The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-28
FIGHT WITH MAD PHYSICIAN.
TWO OCCUPANTS or A sCOW BAT
TIE ALL DOWN EAST RIVER.

Or. Macfarlan, Who Had Escaped From Z
Sanitarfuni, Arises Through . Hatehway
Like an Apparftion TO Patrick O'GOr
man. VINO Was in Charge, sRbdued
DR.. Duncan Macfarlan Of West Phila.
delphia had a narrow escape from death
In the East River early yesterday morning
With a curious precedence, he had pre-
ssnted himself on Wednesday at the River.
crest sanitarium, in Astoria, l.. l., and
asked to be taken care Of. as he feared
he had overworked himself and was in
danger of harm due to insufficient control
Of himself He desired rest and treatment,
he said.
DR.. William Z. Dold. the house physician,
concluded that he was suffering merely
from overstrain Of his nervous system. and
he put the patient down, he said yesterday,
as Q victim Of nervous prostration. believ-
ing that . few days of rest and care would
set him all right again. On Thursday, DIR.
Macfarlan, who is 10 years old, weighs 1870
pounds and has a wife and children in
West Philadelphia, asked DIR. Dold several
times to be allowed to talk over his symp-
toms with him, and each time. when DIR.
bold said that he would be glad to have
discussion with him, DR.. Macfarlan
observed:
Well, in little while will talk with you
This was repeated so often that DIR. Dold
made up his mind that the Philadelphia
physicians condition was worse than he
had at FIRST supposed, and on Thursday
night he sent Nurse John Koran to sleep
in the room with him. Koran fell asleep.
according to DR.. Dold, although he is re-
garded az an experienced nurse, and while
he Numbered DIR. Macfarlan arose and
donned his clothes and slipped quietly out
Of Q window of his second-story room.
whence he could drop five feet to the roof
Of . veranda- Impinging upon this veranda
roof, on the west side of the sanitarium.
are branches Of q gnarled tree. and the knots
and twisted branches of this tree form u
pretty good natural ladder to the ground.
Down this tree DR.. Macfarlan went, as the
open window revealed later.
About O'Clock in the morning yesterday.
Mrs.. William Moylan. wife OF the superin-
tendent OF the Consolidated Gas Company's
plant on the river bank just below the
sanitarium, was aroused from her slumbers
BY noises which she took to be the work
of river thieves. She swoke her spouse.
who got his revolver aud went out and
down to the river.
At the river Moylan awoke William Cook.
night Waterman of the pier. They heard
cries for help coming from the water.
Come out Of that" exclaimed Moylan
when they neared the waters edge, come
out of that or I'll blow your brains out"
He supposed that he was speaking to
river thieves whom he could not rec in
the darkness.
Don't shoot! I am drowning. Help.
helpi' was the response he received, the
words being interInngled with gurgling
sounds as Of a man strangling in the water
Soon the gurgling sounds ceased and |
Moylan and Cook concluded the man had |
been drowned. In the darkness and silence |
hey continued their search for anything |
that might develop. and finally reached
which is In daily use to carry e1cavated !
material from Manhattan. at the foot OF |
West Forty-fifth street. to the Astoria |
shore to hll in marsh lands there.
On the "cabin deck of the scow hey found |
he hat, coat. waistcoat and white shirt |
" man, together with his shoes and stock |
ngs. his watch and the jewelry which or |
iinarily Is found In weli-to-do mans shirt. |
This was at the conclusion Of a trail that had |
led along shore. where the light Of a lantern |
mad revealed to the searchers q mans foot. |
prints in the mud and had led them to |
believe that a man had been in wading and |
had gone thence TO the pier and the scow.
Papers In the coat pockets led to the !
that the DIR. Mscfarlan whose |
name they bore must have been connected |
with the neighboring Rivercrest Sanitarium. |
and telephone from Sup, Moylen's house |
10 the hospital revealed that the conjecture |
was right. The calls for help that had come |
from the water and the finding Of the clothes |
On the scow seemed to make a clear case |
In connection with he vanishing of the !
doctor from the hospital through the tell !
ale open window, and the sanitarium |
authorities acquiesced in the opinion that |
DR. Macfarlan had drowned himself
When Patrick O'Gonnan, who il both |
captain and crew OF the soow, came 70 duty |
yesterday morning he lea armed from Moylan |
and Cook of the events Of the night and then |
seated himself on the snubbing post Of the !
scow and was towed out 10 the river channel !
ON his way to West Forty-fifth street for |
another load Of dumpings.
When under the span of the new East |
River bridge. opposite Delaney street, |
O'Gorman was all hut paralyz~d with as
matches At the rear II the scow lift and a
man In uousers and undershirt come up |
The companionway.
IL I'D had q drop or Two or three I'd |
have thought ] understood 1t. siud O'Gor- |
msn, but had had nary a drop the nigh,
and j didn't know what To make Of the ,
sppsrition, ill ] suddenly remembered III. |
story Mr.. Moylan and the watrl,maI had \
Told me " the dros ming Of the lunatic from |
the sanitariuni. ana right away I knew that
I WAS face To face With "a mailman. He |
said be was going To swim ~ New YORK |
and started % jump overheard.
We'll. we grapplsd Thought ss he had |
fsllsd 10 drown himself alone - tl,e donk /
I'D not ls, him do u in my company. Bu, |
10 didn't like II a bii
- xani "a swim Ia A.s YORK he ,aid, |
10 mo alons, will you
''Diyil . bit yet q while, says !, and what |
do you want Ia swim to Nss YORK foI on |
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