The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-11-08
LUNAHE A STRIKE GUARD
MtNTtDT HAD ESCAPED FROM
afDDLETOWN tSILGN.
Once President of . Company THAT Mar.
kctrsi Ills On, rntisusr . Detee.
the's Card Here and Carried q Biiiy
n tie Protected Express Wagons.

Francis " Alaxtadt. an escaped mnatic
from the Stat. Hospital forsthe lnsIsne at
Middletown. y Y. who has been work ing
since October a as a guard for tn. Adams
Express Company so protect It's wagons
from strikers. was arrested yesterday
afternoon Detective Snydecker OF Head
quarters found a policeman's nightstick
ON him and the charge Of carrying CON
cealei weapons stands against him until
the hospital authorities can he communi-
Gated with
MaStadt until eleven wears ago IA the
president of the American Electric Fuse
Company. an Illinois corporation. and
made his home In Chicago He had in
vented veral electric appliances and had
organized this company ~ put them on
tn. market lie drew a substantial salary
as president of the company AMI got
ROYALTIES from his inventions.
t.,orge Alc 'urdy. manager II the
American Electric Fuse Company New
ior. offices IN the Morton Building. li8
Nassau street. who worked Under Max
tadt in Chicago. said last night that Max
fadt lost his position IA president of the
company because he couldn't stand pros
perity and began TO spend more than his
income. The company found a shortage
OF about sjO. 900. saws Mcturdy MaXtndt
was arrested. hat when h. agreed 10 re
sign his job and assign iu the COMPANY all
right to his patents 1t was decided not to
prosecute him
From Chicago Maxtasit went ~ san
Francisco. taking with him his wife and
tw" sons. Mr. McCurdy heard nothing
further from him until two years ago. w hen
Maxtadt driftad into the New York otfic.
Of the company Maxtadt didn't look
prosperous. He was looking for work
and had taken his family 20 his native
town. Monroe. y Y. II" talked qieerly
at that time
Last MAY Maxtad, was sant TO the
Middletown asylum 10y the Monroe
authorities He escaped on August Ia.
Since then no has been drifting about
New York city, Supt VI. &. Ashley 81 the
asylum asked the police here tn find him
ard they looked mp Mr.. McCurdy He
see him three days before they got there
and had borrowed g. Mcsurdy had known
nothing II his confinement in the asylum.
He Furnished n good description 81 the
man. Including the point that Maxtadt
has a glas. eye.
Yesterday Detective Snydecker. as
signed 10 the Adams Express Company
stables at Rector street and Trinity place.
noticed man with a glass eye. He con
suited the roll call 81 the strike breakers
and found that the man with the glass
eve was Matxtadt. When Naxt&sit went
out Ia lunch Snydecker followed him and
arrested him on Park row
He was taken to ESSEX Market police
court A long club had been found On him
when he was arrested ard tho charge Of
carrying concealed weapons was made
Maxtadt told Magistrate OConnor he
had right To carry the stick and showed
a card from the Gotham Detective Agency
signed by l.. r. I.ebouJ. the siperin-
tendent. which said that the bearer was
State Detective No. 2a3 Magistrate
O'Connor said that that didn't give him
a right To cnrry a concealed billy.
Things have come to a fine pass. said
the Magistrate. when insane men carry
clubs and detectives cards. This man
might have gone violently insane any time
Are you IN. same man that escaped from
i didn't escape said Maxtadt L
simply walked ont
Ma ,istrate O'Connor held him in 81 500
hail for tho Grand Jury.