The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-23
WOMAN SHOOTS 5 IN STREET.
BULLETS AIMED At PHYSICIAN
VINO TREATED HER.
One Bystander. n Law Student. Is Badly
wOunded-Dr. BterhOn and the Other
Victim Get on with slight Injuries
ply stefan says Woman Is Insane,

staH OF the German dlspensary, was iol-
lowed from his office yesterday afternoon
IVY a former woman patient, who fired five
shots M him ut the corner OF Fffty-ninth
street and Madison avenue. Two OF these
shots struck the doctor. one in the left
shoulder and Inc other in the right arm.
One Of the other bullets struck Otto II.
Droege, a lawyer, of 81 Park row. and another
hit Paul Sheehau. a Columbia University
student. The fifth bullet went wild.
Of The men injured young Sheehan was
hurt the worst. The bullet struck him
in the middle of the back. He was re-
novel from the Presbyterian Hospital to
st. Lukc's last night and the doctors were
irving TO find the bullet. Both he and
Droege were shot because they happened
to be in the crowd on the corner when the
woman opened her fusillade on the doctor.
Droege escaped, with a flesh wound in the
arm.
The woman who did the shooting il OF
rlia Schneider. who has been living for
the last three weeks AZ 3lse Anthony avenue.
in The Bronx. From the fact that she
wore q bonnet fashioned somewhat after
those worn by Salvation Army lassies che
vas al first taken for a member Of that
organization. She told the police that she
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reen a sister in Germany. She has a suit
against DR.. Bierhoff for s25, 900 damages for
malpractice in the Supreme Court. The
State Medical Association ia defending it
for the doctor.
The woman told a rambling story to the
police Of having been operated upon by the
doctor According to DR.. Bierhof. the
woman is a ~psranoiac, has been pronounced
SO by experts and for the last five years
has been writing him threatening letters
under the delusion that he had injured
her.
He got = warrant out for her some time
ago in the Yorkville court, but says that
the police told him they could not find her.
The police believe the woman il crazy.
The place selected by the woman for the
shooting could not have been a worse one.
us there is a continual crowd transferring
from the cars there. Or. Bierhof's office is
at 81 Fast Fifty-eighth street. According
20 his story the woman has rever visited
his Office. but a year ago way laid him in the
street. He had not seen her again until
yesterday.
DIR. Bierhon left his Office about > o'clock
in the afternoon and walked east through
Fifty-eighth street. turning up Madison
avenue The woman apparently had been
hanging about the neighborhood for some
time. Some persons we're found who
thought they had remembered seeing her
pacing up and down near the corner. The
woman was behind the doctor when he
turned up Madison avenue. He had not seen
her and walked ON unconscious OF what
was in store for him. She is a pale, thin
faced woman and wore a rather expensive
Persian lamb coat and a cheap black skirt.
She had on a black beaqer bonnet with a
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hornets, only there was nothing written
on this band.
As DIR. Bierhoh. who is a short. slender
man. walked up the avenue towards Fifty
) ninth street the woman quickened her pace
z until she was about seven feet behind him.
Trolley cars were stopping to unload pas
sengers, and two traffic policemen, BOYLE
and Long. we're busy taking care of the jam
of cars and vehicles of all kinds.
Few people noticed the woman, and no.
body paid particular attention to her. The
doctor started to cross Fifty-nlnth street
from the southeast corner, and had got
about two feet from the curb when the
woman pulled out a six shooter from her
breast, levelled IL at the man not five feet
ahead Of her and blazed away. The first
bullet struck the doctor in the left shoulder
and made him wheel around. He saw the
woman standing there with the smoking
gun in her hand, and then he started to run
around her. crouching in an effort to get
Rwav from the other shots. As he started
making ~circlesl the woman fired again and
again. She was turning around, too, fol-
lowing the doctor. The second bullet
struck the doctor in the right arm. As the
gun kept blazing away there were shrieks
of terror from the crowds on the corner.
lomg Sheehau and Droege had been
standing on the southwest corner waiting
for cars. Sheehan fell with the bullet in
his back, hat Droege did not know that
he had been bit until later when the blood
began to- trickle down his arm.
The traffic policeman ran to The woman
and grabbed her before she COuld fire the
last cartridge in the revolver. By that
time the doctor had ceased doing circles
and was linpiEg down Madison avenue
toward his homr. Before he had gone
far two men ran up and grabbed him. The
doctor was very pale.
I'm shot. 7 need help" he gasped.
The two men pulled him along TO where
tho two policemen we're holding the strlg-
Cling woman. AZ she saw the doctor she
WrenChed one OF her hands free and slapped
.;m IN the face. ~ kill you yet she
screamed.
Royle and Long. the two policemen. had
10 fight ~ get the woman into a drug store
in Madison avenue. The injured men
were taken into the same place and an
Rmbulance sent for. 1t was found that
Dr. Bierhof : wounds were not dangerous,
and when he discovered this be asked to
lie helped TO his home around the corner.
prDepe and Sheehan were taken in the
ambulance TO the Presbyterian Hospital
and the woman was sent in a patrol wagon
20 the East Fifty-tirst street station. From
there she Was taken 70 the Sixty-seventh
street station to be sea rched by tie matron.
II was then discovered that she was carry
log a short dog Whip under her skirt.
7 didn't mean 10 shoot him., she said.
Il meant 10 FIRE in the air and then TO horse
whip him" She had SIS IN money and a
bundle Of papers. Some of them proved to
lie papers in the suit she has against the
doctor in the Supreme Court. The suit was
begun in March, 1908, and Howe h Hum
mel were her lawyers then. There were
nlso what appeared TO be signed statements
by doctors that they had found the woman
suffering from various troubles. At first
hhe said that she was a designer Of patterns,
and accused the doctor Of stealing some OF
her designs. She said she came here from
tiermany twelve years ago, and five years
Ogo had gone AZ a patient to DR.. Bierhof.
She told the police and reporters who ques-
toned her that be had operated upon her
many times, and that her condition became
such that she had 10 go to Bellevue Hospital.
She said that she had visited the DOCTOR first
on September Il. 1907. and that II was in the
following November that she had gone TO
Bellevue. The pistol she had bought when
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