The sun., 1903-11-14

talsn through ths street to the prison, but
wasn't an indignant citizen with lynohins
proposal In sight.
CRAZY, HE Council SAYS.
When williams had been looked up his
lawyer saw him in prison and then made
this statement:
THE man is undoubtedly insane. He
has brooded over some wrong done him
by q woman named Bessie Davis, assisted
by some man named Green. He appears
to have confused Andrew II. Green with
some other Green. I shall have him make
a long statement on Monday
BAvED TO DIR. RAMsDRLL ABOUT Mr.. oRBHN.
Dr. Benjamin Ramsdell OF bs1 Lexington
avenue, the owner Of the house at 426 West
Ffty-second street, from which Williams
was dispossessed by DR.. Ramsdell's agent,
Mr.. Calhoun, told q story about Williams
last night that tends to show that the man
is lunatic.
AT the time this man Williams was dis
possessed. said DR.. Ramsdell, who is one
OF the Fire Department surgeons. ! was
at the Forest Lake Club In White county,
Penn. I knew nothing about the affair,
~ my agent attends to all my business.
The club is four miles from the railroad
station, and when one Of the servants came
to me one day in August and told me that
a negro wanted to see me was surprised.
II went down, and there stood this man
Williams. He asked me II was DR.. Rams
dell and when said was he hauled out
this dispossess notice and waved 1t In my
face. He demanded to know what 1t meant,
and told him knew nothing about 1t.
I pacifed him, however, as I thought he
looked and acted like dangerous man.
y induced him to leave the club and sit
under some trees with me. He then told
me that woman had caused all OF his
troubles. He mentioned the name OF An
drew H. Green as being friend OF the
woman, and said he was going to get even
with both of them for the ISLANDERS they had
spread about him.
WARNING FOR THE PH1LANTHRoP1sr
He wanted me to write letter 10 my
agent ordering him to let him live In tho
house. / went upstairs and got my gun
as a precaution and then wrote a note
telling Mr.. Calhoun to do as he liked about
the matter. Williams refused to take
this, saying it would not do.
so to pacify him I wro.e a second note.
telling the agent to let him stay at an In
crease of rent. That satisfied him and he
went away. He was, In my opinion,
very dangerous man and certainly not IN
his right mind. After he had gone / wrote
to Calhoun to use his Judgment about
keeping him.
Il afterward told medical friend Of
mine. who was also friend OF Mr.. Green,
about the threats this man had made and
thought he would tell Mr.. Green. do not
know whether he ever did or not. When
got back learned from Mr.. Calhoun that
the jantress Of the house regarded Williams
as dangerous and wouldn't stay unless no
was put out.
NO TRACE OF THE DAVIS WOMAN
At the Gilbert House, in West Twenty
sixth street, where Williams says he lived,
Proprietor johnson said last night that he
had never heard Of the man. At the Mount
Olivet Baptist Church, the Rev. Charles T.
Walker said he had never heard Of Williams
or Of the Davis woman. The pastor OF
st. Marks M. e. Church, the other colored
church in Ffty-third street. also declared
that. he had never heard Of Williams.
Dr. Naher Of 10 Wsss Fifty second street,
'Williams's las. employer. said that he knew
very little about the man, save that he
employed him to attend his furnace and
that he had done his work we'll he had
never spoken to him, but among the SER
wants he was known as a quiet man. Will
liams also tended the furnaces at Henry M.
Tilford's house, "a West Ftfty-seoond street,
.:o q Vt
street. These mon said they simply knew
Williams as quiet and good workman.
Reuben Smith and George o. johnson.
two other colored men who tend furnaces
in Fifty-second and the adjoining streets.
said last night that they knew Williams
well, and that for some time they had looked
upon him as lunatic.
The house at ls2 West Fifty-third street,
where Williams said Bessie Davis lived. was
occupied up to yesterday by the colored
branch Of the Y. NJ. C. A. The caretaker
of the house knew nothing about the woman
and had never heard OF Williams.
JURY BEGINS AN INQUEST.
Coroner's Physician O'Hanlon made an
autopsy on Mr.. Green's body at the house
last night, and afterward gave out this
statement
But two Of the bullets entered Mr.. Green's
body. That which caused almost instant
death entered the left side Of the head at
the temple, and went clear across the top
of the brain. The other bullet went ints the
abdomen and lodged in the back near tho
left kidney
Coroner jackson empanelled Jury last
night and took It to the Green house. where
the members viewed the body and listened
to the affidavit Of William H. Burns Of as
Lexington avenue, one OF the witnesses Of
the murder. The Coroner then adjourned
the inquest until 1880 o'clock to-day. whom
1t will be resumed In his Office. The Jury
is made up OF these men:
Alfred E. Marking Of u West Forty-seventh
street, Robert Walker OF IS West Seventy
fourth street. Walter W. Welton Of 81 East
Forty-hrst street. Joseph l.. Hilton Of ~
East Fortieth street. James Wilton Of 81
East Forty-h first street. Waller u. White and
Theodore C. Baylor OF the Murray Hill Hotel.
z. W. Radcliffe OF SIS West Nineteenth street.
Mornsy Williams Of sos West Eiehty-eiRhth
street, Robert L. Farouhar OF i5s Madison
avenue, Joseph F. soofleld OF the Murray Hill
Hotel and william H. Haskin Of ~ East Forty
first street.