New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-06-24
SLAIN BECAUSE HE SNORED
WOMAN CUT HER HUSBANDS THROAT
WITH A RAZOR
VICTIM DIES IN HosPITAL-sHp rs THOUGHT
TO Be INSANE

VICTIM DIES IN A HosPIrAI.-sHp rs THOUGHT
TO BID INSANE
Harvey J. Ramsey. thrty-sx years old. a ticket
seller In the Madison Square Garden. had his throat
cut In his room in the Garden Hotel Madison-ave
and Twenty-seventh-st. yesterday morning. Before
he died he said his wife did II. She said she had
done II because he snored and disturbed her. but
she again denied that she had killed him. She was
arrested. She is frail woman. OF refined appear
ance and is thought 20 be insane.
Ramsey has been living at the hotel about two
years His father has also been living there on
the fourth floor He has been making arrange
ments to move TO the third floor. where his son
lived with his wife.
1t $50 o'clock yesterday morning when Ram
.ey rushed of his room and down the corridor
toward Matilda Gellin. a domestic. who was at
work there. He cried Go get doctor! My
throat's CUT
Blood was streaming from the mans neck and
ne staggered and fell He could not raise himself
and the woman left him there she shrieked and
ran downstairs to the proprietor. He ran out to
several doctors homes in the neighborhood. but
each one was out. Then ne told Policeman Nash,
OF the West Thirtieth-st. station. who sent hurry
call TO Bellevue Hospital for an ambulance. The
ambulance soon arrived in charge OF Dr. Anderson
DR.. Anderson. Policemen Nash and Lauer and
the servant were gathered about Ramsey when he
looked up and said: My wife did It"
Or. Anderson that the wound was a terrible
one the mans throat having been cut nearly all
the way across. AS he was working. Ramsey In
terrupted again and said;
Il was asleep when 1 felt sharp pain in my
throat and l woke up. my wife with
bleeding razor standing over me"
The doctor made up a hasty bandage and then
hurried away to the hospital with him. corps
O, surgeons there took the case. but were unable
10 save his life. and he died at O'Clock.
The woman was found in her room sitting calmly
IN a chair II is believed from her language that
she is insane She placed under arrest and
taken TO the West Thirteth-st. station. She told
Sergeant DAILY that she had cut her husbands
throat because he snored and she disturbed
by him. Then she denied that she had cut him.
but said there had been something the matter with
one of the arteries OF his throat and she had been
fixing II with a razor when she cut him. Again she
said her husband had been shaving and had cut
himself. She at once regarded demented
person, but Nash took her 10 the Jefferson Market
Court where he arraigned her before Magistrate
Cornell Magistrate Cornell when he heard the
did not know, but he thought so. as she sometimes
spoke nationally and at times irrationally. She was
Mrs Ramsey said she had been married to her
husband eight years, and again she said she had
been at the hotel with her husband only since Feb
ruary After her arraignment she was asked If she
Quarrel with my husband?" she asked in low
Y fe With tfD my h1sband? Certainly not Why like
him Certainly l like my husband"
Il cut his throat because he snored much. He
disturbed me ! wanted 10 the color OF his
blood. II was very peculiar and the strangest kind
! ever saw"
In an ante-mortem statement TO Coroner Bausch
Ramsey said that he was in bed asleep about $3.50
o'clock when ne awoke from a sharp pain in his
throat He his wife standing over him. She
had no weapon. He said ne out into the hall
FOR help. He thought his wife must have tried to
kill him. because there was one else in the room
with them
Ramsey said his wife had been respondent for
two days. so much that his attention had been
attracted her because OF II. He believed she
mentally unbalanced when she cut him, and he said
he did not hold her responsible