The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-23
HAD TO ARREST HIM,
Bellevue officials Otherwise
Wouldn't Take in John Fry.
Was Crazy from Drink, "But II
Wasn't a Hospital Case =.
On tho Second Trip Policeman Nor
ris Takes Decided Action.

The unusual action of the authorities
of Bellevue Hospital In refusing 10 re-
ceive an intoxicated man who threatened
to do harm to himself and others caused
great excitement last night in the vicin-
ity OF Fourteenth street and First ave
nue. and gave Policeman Morris no end
of troubl-.
At 10 o'clock woman ran out of the
house at 5l2 East Fourteenth street and.
meeting Policeman Morris, asked him 10
take charge of her husband She told in
an excited way that she believed the man
was crazy-she was sure he was drunk.
Accompanying the woman to the third
floor OF the house. the policeman found
John Fry, thirty-four years old, a cattle
ship man, being held down on the floor
by two men. AS he was held there,
struggling. Fry cried aloud that he must
get up and follow the ice-wagon full of
beef" The two men said they were
friends of the man; that he was frantic
and they feared to release him.
Morris tried to quiet Fry, but was I'M
able to do So Mrs. Fry and her two
children were badly frightened, and i'm
plored the policeman to take the man
away. Finally Morris decided to call
an ambulance from Bellevue Hospital.
Until the conveyance came Fry kept
UP a continual and bowling demand for
the ice wagon and the beef. The police.
man couldn't decide whether or not the
| man was crazy, and as there was nc
cause to do SO did not make him a pris-
oner. All the way to the hospital Fry
keep him from throwing himself from
the ambulance.
Policeman Morris patrolled his post
towards the Fifth street station-house
| where he reported the case.
| At 11.3O o'clock the policeman was
again near Fourteenth street and First
avenue, when he saw a big crowd in
what caused the gathering he asked OF
a man What's the natter" and re-
ceived this answer:
oh, nothing; only man who wants
What: another" cried Morris. Their
he ran forward and found Fry in his
night clothes, dancing on the pavement
much to the amusement of the crowd
and all the time crying for the ice
wagon.
The policeman didn't understand the
matter at all; Then Mrs. Fry came anC
| told that an hour after her husband haC
been taken to the hospital in his fran
| tic state he had returned, more violent
than ever. He had scarcely been in tn,
house ten minutes. when he made al
| story window.
With strength born of desperation, sh,
had held him when he climbed onto tn,
window sill. Then he had run out int
the street.
Believing that the man had escaped
from Bellevue. the policeman called al
ambulance for the second time.
The ambulance surgeon came again ant
brought the explanation Of the mans re
turn. The hospital mad refused to re
ceive Fry because he was not a prisoner
But said the policeman, "the maj
Is frantic. don't know what is tn
matter with him."
We'll. arrest him and I'll take hin
away" said the surgeon.
But l have nothing to arrest hin
for" argued Morris. "His wife want
him taken to the hospital for treatment
You'll have to arrest him then"
So Norris arrested the man. and he wa
taken once again to the hospital Thu
time they We're compelled to receive him
1t was said there that the man was onl,
drunk and that he had Deen placed in tn,
alcoholic ward.