New-York tribune., 1903-01-29
FIGHT WITH PATIENT.
CHASE THROUGH HOTEL,
Son of Insurance Man Struggles
1cifh Police.

George Tyler Eldridge. the son OF George D
Eldridge. vice-president and director OF the
Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association with
offices at No 200 Broadway. and who lives at
Riverdale-on- the-H Hudson. created a disturbance
in the Grand Central Station last evening. after
ward running out and into the corridor OF the
Hotel Manhattan. where he finally was taken
into custody by three policemen. He was with
Thomas Maher who said he was an attendant
from a private sanatorium at Stamford Conn
where Mr.. Eldridge had been for some months
He said that IL was the custom Of the sana-
torium to send some Of their patients once a
month to this city TO let them go to the theatre
He had been sent down Tuesday with Mr.
E1dridge. who had spent the night with his
family at RiverdaIe-on-the-H Hudson and yester-
day had been taken to Broadway theatre
After the performance he was taken to the
Grand Central Station The patient had been
under the impression that he was going back 70
his home in RiverdaIe. and when he learned
that such was not the case. but to be taken
back to Stamford. he made strenuous objection
He refused. Maher told the police. to board
the train. While in the waiting room. Maher
said, the patients father entered to see him on
The patient declared he would not go back to
Stamford, the father and attendant insisted that
he must. Finally. and after attracting a good
deal Of attention from the crowd that thronged
the waiting room. the young broke away
and ran out into Forty-second-st- He ran
rapidly up toward Madison-ave.. and darted
into the Hotel Manhattan.
The attendant and the patients father fol-
lowed according to Maher. In the mean time
Roundsman Faconer and Policemen Sullivan
and Burns. of the East Fffty-frst-st station.
had Joined in the chase They into the
hotel, and there began fierce chase about the
1rr4o N,E
The fleeing patient finally slipped and fell to the
floor and then the policemen held him. A
call was sent out for the patrol wagon from the
Fifty-frst-st. station, and the young man was
taken there He resisted the efforts Of the
police anu Maher, the attendant, to place him in
the vehicle and shouted loudly. On the way
to the house he continued resistance. and when
taken from the wagon into the station fought.
Maher said he must get his charge back to
Stamford on some of the night trains, but
the sergeant in charge thought the mans con
dition such that he had best not be taken away,
and ordered that he be taken to Bellevue. When
Bellevue was mentioned Eldridgs became ex-
cited again.
NV Cod he cried. ANY place but Bellevue:
take me any place but there. III do anything
you want but don't take down there
In spite of his entreates and protestations an
ambulance was callOd and the patient sent 20
Bellevue.
Dr. Gregory gave Eldridge some medicine cal
culated to sootbe him and said he was suffering
from hysterfa, and that he thought he could
safely be taken to Stamford.
Maher and his charge took the O'Clock train
for Stamford at the Grand Central Station
Mr. EIdridge, ST., last night said that his
son had been to see him, but that he knew
nothing about the scene at the station, as he
the train, when hi. appeared to be all
right.