The St. Johns herald., 1899-06-17
A MAD-MAN STABS HIS
 BROTHER.

| character. Then ne rushed nearly nak-
 ed into the street, still hrandishing his
 bloody weapon and slashing with it at
 everybody he met in his mad race. He
 was finally overpowered and captured at Hayes and Market street by Policeman
 L. M. Benjamin, after he had held the
 neighhorhood in teror for ten minutes. The Savilles came to this country from
 Warsaw, the ancient Polish capital,
 three years ago. George is 21 years of
 age and John is one year his senior. The younger brother is baker and has been
 employed at the Vienna bakery on
 Grant avenue. Until four days ago,
 when he began to show signs of mental
 disorder, John Saville worked as dish
 washer at the St, Nicholas Hotel. He
 was dismissed then because of hls errat-
 ic behavior.
 At I'D Polk the Saville brothers occu-
 pied one room on the second floor, sleep
 ing in separate beds. For week previ-
 ous to his murderous outbreak John had
 suffered from insomnia, and on Friday
 he began to be haunted by delusions.
 His brother then arranged 10 have him examined by Dr, Levitt, with view to placing him under restraint, but when the physician visited their room both the Savilles were absent. As John Sa- vile had displayed no violent symptoms of Arrangement ffis brother was not anx- ious about him and never dreamed that his malada would become dangerous.
 About 7;30 o'clock George Saville was awakened by his brother, who asked excitedly for protection against some one who, he said, was trying to kill him. George sprang out of the bed talking soothingly to the manic, and began to dress. He had put on his underclthing when John snatced up big claspknife with five-inch dirk blade from the tab- le and began plunging it into his broth- er's body. Again and again the knife blade sank into the flesh ofthe maniac's victim, while it's wielder yelled in fren- zied delight as he saw the blood spurt over the bed, floor and walls. After re- ceiving eight wounds George Saville managed to elude his assailant and make through the door of the room and down the stairway. On the landing below he fell from weakness, facs downward. In an instant the bloodthirsty lunatc was upon him again. Crouching upon the fallen mans back. John Saville buried | the knife blade just below both his punctureing each lung.
 The mad mans frenzy then called for | fresh subjects for murder and, leaving l his brother, he ran downstairs and out | of the street door, wearing only an und- CT and outer shirt. He raced up Polk l street te Hayes, striking wildly with his weapon at chance pedestrians. His ap- pearance served to clear the street in a 1 couple of minutes, and, as he turned on on Hayes street toward Larkin, the rush to give him clear passage assumed the of panic.
 At the intersection Of Hayes, Larkin and Market street Saville's general de- sire to do murder found specific object The conjunction of thoroughfares was crowded and in the scatter ing that followed the horrid appearance 1l Saville, spattered all over with blood | and almost nude, two men nearly came | knife. He rushed withupraised weapon at S. T. Sawyer, foreman in the of an afternoon news paper, but Sawyer closed with him and seized his knife arm beioreit could de- scend. There was brief struggle. and Sawyer, flinging the crazy man from him, took to flight.
 Saville next struck at R. +. Bonnell of 194S Market street. Bonnell dedged he blow and ran into the St. Nicholas drug store, pursued by the manas. The store was already crowded with refuges and, as Bonnell crossed the threshold, the door was locked in the face of his pursues. A south bound Lakln-street gar, crowded with passengengers divert sd Saville's attention at this juncture. He leaped for the rear platform, land ing on the lower step and holding on to the rail with both hands. The conduc- tor tried to shove hlm off, but was not until the car had crossed Market street, when vigororous kick in .he breast sent him sprawling upon the pavement.
 After Saville regained his feet and re- turned to Hayes and LarBin streets Po- iceman Benjamin came running to the scene. He swung his club at Saville, and the latter. who had grown weak, dropped on the sidewalk, losing hold of his knife. Benjamin then closed with him and after brief struggle put pair of handcuffs on his wrists. Saville was charged with assault to murder, and, Tn a straitjacket, was placed in padded cell in the insane ward of ,he Receiving Hospital.
 George Saville was found in the room of Miss Bertha Low, the landlady at I'D Polk treet. At the Receiving Hospital pr. Hartley found wounds inhis right :hest and shoulder, left chest and shoul fer, right loin, lower back and right iorearm-ten in all. Both lungs were and either of these wounds may prove fatal. He made statement his brothers wild work, an which he expressed the belief that John vas insane.