The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-09
ALLEGED ''M'DRIDE' USED
ANOTHER'S nAMEfOR YEARS
Former Harrisburger, in Philadelphia
Hospital From Pistol Wounds, Is
Charged With Working Under Di-
ploma Stolen in Palm Beach

Philadelphia, Nov. 9.-Detectives
here yesterday disclosed remarkable
story of a man who for years has been
practcing dentistry in Pittsburgh and
Harrisburg under the name and di-
ploma of another man. and even had
married under his victims name.
The person whom the detectives ac-
euse of the duplieity has been posing
as c. Calvin Mcbride. He now is in the
jefferson Hospital, recovering from a
bullet wound received at the hand of
DR.. Silas G. Hertz, an aged physician,
in the latter s Office, at 1113 Chestnut
street. The shooting occurred on the
night of October 26.
The impostor, who real name is be-
lieved TO be Harrison, not only prae
ticed his profession under the borrowed
name and diploma, according to the de
tectives, but was married and had a
child born to him under the name OF
Mcbride. His wife and child are liv-
ing in Harrisburg, where he conducted
a successful practice for years.
Newspaper stories relating TO the
shooting resulted in the disclosures. On
the night of October 26 the man who
posed as Mcbride went to DR.. Hertz s
office and got into an argument with
the physician over questions OF anat.
omy. DR.. Hertz, who is 72 years old,
picked up an old brass-barrcl revolver
which had not been discharged for
more than half century and fred at
the man.
Seriously wounded. Mcbride" stag
geTed TO the street, where a policeman
found him and took hom to the hos
pital He is recovering, and expects to
be discharged within few days.
In the meantime. DR.. Calvin Me
Bride, graduate of the University Of
Pennsylvania dental college and prac
ticing student, of Thirty-tourth street
and Broadway, New York, read an ac-
count of the shooting. Attracted by the
similarity of his name with that of the
victim of the shooting DR.. Mcbride re-
membcred that his dental diploma had
been stolen at Palm Beach, Fla, in
1898.
DR., Mcbride got in touch with De-
tective Emanuel of the City Hall force,
and yesterday the New York dentist
came to this city. He went to the hos,
pital and confronted the wounded man
on his cot.
According to Detective Emanuel. the
pseudo-McBride acknowledged that he
had been using the real Dr. Mcbride s
diploma, first in Pittsburgh and later at
10 Market square, Harrisburg. The
name on the diploma, he said, led MIN
to take it as his own and he was mar
10 t.R LuS IL.
bears the same name.
The diploma, he said. is in the hands
of man named Ewing in Pittsburgh.
He gave it to Ewing as security for a
$40 loan.
The day after the shooting police
here received a message from York, Pa,
asking that Mcbride be- held after
his discharge from the hospital. lie
is accused to passing two bogus checks,
one for SO and another for SIS, By G..
=. Zcrhng, u York lawyer. York au-
thorities, who had been looking for him,
learned of bis whereabouts when the
newspapers published the story of the
shooting.
Harrisburg police, who declare the
man had y good practice in that city
as DIR. McBride,' say his wife there
had heard nothing from her husband for
several months prior TO the shooting
and that she had an action for divorce
pending.
The bullet which wounded Me.
Bride = penetrated the left cheek and
lodged in his head. 1t was located by
the H-rays. DR.. Hertz, his assailant, and
his brother, DR.. Eiam A. Hertz. dem
tist. who was in the office when the
shooting occurred, are being held in
$500 bail to await the result of his in
juries.