The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-15
MRS. EoRy is RECApTURED.
CAUGHT M THE PoLIosNdN VINO
ARRESTED HER OKIGINALLT


ne Eeceuutssa uurv % sIeesius nee IN tive
s~treei-she shot rtsr Two CHILL 'ren. killing
One, In asRs. ALL WIS Counrnittad u the
ngniteawau Asyium-E=eapNd Ersus q Keeper
Mrs. Fanny warinE Korn. the murderess. who
escaped from the custody Of n keeper Of tho
State Asylum for Insane Criminals at Mattea.
wan. on May 10. 1895. was arrested In this city
yesterday. by Policeman James McGrath Of the
Sanitary squad. Mcgrath was the policeman
who arrested Mrs. Korn In 1898, Just after she
bad poisoned and shot her two children. and put
q bullet In her own body. Although he never
saw her afterward until yesterday morning. he
recognized her at once. and, remembering that
she had oscaped after being committed to the
insane asylum. be placed her under arrest.
McGrath was attached to the West Sixty
eighth street station In 1898, when he arrested
Mrs. Korn. Yesterday morning while walking
through West Forty-seventh street, he passed a
woman whose face seemed familiar to him. He
retraced his steps. passed her. and then turned
around. The moment he looked at her this time
ho recognized her as Mrs. Korn, and II flashed
across him that she was a fugitive from Justice.
So walking UP TO her. he placed his hand on her
arm and said:
Don't yon remember me, Mrs. Kornf"
The woman turned pale at sight OF his uniform.
but said In q steady voice:
tuht % rO uy nHHlo.
"Oh. yes It 10" said McGrath. "I arrested you
years ago. but ! remember you perfectly. You
may as we'll admit your identity and come
with me-"
Tho woman broke down at this and, between
her sobs, berged the policeman 10 let her 60.
McGratb told her gently. but drmly. that II
would be Impossible to relense her. and then
took her to Police Headquarters. where she was
locked up.
Mrs. Korn. who was fairly we'll dressed. an
swered nationally the few questions Acting In.
spector O'Brien put to her. She didn't show
any sign OF b ing mentally unbalanced. and
while Il was believed ut the time she committed
her terrible crime that she was temporarily in
sane, the police think that she is now In her right
mind. After being In confinement for q few
hours. Mrs. Rorn admitted 10 u policeman that
she had been living In this city for some time.
She gave her address as 3ts West Forty seventh
street. but refused to say with whom sho was
living or by what name she was known there.
At 3IS West Forty-seventh street II was said
that Mira Korn had lived there with two other.
women for about o year. They occupied the
6rst dat on the vest side OF the building and
represented themselves as dressmakers. Sew.
eral weeks ago a furniture concern from which
the women had purchased furniture TO III up the
rooms cleaned out the place because the In.
oisllmenls had no! been p Id. The women then
ulON Nv INC ltdt dCEObS IL vi "uiSu 10
ssss was :, Known @aa q S'' Mrs., k s"!.S history sS"!;
BY q the She other n.vs ss0p' s.lk /" tn. sbo oSa''' herself rsiy
Tie police notiied the M.t.esw.n authorities
BACK 10 the asylum ni By the ns aHo al and an attoni.
Up to he time she committed her crime Mrs.
korn lived with her HUSBAND and two children
in a fat at lOl W. ct Sixty-eiKhth street. The
couple were apparently happy and livet we'll.
OF Benedict & 0irfney At 1871 Duane street. He
Was In re- ipt OF a good salary. and In addition
Widow Nu o. Within Warint. " + Hobokcn NJ" man,
when Korn met and married her; She had two
years, and Florence. 6 years OF age. and she was
very devoted to them:
announced one dav that life was not worth liv.
ing. and that she me mt to end hers before long.
As sh- WAS suffering then with nervous prostra-
On II ~; 1893. when Mrs. Korn sat down 10
two Glass-s. Of water: and, made the Children
bis mother insis,ei that Il was ony a me icine
for his blood. and he finally drunk il. The little
The woman sat Watching the Children Tor
several minutes. and then. making mp her mind
voiyer ana ared a shot at the boy, The bullet
bit him In the leg, and he ran out into he hall
After ATE a sSoo! the 't the be eSi'i Mrs. TX Ko Re'P picE R,feG lily
girl I'D In her arms and shot her in the let
breast She then shot herself in The sire. and,
sat IN a chair beside her. The ]snilor OF the
house had. meantime. summoned the po-
lice, and McGrath ran in and arrested
Mrs. korn. The woman and children were sent
70 Roosevelt Hospital, where i WAS nt first
but the woman and the hoy recovered. Mrs.
Korn was brought TO trial. and medical men
who examined her went on The stand and testi.
fed that she WAS undoubtedly ms ne. The jury
go decided. and on July q, 1893, the woman
WAS sent TO the asylum at Matteawan for an in.
definite periot.
Mrs. Rorn had been in the asylum on y a few
months when her relatives began making efforts
In getting a hearing before Supreme Court Jus.
ti.o Brown at Sewburg, md on May 10. 1898.
Mrs. Korn was sent over 10 SewhurR In charge
Of NJ ,tron Mary Osborn. The won IN was very
quiet and sci -possessei curing the. procee iings
In court. The testimony went against her an
she knew It. although the Judge reserved his
decision.
VIII n Mrs. Korn and the matron let the
courtroom they went straight TO the Post Office.
where the m iron wanted, 10 mail y letter. She
was reaching up TO a slit In the wall TO mail the
letter, when she happened 10 look around and
siw tn I. In the fraction OF n minute that her
eyes had born OF her prisoner. Mrs. Korn had
disappe rod. She ran to the door. but no trace
sent out at on o. hut the woman h d m dc use
Of tho few minutes lead she had. and no trace OF
her could he discovered.
For weeks New York and Newhurg detectives
could Re spared from the asylum WAS put on the
case. The search was finally given up, the au-
thoritirs coming to the conclusion that the
woman's frien s knew that she WAS going TO
assist her In case she was successful.
VAS IT SQUIRE Do BOTs'S GHOsTS