Semi=weekly graphic., 1896-01-11
MIR. WRIGHT, OF LITTLE ROCK, ESCAPES FROM
 His NURSE.
The Lunatic Gave His Pursuers q Run tor Their Money, First on Land and
 Then Icy Cold
 Water.

Dureya w. Wright, the son of a
 wealthy resident of Little Rock, Ark, came to New York seven weeks ago to be treated for mild form of mental alteration. The young man had been studying so hard that his mind became unbalanced, says the New York Sun, and when he came here he was placed under the care of an insanity specialist. Wright made his home in family hotel on Fifth avenue, and he soon became favorite of the other boarders. He never gave the slightest trouble, and the people of the hotel say that he was not only q rational conversa- tionalist, but very interesting talker.
 Tuesday morning the young man appeared to be unusually restless, and at the suggestion of his nurse, D. W. Gurtiss, they went out for q walk. Wright behaved well enough until the corner of Seventy and Third avenue WIS reached. Here he declared he would walk no further with CHrtiss, and he started at rapid pace east. As he is six feet tall and q trained athlete, ,Cnrtlss, who is rather small nan, did not attempt to restrain him. He ran one block north and asked policeman Edward Donohue to put his charge under arrest.
 He is crazy" he explained, "and l am afraid he is going to drown himself ?
 When Wright saw Dnnohue he made for the river with great speed The policeman called to him to stop, but the crazy man paid no attention to him.
 At the end of Seventy-second street there is a wall across the thoroIghfare, which Is five feet high From the top of it the shore of the river is fully twenty feet. Wright leaped to the top of the wall, and, after a moments pause. he jumped over, alighting on the shore, ap- parently unhurt. DonOhue looked over the wall and saw Wright sit ting on rock taking off his shoes. When Donohue jumped over the wall Wright sprang to his feet and, throwing off his coat, plunged into the river and swan with powerful strokes toward the Black wells Island shore He still wore the shoe on his left foot. Donohue plunged in after him, brt the tide was on the flood, and the crazy man was soon out of his reach. The policeman came back to the shore and blew his whistle for help.
 Meanwhile the shore of the river was lined by an excited crowd. which watched with eager interest the rapid swimming of the crazy man. Although the water was icy cold, and he was handicapped by the weight of his clothes, Wright swan easy, and he was soon 300 feet from the New York shore. When Don0- hue blew his whistle three men, who were board an ice barge, got out d small skiff and rowed toward the swimmer, whom the tide had car ried to a point nearly opposite them. They gained on him rapidly. When he looked back and saw that they were him, he redoubled his ef- forts. The boat continued to gain on him, and the oarsmen overlook the swimmer when he was about 150 feet from the Black wells Island shore So small was the boat that they were afraid to take Wright on board. Wright grasped the bow, and they pushed him toward the Black wells Island dock opposite Eigty-second street When he reached the lhnulnB ne felehseu HIS H0iu bH the boat and made his way quickly up the shaky steps. The chase in the water had attracted the atten- ton of the keepers and the atten- dants of the island, and as soon as Wright appeared on the dock he was seized by two guards. Although he had swam nearly half mile, the young man was by no means ex- hausted, but he did not offer any resistance. He was taken to the Metropolitan Hospital and put to bed. Later he was brought a
 prisoner to Belleyne Hospital.