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saying. Il have a case in the Supreme
Court against him now
A. the iorkville Court. where she was
arraigned and remanded for a hearing to-
morrow morning. she said that she was
q years old and had no occupation.
L am a Sister Of Charity" she said. L
belonged Ia the Protestant Episcopal
sisterhbod in Germany
Her only relative was a brother, Paul
Schneider. who. she said. was the chief
engineer Of the Carnegie Steel Compsny's
plant at Sharon. Pa.
DIR. Bierhof told Detective Tobin and the
reporters. last night that the womsn.hsd been
sent 10 him from the German dispensary
fQrtreatment for bladder and kidney trouble.
She was a charity patient, he said, who had
been referred 10 him by one of his colleagues
al the dispensary. -She was under my
treatment" said the doctor, i'm all for about
hve months and left me cured. Soon after
the date of her last visit she began annoying
me with insulting and obscene and, later.
with threatening letters. When the matter
became intolerable to me | placed her
letters before DIR. George NJ. Jacoby, who
stated tn me that in his opinion the woman
was a p%aTanoiac. and advised that l have
her arrested and committed. | did this
and she was committed TO Bellevue and
held there for observation. Her brother.
Paul Schneider. of Sharon. Pa, then
promised me that il I would consent TO her
release from Bellevue he would become
responsible for her and would see that
she was placed in a private institution and
later on send her back 10 Germany. He
did not do What he promised and she has
heen annoying me ar intervals ever since
DR.. BieThof said that the woman was I'M
undoubtedly insane when she first came 70
him, but that her insanity fits were periodl-
cal, about every six months. Whenever
she had one of these spells. he said, she
began TO make trouble for him, going TO the
police and writing him letters, The woman,
the doctor said, had waylaid him a year &
al the CornP Of Ninth street and Third
avenue. He called a policeman. but the
latter refused to go after the woman and
arrest her. he said, although he said that he
would ppear in court against her, The
doctor said that after this occurred he had
written TO the Police Commissioner and de-
manded protection from the woman. The
case was investigated by detectives, and on
their advice the doctor said he had got a
warrant in Horkville Court. He said that
the police had told him several times after
that they could find no trace OF the woman.
IL feel sure said the doctor, that had
the police authorities given the matter the
attention which |, as a citizen and taxpayer,
had a right to demand and did demand. the
woman would have been rendered harmless.
| consider the woman far less responsible for
the fact that three men were reTiously
wounded to-day than ! do the police authori-
ties"
The doctor declared that when the woman
brought suit the State Medical Association
had Investigated the nature Of the suit and
his own conduct in the matter and had
then volunteered, as is is practice. TO take
charge of the defence, which was done,
DR.. Bierhof's own lawyer, A. :. Gilbert,
retiring from the case. As soon as the
State Medical Association o up the de-
fence" said the doctor. Howe Il Hum
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attempts made to settle the suit
A number of physicians called upon DR..
Bierhof to congratulate him upon his
escape. They seemed to have heard of
the trouble DR.. Bierho6 had been having
with the woman.
The police at the Fifty-hrst street station
said they remembered that the doctor had
complained about the woman before. Ii
was also said that the woman had been
many times at Police Headquarters with
her story, and that several times detectives
had been sent to see the doctor. When
the doctor told them his side of the case
no more attention was paid to the woman's
complaint, apparently.
At the house. 2lS6 Anthony avenue,
where Miss Schneider has been living for a
month, very little was known about her.
Mrs. Harding, the owner OF the house,
said that Miss Schneider has always acted
in a perfectly sane manner. telling little
about herself. She had never mentioned
LIT, blernOH y name.
Rudolph Hof of 1920 Fifth avenue said last
night that for nearly a year Miss Schneider
has been trying to get people interested in
her case, 80 that she could raise money to
press her suit. She had a number of Circu-
lars printed giving details of her case and
sent them to rich people. She also posted
mp some Of the circulars on posts and bill
boards. She intimated several times that
she would do something to DIR Bierhoh
tina would give the case publicity. He
thinks that she decided on the shooting as a
way to attract attention, but not with the
intention of killing the doctor.
Sheehan is a freshman IN the Columbia
University law school and his home is in
Buffalo. He was graduated from Yale
and is identified in athletics as "A sprinter.
Sheehan was a member Of the winning team
in the interdormitory relay races at Column
bia University recently. He is working
his way through college, being employed
in the Commons lunch room, on the cam
pus, during daytime intervals and assisting
r. p. McOsker, superintendent Of Hartly
Hall. in the evenings.
II was said at st. Luke's Hospital by
the house su in charge that Shechan's
condition was not necessarily critical, but
great care would have TO he taken TO keep
complications from setting IN. bx