New-York tribune., 1903-01-18
FIGHT OVER DEAD WOMAN.
Raving Husband Assaults Physician and
Policeman-Coroner Called

About O'Clock, when William Brown, the
ianitor and his wife were at dinner in the
apartment house at Coumbus-ave and One
hundred and -fourth-st.. a furious banging Oh
their hall door made them spring to their feet
"Oh my Godr' shouted William Healy,
broker. occupying fiat on the second floor of
the house with his wife; my wife: my wife!
Come and see what's the matter with her
Lying on the threshold. between the folding
doors that divide the back from the front par
lor of the fat they found Mrs. Healy. appar-
entity in d cataleptic state.
% my God. Mary" shouted Mr. Healy.
throwing himself in frenzy on the body of his
wife. Tell me you are not dead"
Brown dispatched his wife for Dr.. Lambert
of No 135 West One-hundred- d-and- -fourth-st,
and while she was gone Mr.. Healy, according
to the janitor. paced the floor, throwing himself
now on the body of his wife and kissing her,
and then running through the halls, shouting
and terrorizing the other occupants.
When the physician arrived Healy watched
him as he knelt over the body. The woman's
waist was open the throat. and as the physi-
clan was about to open it further, Mr.. Healy
sprang at him
Curse -you!r he yelled ferociousIy- III kill
you won't let them hurt you, Mary
Dr. Lambert sprang toward the door. but
Healy was too quick for him. The physician is
a man of slender build, while Healy is said to be
a tau powerfully built man. about twenty-nine
years old. The physician backed away from
his assailant, and held his medicine case before
him HeaIy aimed an upper cut at the phy-
scfan which DR. Lambert lodged Backward
retreated the physician, while Healy struck at
him. raining d shower of blows on the medicine
case. which was soon battered out of shape
Just as he got the physician in a corner OF
the room near the window that faced on Column
int, he
sprang between them.
II am sure he would have killed me- said
DR.. Lambert afterward. If she had not inter
fered He didn't seem to want to strike hef
but he tried to get past her at me.
The excitement had reached this point, when
Brown who had heard the physician s cries 1or
help and realized that Healy had become DAN
yerous called Policeman eastman, OF the west
observation-disclosures station Together the jan
jtor and policeman tried TO restrain HeaiE' VINO
seemed to have the strength of a dozen men,
and threw them off and made again for the
,,l,sician who was trying 10 leave the fiat
eastman blew his whistle from the window,
and il was responded to by Policeman Payne
His arrival seemed to add to the Jury Oh lHe
broker. The policemen, unable to hoio hlih'
summoned more aid by whistling from the VIII
dow Detectives MacManus and Seaman re-
sronded It took their united efforts TO hoIo 'he
man. who now appeared 10 DE d rdNlilS h1ii'-
Mary! Mary, Don't die. Tell me you are not
dead he shrieked in tones that filled the mouse
and brought all the tenants 20 the open ooor
of the fiat in a terror stricken group
An ambulance was called from the j. HOOD
Wright Hospital and when the physician, whose
name is not on the police blotter at the west
observation-disclosures station, arrived he said that
the man was suffering from alcoholism
After a struggle Healy was put into d strait
Jacket and carried shriekng into the ambu-
lance After the excitement was over DF' Lam
bert said that he found blue marks on tht
,voman's neck. ears and face This might nave
been caused by apoplexy heart disease or II
might have been caused by strangulatloh-
I stopped long enough to see that II was /"
Coroner's case and made no turther examine
ton. after Mr.. Healy was taken away '"id
the physician.
Coroner Goldenkranz was assigned 10 the Cast
f;ossin Of those in the house said that Healy ar
rived home Yesterday about p. M Ihen the
voices of the man and woman were nedru vi
their rooms. The janitor said healy ana ms ms
wife lived quietly. going out toBelhef every
night Mrs Healy retiring, and be flad hot
seen her more than half dozen times
The superintendent of the hospital accofulhs
10 Policeman Payne, after while determined 10
tell HeaIy of his wife's death, and began by say
ing his wife was hardly able to live.
Pavne said Healy sprang from ms cot and al
the throat of the superintendent The latter
lodged and three attendants and the superin-
tandenf had TO subdue Healy. Then he was re-
moved TO Bellevue. There DR.. Gregory, the in
sanity expert examined him, but said he was
NOT insane DR. Hyde examined him, and said
,,e was not suffering from alcoholism. He was
finally placed in the prison ward.