New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-03-13
KILLS WIFE AND SELF.
act OF INSANE PAINTER.
Discharged in Court Despite
WarniHg.

NJ YET. Cav twenty-seven years old. 90 No.
s15 East Fo-tcth-st-. vas murdered FEIudy i-ie--'
tv hcr insane husband Robert J. Gray thlEy-slN
wears Old After crushing her skull with heavy
6f,-,br-u GRAY drank oxalic acid. and, to make
suicide dcuhly sure turned on the gas Gray had
thought that his wife was trying 20 poison MN
Gray was usfntcr by trade. Win MS fan1ly'
an echt-vear-oId son and a younger daughter lived
Jane GRAY p sister: GEORGE Gray. II. a oroiheF'
and Miss Margaret Toal. a sister OF Mrs GRAY.
since November Gray had been out OF employ
rneut but the family lived comfortably on 'he
savings OF Gray and ais brother.
Cray for some time had haliucinatons mat MS
wife was trying to poison him. and had been wary
about eating food I'm. hts home He even mad
thought The grocer who served the family was a-So
trying TO poison him
on February Gray was taken 20 Bellevue 10
be examined as 20 his sanity. Two Gays lalsr
Mrs Gray called al, the hospital and asked tor the
discharge o: her husband. saying that she Nah'eo
10 take him home This could not be DONE LOT at
the time Cray was a prisoner for insanity. Ut
Flavius Packer saws that he told Mrs. Gray that
her husband was insane and dangerous and advised
her TO have him placed in asylum. Policeman
BeIlinger. Dr. Packer further says. was informed
that Cray paranoiac ana ought 70 DC
committed 70 an insane asylum. at the time Dr.
Packer made this statement TO the policeman Gray
was being taken to the Yorkville police court
There at the request OF Mrs Gray. her husband
was discharged notwithstanding the report OF the
examiner at Bellevue.
dav night. and Cray babe them all good night
About $50 a n. yesterday boy living In an
upstairs fat srnelled gas he was leaving the
house He traced It to the Gray fat. He called
Pa-rolr1an RYAN. Of the East Thirty hfth-st sta
ton who broke open the door and went In to IN
vesticate The first one he found was Mrs Gray
dead IN bed The right side OF her skull had been
crushed In by dumbben. which lay beside the
bed Gray was dead IN the bathroom The gas
vas turr cd on full but DEATH It thought was
caused by poisoning.
The rest OF the family were stiu asleep ana kne"
nothing Of the tragedy. No noise. they said, had
besn heard durIns the night It is surmised that
CIV in sudden fit OF insanity. crept 10 his Wlie 3
hed and struck her the mead with a cuiIooeii'
killing her instantly. -, ., A.. 18th
room Scravled on f. in the handwriting OF Gray
was the following sentence. proving MS ihstlIS :
Il done this after being poisoned py .heT.
No other message o. reason Tor the suicIls was
In the bedroom adjoining. that IN which Mrs NJ.
GRAY was killed. Miss Toal her sister: MISS
Bridget Doyle and the children, passed tne nlsiIs
The family pet. dog. SLEPT on lounge IN the
parlor. but gave no alarm ..,, ..,s
ar the man had been kept IN CUSTODY. salo
Coroner Scholer when he learned the facts OF the
trareIv .thle terrible deed could not have hap
pe1ed II Is the same old story, sending a man
with -fld decisions back 70 lis home 10 9Toou oNt
his crazy thoughts. and finally 10 become a mani
Coroner SchoIer found IN the rooms a whiskey
hot-Ia us-tlv SLED with oNal!c acid, from Wtllch u
Is inferred that Il the poison Gray uLanA-
There were acid stains on his clothing.