New-York tribune., 1921-01-29
Doctors Subdue
Giant Maniac
WELDING Knife
Ex-Patient Attempts to Kill
Bellevue Psychiatrist,
but Is Overpowered by
Two o t h e r Physicians
Once in Observation W ard
You Tried to Take Away My
Liberty!' He Cries, Then
Lunges at His Victim

DR.. Stephen P. Jewett, Of 1900 Madi-
son Avenue, one Of the attending psy
chiatrists at Bellevue Hospital, got the
impression yesterday that some one
had stolen quietly into the room on
the second floor Of the psychopathic
building at Bellevue Hospital where
he was examining records.
Quietly amused at himself for yield
ing to the impulse, which he was GER
tain was q purely physical reaction to
some slight sound which his preoccu-
pied brain had failed to identify. Or
Jewett looked over his shoulder. The
hair at the base of his skull promptly
reacted in a purely physical manner at
the sight that confronted him.
A tall. powerfully built man was
poised in the doorway as if for q
and extended and clutched q long
bladed knife which. in an entirely su-
perphysical way, attracted to its
cleaning length all the sunlight in the
room and threw everything else into
shadow.
"I've got you now," said the appari-
| ton, and DR.. Jewett noted automatically
that his teeth remained tightly clinched
denoting deep emotion and probably
complete sincerity of purpose.
"You tried to take my liberty away
and now Pm going to kill you," con-
tinued the man with the knife with q
rising infection which indicated, the
psychiatrist perceived, that sudden
and violent physical exertion was i'm
minent.
DR.. Jewett did not wait for any more
symptoms to present themselves. He
dropped to all fours as suddenly as
though he had been shot. With the
same suddenness the man in the door
way projected himself forward. The
physicians maneuver saved him from
the point OF his assailant's knife, but
the haft of it caught him on the lef,
cheek bone as he dropped and flung
him so violently to the right that he
upset chair.
The crash of furniture and the 'scuf.
fling and scrambling which followed as
the man with the knife pursued the
physician around the room brought DR.
M. j. Thornton, a resident physician
ett's assailant while DR.. Jewett crap.
pied with him.
The intruder was finging both his
adversaries about when DR.. Monroe
Meyer ran in, holding aloft a ponder.
Gus ledger Of at least twenty pounds
weight, which he brought down with all
his force upon the head of the mar
with the knife. Owing to the latter's
stature, the blow did not fall with the
full strength of the swing DR.. Meye,
gave the tome, but it stunned him m o.
mentarily, nevertheless, and in that mo-
ment he was overpowered and disarmed
A few minutes later he went to the
psychopathic ward in straitjacket
while Dr.. Jewett went home to dress
a livid bruise on his left cheek and
anal re the incident with view to
discovering whether his premonition OF
danger was purely physical or had 8
psychic element.
The man in the psychopathic ward is
John Kohler, of 800 East Sixty-first
Street, janitor. He was admitted t.
the hospital two years ago as a posi-.
BILE paranoiac. DR.. Jewett and other
phys. clans had him under observation
for several days and then he was dis
charged. No effort to have him com
mitted as insane was made by DR.. Jew.
EFT or any one else, it was said.