Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-15
ATTEMPTS TOK|LL
BABE AND HIMSELF
Treasury Clerk. Suddenly In
sane, Uses Hatchet
and Razor.
MOTHER VAINLY TRIES
MOTHER VAINlY TRIES
TO SHIELD HER CHILD
Makes Frantic Effort to Break Into
Bathroom. Where Deed Is Done.
NEIGHBORS GIVE THE ALARM
Harry E. Hay and His Six-Year-old
Victim Both in the Hos
pital in Critical
! Condition.

In fit of apparently insane passion
Harry E. Hay. clerk in the Treasury
Department, this morning attempted to
kill his six-year-old son Kenneth with
hatchet in the bathroom Of his home. 1O2S
Park road. and then tried to end his own
life by cutting his throat and slashins
his wrist with a razor.
The child is now in Garfield Hospital
suffering from two fractures of the skull.
Physicians say he may recover. Hay is
also at the hospital, in a critical condi-
ton.
According to relatives, Hay has been
suffering from nervousness for some
weeks and was in fear of being placed in
an insane asylum. Mrs. Hay, who vainly
tried to save her child from harm this
morning, was unable to check her hus-
band when he was seized with sudden
homicidal mania.
Transformed from a quiet, loving father
to a maniac. Hay left his bed shortly
after o'clock this morning and followed
the boy to the bathroom. on the same
floor. He locked the door and immedi-
ately began his attack on the child. The
screams of the child and his pleadings
were heard by Mrs. Hay, who made q
desperate attempt to enter the room and
save her boy and husband from injury.
| Servant Saves Baby.
Her screams were heard by neighbors,
and Sally Talley, colored servant who
RESPONDED first, ran to the front room
and carried the two-year-old child of
her mistress out of the house.
! Mrs. Lake, wife of Police Sergt. Lake,
| who lives next door to the Hay home,
heard the cries of her neighbor and went
| to a window and called for assistance
| According to Mrs. Lake 1t was twenty
minutes before Leon Morales. who lives
at 1O24 Park road, entered the Hay resi-
dence. Mrs. Wilson Miller, another
neighbor, followed Morales into the house.
while her husband went for a physician
Unable to gain access to the bathroom,
Morales summoned police assistance, and
Bicycle Policemen Holmes and Collins,
who arrived in a few minutes, pounded on
the door.
Hay objected to admitting the police
men at first and ordered them from the
house. When they finally impressed Hay
that they were not to be frightened away.
| he opened the door and they grabbed him.
Ghastly Scene Presented.
Lying on the bathroom floor. with the
| hatchet near his head, the boy was found
| unconscious. One Of his hands was
clutching the rim Of the bathtub. lie
father was standing over the tub. and
blood was streaming from his wounds.
The floor and bottom Of the tub We're
covered with blood, and the razor, still
open. was lying ON washstand.
Hay WAS taken out without much
| trouble by one Of the policemen, while
| the other obtained pillows and blankets
| and carried tine child to another r0om
Mrs. Hay was Frustrated by the CHASTITY
| sight and friends who came to the house
| assisted in making her comfortable.
| In a few minutes the patrol wagon
| from the tenth precinct arrived ana the
father and son We're rushed TO the Car
| field Hospital. About a half an hour had
| apsed from the time Hay began his at
tack until the police reached the house.
| On the way to the hospital the father
repeatedly inquired, lis Kenneth alive
| YETI" When the hospital was reached
Hay expressed surprise that the boy was
| still alive.
Stories Told by Witnesses.
Mrs Hay was taken to the hospital
| later in the morning to see her husband
and child She was in a terribly nervous
condition and was unable to relate the
story of her experience NeighbOrs and
the colored servant were able to tell
something of 1t, however.
.lxo III To <b<a
nest pleadings of Mrs. Hay during the
time her husband was in the bathroom
with the child. and Sally Talley related
what she knew OF the occurrence.
II appears that Hay has been treated
| for nervousness, and recently something
was said about his being sent to a sani-
| tarium or hospital He feared he would
land in hospital for the insane. it is
stated, and he worried over 1t SO much
| that his friends think he lost his reason.
This morning about ten minutes before
Z o'clock Kenneth Hay. who slept in the
room between the front room and the
bathroom got up and went to the rear
room to awaken the servant. His father
occupied the front room with Mrs. Hay,
while the younger OF the two children oc-
cupied q crib next to his parents bed.
lust when and how Hay procured the
hatchet the police were not told. He fol-
lowed Kenneth to the bathroom. however.
and so greatly alarmed the son with the
weapon that the latter screamed. Mrs.
Hay went to. the bathroom to assist her
child and to prevent her husband from
damaging himself, but the door was
locked and she was unable to get in.
Heard Child's Pleadings.
Through the wall Mrs. Lake could hear
the child pleading with her husband.
and she could hear his responses, al
though she could not make out what
he said Mrs. Hay hammered on the
door and begged that her husband open
It. but all to no purpose. Mrs. Lake
declares she could hear what she
thought was the noise made by the
hatchet coming down upon the boys
skull.
.My God, don't do it, was the first
thing she heard Mrs. Hay say to her
husband.
my God. come to me. somebody" she
was next heard to say.
Then the frantic woman called to the
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