New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-06

Hanly, and said he a book agent, OF NO.
300 East Fifty-ninth-st
About o'clock Hanly went to the Arch
bishops house and rang the bell. which was
answered by the butler. John Nestor Nestor
opened the door. and saw standing on the steps,
he said a stockily built man. who asked to see
Archbishop Corrigan.
81 didn't like the mans looks" said the butler,
so I told him the Archbishop was engaged and
could not be seen at that hour. Then he asked
to see the Archbishop's secretary, Father Con-
molly. / admitted the man, and told him to walt
in the reception hall. He stepped inside, and as
1 turned to close the door after him heard
sudden noise behind Turning, saw the
man I had just admitted running down the hall
in the direction OF the dining ROOM"
This hall is about forty feet in length. and
at the end of 1t is the main entrance to the din
ing room. Hanly went into this room and
grabbed up the first thing he could lay his hands
on which large cut glass bowl He threw
the bowl against the wall the opposite side
of the room 1t struck near the ceiling. made a
great dent in the wall and fell in pieces on the
floor Piece after piece of tableware, cut glass
and silver Hanly hurled with all his strength
against the wall or threw on the floor. Then he
grabbed the chairs and slung them about the
room He jerked the rugs from the floor and
ground pieces Of the smashed cut glassware into
its polished surface.
In the mean time Nestor, the butler, had run
TO the street door and cried for the police No
officer appeared, but two young men. whose
names the police did not learn, were passing at
the time. and responded to Nestor's calls for
aid
Nestor told them that insane man was
wreckng the furniture in the dining room.
They went In and grapped with Hanly. The
three men struggled for five minutes Archbishop
Corrigan and Father Connolly, who had been
attracted from their rootSs upstairs by the din
of crashing glass and breaking furniture. stand
ing in the hallway encouraging the two stran-
gers They finally succeeded in overpowering
Hanly and threw him down on the floor, where
they held him for twenty minutes until the
police came.
When Father Connolly saw the nature of the
disturbance first coming downstairs he ran
to the telephone and called up Police Head
quarters. From Police Headquarters word was
sent to the East Fifty first-st. station, where
Sergeant Hayes was In command. Two police
man McAune and Hickey, were sent immedl-
ately to the Archbishop's house They placed
Hanly under arrest and took him to the station
house When he arraigned before the ser
geant Hanly kept repeating over and over:
of the Archbishop afford 70 go to Rome
to get a red feather in his cap he can afford to
fix up my brothers grave in Calvary.
When asked why he entered the house Hanly
would only repeat in maudln tone the SEN
tence quoted. Nothing more than his name and
address could be got out of him.
Archbishop CCrrigan was the first of any OF
the household to get downstairs from his private
apartments the second floor when the noise
Of the disturbance reached him. Directly behind
him was Father Connolly. During the struggle
the Archbishop stood in the doorway leading
into the dining room and told the butler and the
two strangers what TO do and how to control
Haniy. II was at first thought that Hanly had
been drinking, but no trace of liquor could be
detected at the station