New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-15
THREAT TO RAINSFORD.
ARREST TRAINED NURSE.
Said She'd Take HIS Life, Detec-
tiues 4IIege.

When Miss Mary Byron. forty years old, Of
No. 229 East Forty -second-st, was arraiGned
before Magistrate Moss in the Yorkvie Police
Court yesterday afternoon. the magistrate was
told that she had threatened the life OF Dr. Will
lam S. Rainsford, rector of st. Georges Church,
No. Rutherford Place. Miss Byron was a
prisoner. charged with insanity by Harry w.
Chapman of No. 201 East Sixteenth-st. sexton
of St. Georges. and despite her vigorous pro-
tests she was committed to the Psycopathc
Ward at Bellevue Hospital for the usual five
days of observation.
The observation-disclosures and Gallagher, of
the East Twenty-second-st. station-refused to
discuss the case, but part Of the story was
gathered from what they told the magistrate
They said Miss Byron visited DR.. Rainsford in
his rectory on Sunday and there, in the presence
of two women witnesses threatened his life'
talking incoherently about money matters and
saying she would use revolver to solve hef
troubles. She declared, the detectives asserted
that it was case of the rector's life or her own
An effort was made to detain Miss Byron, but
II was not successful, and Dr. Rainsford COM
rruncated with Captain Gallagher, of the East
Tventy-second-st station.
CAPTAIN Gallagher assigned the detectives to
find Miss Byron and they did so about noon
Yesterday at the mission of st. Bartholomews s
church No. 2O9 East Forty -second-st. She
was found in what is known as the servants
branch
When Informed that she under arrest and
must go TO court Miss Byron resisted. She
said II was an outrage, that she had done
nothing, wrong and that she wouldn't be ar
rested She was finally taken to the courthouse
in East FIftv-seventh-st.. and there at the en-
trance she again made a disturbance. This time
the detectives carried her into the courtroom.
Magistrate Moss told the woman of the charge
made against her and she Immediately pro
tested vigorously to her sanity and honesty
and unwillingness to hurt anybody. particularly
Dr. RainsfoTd.
Il am a woman of mind" she said. Il
am trained nurse. and the people who have
employed will bear witness TO my standing
| have always had the sincerest admiration for
Dr. Rainsford ! have always loved to hear his
sermons.
Il have always been edited and elevated in
mind by them. The charge is ridiculous. Harm
Dr. Rainsford! Why, I have always attended
his church. since l a little girl and have
never harmed him in thought. word or deed"
Miss Byron apparently had I. grievance
against some one.
Il had means one time she said land
blame another woman who is lame for my be-
ing in the position / am in. She has my money.
l have been trained nurse for years I
employed a few years ago by Dr.. Mabbott, of
No. 10 Fifth-av and about three years ago
by another doctor. At that time l had charge
OF two old ladies, Mrs Turpin and Mrs. Crosby,
of No. II East Ninth-st."
Several times Miss Byron asserted her love
for St Georges Church. and that she had no
reason in the world for wanting TO harm its rec
tor.
Dr. Rainsford did not appear in court and II
said that he requested that publicity be
avoided in the case
1t was said at the rectory last night that Dr.
RainSfOrd out OF town.