as rule. Joseph
RutledRe. a special oflicer on duty there. saw
the stranger come In. but paid little attention
to him. The man walked backward and for
ward across the wide space in the rear OF the
pews for some time muttcrinR to himself.
Finally woman came in and knelt down in
the centre aisle. Without warning the stranger
stepped up and struck her on the back OF the
neck. Ollcer ItutiedRe, who was still in the ves-
tlbule. did not see the occurrence. and as the
woman. though greatly alarmed. made no out
cry. the man walked out Of the church unmo-
Tested. Within a few minutes aiterward three
women worshippers came to Rutlodge and
told him that the departed stranger had struck
them with his flst. One Of the women showed
the bruise the blow had mado upon her neck.
The same bearded stranger walked into the
Cathedral again on Saturday afternoon when
two women were In the chapel waiting to go
to confession. lie approached them and
frightened them SO greatly that they hurried
into the vestibule. and told the special officer
the man. who protested incoherently against
being disturbed while at Worship.
The prisoner was turned over 70 policeman.
station. He was not long behind the bars
before IL became evident that the man was
and the soul of St. Patrick lie told Police
Captain Reilly that no was Joseph +. +. Gray.
a, shoe cutter. and that he work ed IN AdleE,s
shoe store at Third avenue and SiIty-fourth
street. He seemed mystiHed by his arrest,
Yesterday morning the prisoner was taken
None OF the woman who had com plain ed about
the mans conduct at the Cathedral Appeared.
omplaint OF disorderly conduct against him.
Justice Koch com tied him for five days. and
suggested that Warden Lynch OF the Y9rkyile
Justice Burke succeeded Justice Koch on
taken his seat when Gray was brought before
him He had been troublesome In the prison.
Gray made the sIgn Of the cross, and. declar;;
to being elected from tho cathedral
turned my pockets inside out" he ex-
planned. to show them that was not a crank
man in the garb OF priest put me out"
for examination as to his sanity.
rIght hss fhsr9h to pg' up sgns OF
They belong to liauor saloons"
Gray said that Saturday, was his birthday,
and that he went to the Cathedral TO commune
Believed that she had exefted her influence to
lie told Warden Lynch that he had wife and
five children In Brooklyn. and that he had
been in n lunatic asylum, not because he was
insane. but because his political enemies had
entered into u conspiracy against him. The
Warden finally got tired OF his troublesome
prisoner and called n ambulance. which took
Gray to Bellevue Hospital
Gray has been only a short time In the en-
ploy OF Mr.. Adler. He was hired as a shoe cut
ter. His vagaries attracted the attention OF
the other EN- ployees several days ago. and no.
body in the store was surprised when they
heard that he had been locked up n a crank.
Gray Is 43 years old. and was manager Of
shoe store in Brooklyn at one time
Gray lived with his wife ana children In a
tenement at the address given. He diaap-
peared from home on Saturday. He has been
In Flatbush Asylum twice. He was sent there
with acute re mania IN august hSSi, and dis-
choia was the diagnosis when he was sent
there In September. 1897 He was paroled on
Sept. 3 last, and discharged as cured on Oct 8