The evening world., 1894-05-30
IS HOWARD CRAZY ?
Supposed Boston Physician Alarms
a Swell Boarding House.
First He Wanted Coffee, Pen and
Ink Then a Stretcher.
Removed In an Ambulance to Belle
u Hospital.

A supposed lunatic created a great
deal Of excitement very early this MORN
ing in the swell clearinghouse at IS
West Eighteenth street. The boarders
were reused from their slumbers by a
series OF e%ar-piercing shrieks, and the
neighborhood was disturbed by the
clatter of an ambulance called to take
the lunatic away.
Neighbnrs were II the impression that
a murder had been or was about being
committed In the house. and this impress
sion was strengthened when the lunatic
was carried out by a policeman and the
ambulance surgeon.
The lunatic hud given his name as
"Dr Howard" when he engaged board
last evening of Mrs. Heink, the landlady.
He called upon her at 100 o'clock and en-
EaEed q seeond-st9ry front room for an
ly at the time, Mns. Heink now says. but
she then only thought him n bit eccen-
tric. He seemed easy 70 please, and made
q hit with the servants.
AT $50 o'clock by. Howard suddenly
appeared before Mrs. Heink. and with
great gravity of manner assured her
that, although he was going out he
not be necessary for her to sit up for
him. Mrs. Heink. after puzzling over
this for. an hour. concluded that II was
Intended as a bit OF pleasantly and went
to bed.
Dr.. Howard was escorted as far as
the door on his return by a friend, who
disappeared without giving his name.
heard from again until ! o'clock this
morning. At that hour all the servant
In the house were scared out of bed by
a violent ringing OF the electric call bell
IN of the bravest of the lot ventured
to knock on the door OF Towards room
and inquire what was wanted.
at the ervan for a moment, and then,
In a theatric name demanded that
she instantly produce a u of coffee. a
Ing through the hall he called out to her
that he would take a cake Of soap with
the coffee.
Then Howard shut and locked the door
caper about the room, knocking over
chairs and COMFORTING himself gen.
orally IN an Insane
throu rda'e tse T kesho maa that upon he 1 remaIn
quiet, and Immediately thereafter he
threw up the front window n began
singing to the neighborhood.
element among the other boarders. Some
of them hurriedly dressed and went out
In search OF a policeman.
tion he entered the house and demanded
admittance to Towards room. As soon
as the stranger heard the p~oliceman's
voice he quieted d5wn. IND this fact Is
responsible for a suspicion among Mrs.
Heink's boarders that the man Is not
so crazy as he seemed to be.
He refused to let the policeman in.
however, and the officer then broke
open the door.
Howard greeted the officer with a
smile, and Inquired II he had brought a
stretcher with him. "I'm too tired to
walk" he said.
The policeman had one OF the boarders
summon an ambulance from Bellevue
Hospital. and when this arrived the
policeman n the surgeon carried How
ard downstairs and the ambulance took
him away.
The policeman was kept busy for an
hour answering questions fired at him
from windows Of houses all along the
block and assuring the questioners that
1t wasn't a murder but 'only a crazy
chump."
While being taken to the hospital
Howard kept the ambulance surgeon
busy. He insisted on being allowed to
Upon reaching the hospital he quieted
conveyed to a cell. He refused to give
the names of any of his family or
friends.
In his pockets, however, were found a
number Of envelopes inscribed "Dr.
Howard Boston" He is about fifty
years old n rather good looking. He
will be examined by the hospital physi-
clans Tomorrow morning.