Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-11-29
HE WANTED A MILLION
Ne" iorks Comptroller Has a Crank
Arrested For Making Threats,
PRISONER JUDGED INSANE
brooklyn Yoong Mnn mn,
nor some Time Been Maxi
ing Demands ON the
COmptrOI!cr,

| - Ne" 1orK. Nov. 29-Comptroller Div,
| y. ooler' tearing bodily harm recently
eauseo the arrest of a young man for
writing him threatening letters Al.
~oush the arrest was made Soma
ea's ago the fact had been kent a
~, secret. 1t has just come out
.ne young mans mother entered the
ADAMS Street police court. Broolslvn
weeping, and asked Magistrate Rren.
ner what disposition had been made oe
her sons case. She was told ha bad
been adjudged insane.
The prisoner is Henry Robor+ c,,,,;
yer, z" years old, who lives with his
ihother at 466 Atlantic avenue. It an
pears that prior to his arrest he wrote
d number of letters to Comptroller Co..
YER which caused the latter to fear that
| tne man would cafl upon him and do
| nlm some injury. It. was thought that
IT might possibly result in a case SINH
| lar 10 that OF Norcross, who walked in.
10 Russell Sage's Office and after max.
ing a peremptory demand for 81 O0O 000
cropped a bag Of dynamite. While the
matter made Mr.. Coler very apprehen-
slve and not little uneasy, he did moth
ing about 1t until he received this note.
40 the Comptroller:
Il want 41,0OO0O0 one million dol
| lars; send ME promptly. Believe ne. |
| am
HENRY ROBERT GULLIVER."
When the comptroller received this
ne concluded that 1t was time to take
immediate action, and he at once con-
ferred with Bernard j. York of the po-
| lice board, with the view of having the
man arrested. AS soon as all the facts
IN the case were placed in Mr.. York S
hands he Immediately went to Brook
lyn and conferred with Deputy Chief
Mackellar at police headquarters, and
1T was decided that the man should be
promptly taken into custody, providing
he could be found.
ArreSted by Strategy.
Detective Sergeants Reynolds. Doyle
and Hughes were assigned to work up
the case The three detectives, carrying
gripsack, called at the house, the adj
dress OF which CULVER gave in his let
ter and asked to see him. To their sur
prise they were greeted by a young
man, who admitted that he was the
person they sought.
CULVER. however, viewed their call
with more or less suspicion and de-
manded to know at once, before admit
ting them, what their business was
with him. Thereupon the detectives
informed him that they We're messen-
gers from Mr.. Coler's office and that
they called upon him in obedience to
instructions from Mr. Coler to bring
him the money that he had sent for.
In corroboraton of this they produced
the gripsack, which, it was said, was
intended to carry the money, providing
Mr. CULVER would accompany them to
Mr. Coler's office in New York to get it.
CULVER at first demurred at going to
the comptroller's office, but TIE detect
ives argued with him and finally sue
ceeded in convincing him that it was
all right. CULVER reluctantly put on
his coat and hat and, accompanied by
the three detectives, started for this
borough. When the car 1ea bel Myrtle
avenue, it was suggested at the party
get off and indulge in some ieiresf-
ments. CULVER cors autei. ani the dc
tectives marched him int TIE Adams
street police station Wee h. was
locked up.
He was remandei for LIE Zeal eX'
animation, and me doctors have decil-
ed he is insane.