The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-25
CRAZY MAN HELD THE FORT
FIRED ON 4 sToRArING PARTT FROM
THE POLICE COURT

Turned wire and gtepsous Out or the House
Before 1Breaknast-After varieus Dennon-
s~trations the Police sit Down TO n siege
and Expect to Get Hin eomsttme or Other.
Francis wild. who keeps o grocery in Steb-
bins avenue, noar 167th street, went crazy about
3 o'clock yesterday morning, drove his wife
out doors, and later defed the police to arrest
him. Up TO midnight his def was good, and he
was still locked up in his house. No Of.
fort, however, had been made TO get at him
since shortly after noon. Wild was a mechanic,
and for n long time worked on a newly invented
air motor. He has been subject, It Is said, to
fits of insanity. He and his wife and two of
her sons 1.-Two back OF tho grocery, which Is
somewhere in the neighborhood Of Long Island
Sound and as far uptown as you can got in q
long time. Mrs. Wild has noticed that another
"spell" was coming on her husband, and she
wasn't surprised when he ordered her out Of
bed at 3 o'clock yesterday morning and made
her 60 down stairs. She stayed there until
about @, and then she made coffee for break
fast. He came down at o o'clock, and grabbing
her by tho arm, forced her out OF tho house.
Then he shut and locked tho door. A few min
utes later he put her sons out and locked tho
door again.
Mrs. Wild appealed to a policeman. who ad-
yised her to go to court and get a warrant. She
tried to get back into the house first, and
through the glass door abe saw her husband
walking up and.down with o pistol. lie told
her to 60 away. She went to the Morrisania
simms her husband was a desperate man when
he was. In his tantrums, and that whoever
s'f Mssis she wp si%ms w FaRe l RRroS VARIANT be s To Court
Officers Gohl, Folk, and Vaughn, and they went
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and he had 2 revolver The oflcefs Knocked
they Ordered him TO- OPEN e the door on He said Ii
So they Withdrew for q consultation and took
the reporter with them.
They decided to attack the front and rear Of
Vaughn were to go to the. front. They were to
hammers. The first stroke Of the hammer in
the rear was answered, by, a shot which game
departed. U1 At tSS's Same 4 time e" Wild ~ Yelled at the
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Magistrate, unless you starve him out. He'll
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locked up in q grocery store. He wouldn't
So Gohi went back to the house and tried to
persuade, Wild to let them In again; but Wild
O'Clock Gohl returned again to the Magistrate
and:said that the placescould be broken into and
the man brought out. The Magistrate said he
didn't think that was necessary. He suggested
waiting until Wild fell asleep or something Of
that kind.
"f we force our. way IN" said Gohl, tho
chances arc we would have to shoot the fellow
before he would surrender"
You don't want to do that replied the
Magistrate. wait until you can get him with
out any shooting on either side.",
So no further effort was made to get hin.
Two policemen watched the house all night.
The neighbors said that If Wild was let alone
he would come out all right and nobody would
be hurt. They said that his crazy fits generally
lasted only a day or 80.