The sun., 1903-11-14
Shot by a Negro Crazed Over
Fancied Wrongs.
SLAYER dLORIES IN HIS DEED.
Woman Ruined Him, He Says, aad
Mr. Green Protected Her.

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He Killed Mr.. Green Because He wousd
Not Tell Him the Address Of the Woman
Who Had Ruined Him-Nothing 70
Prove Mr.. Green Ever Heard Of Her.
Andrew H. Green. in whose brain the
idea Of greater New York than that within
the confines OF Manhattan Island first
originated, and who, with the late Abram
8. Hewitt, was foremost in every move
for the bettement OF the city, Was mur-
dered at his own door yesterday afternoon
by Cornelius Williams, middle-aged
negro, whose unbalanced mind had oon-
jured up a grievance against the aged
philanthropist.
Two shots were fred into Mr.. Green's
body, and either of them was serious
enough to have killed him. Three others
aimed at him by the murderer went wide,
but before they were fired at all the aesasei-
nation had been accomplished and Mr.
Green lay dead on the ground, his assailant
standing over him, revolver in hand, pour
ing out the vilest curses at the body.
The murder OF Mr.. Green was without
shadow of excuse. Never in his life
had the victim seen the murderer before.
and the grievances which the negro poured
into his victims ear before he killed him
concerned matters of which there il not
the least evidence to show Mr.. Green knew
anything at all.
The negro had walked by his side TO the
door of the house, ravinG Of his imagined
wrongs, and Mr.. Green, slightly out of
patience with such persistency. placed his
hand on the mans shoulder and asked him
in kindly tone please to 60 away. For
answer Williams whipped out a heavy
revolver and fred the shots which laid one
of the foremost of American citizens dead at
his feet.
Williams made no attempt to escape.
He stood still while the police took him into
custody and gloried In what he had done
rather than regretted It. He subsidei
from the frenzy Of aEgeEln which ks first
accosted Mr.. Green into a calm silence.
which he only broke when he answered
questions. There was nothing In his de-
meanor after the crime to indicate i'll
sanity. but when he told his story and 1t
developed that for eight years his diseased
mind had been nurturing the grievance
which brought about the tragedy 1t was
clear in the opinion of the authorities,
that he was mentally unbalanced, II not in
all things, at least on the one subject OF the
negro woman on whose account he took q
life.
This woman he called Bessie Davis. About
her the police had been unable to obtain
the slightest information up TO q late hour
last night In 1905 Williams boarded with
the woman and had some trouble with her.
As result, he says, che slandered him 80
that his friends summed him, his fancee
Tilted him. his landlord dispossesed him
and the church Of which he was q promi-
nent member cast him out His every
effort at retaliation, 30 his rawlings ran,
was thwarted because of the protection
which some one whom he believed to be
Andrew II. Green afforded the woman.
For eight years, the fellow says. he has
sought the woman "to cut her lying tongue
from her mouth, but again he was thwarted
by somebody he bel eyed to be Mr. Green.
Finally--he told IL boldly-he determined
to kill Mr.. Green and for a week sought
the opportunity which he got yesterday.
Not another excuse for his crime does
the negro offer. The life Of Andrew II.
Green was sacrificed because of a woman
of whose exist ence there is nothing to show
that Mr.. Green had even heard.
WAITED A WEEK FOR Mr.. GREEN
Cornelius Williams. the murderer, 10 43
years old. He is about S feet o inches tall.
rather light in color, substantially built
and wears good clothes. He has short
side whiskers which come half way down
his cheeks, and his general appearance is
that of a dignifed and respectable oolored
man of some prosperity. He is the last
man who would be picked out as one capable
Of such crime as he committed yesterday.
1t was about a week ago that Williams
was first noticed frequenting the vicinity
Of Mr.. Green's house. at 81 Park avenue.
between Thirty ninth and Fortieth streets.
Joseph Williams OF the Murray Hiil Hotel
noticed him walking up and down past Mr..
Green's house and called the attention Of
John Burns. the carriage starter at the
hotel. TO him.
Last Tuesday the two men noticed Viii
iams again. and Williams said to Burns:
THAT IS a bad looking niger there. Hes
aging for somebody
Looks like crazy man to me- said
Burns.
HID IN THE yEsTIBuLB.
For an hour the two men watched TIL
negro walk up and down the block Their
hey went into the hotel, and when they came
,ut again the man had disappeared. He
was not seen near Mr. Green's house again
Until yesterday afternoon.
1t was l O'Clock when he was first ob.
served standing in front Of the house. anc
ne didn't go more than dozen PAGES from
i at any time. Every once in a while he
ooke Cd anxiously up and down the block az
hough in search Of somebody.
Suddenly he glanced up the street and a.
he did 80 man came in sight around thu
corner of the little park at the Forfeit
street station Of the Madison avenue trolley
inA. which runs under Murray Hill at thi
point. The moment the negro cav thi:
man, he opened the front gate Of Mr.. Green
house, and. walking into the deep vestibule
himself,
The man he had seen was Andrew II
Green, and the negro evidently knew him
by sight. Mr.. Green had been at his Law
Office at PA Broadway most Of the morn.