The evening world., 1922-05-29
INSANE VETERAN
THROWS RED CROSS
OFFICES |NTOPAN|C
81 Want Relief" He Screams
as He Crashes Arm
Through Glass.
WOMEN CLERKS FAINT.
Battles Police Until Woman
Ambulance Surgeon
ChloroforrnS Him.

Brooding over the failure of the
Government to agree upon his "com-
pensation," and worried by the i'll
ness of his young wife, Peter O'Don-
nell, thirty-eight, No. 119 East seth
Street, who fought overseas with the
18th Engineers. went upon mad
rampage to-day which halted for Il
time while he staged a one man riot
in the Madison Avenue rooms of the
New York County Chapter of the
American Red Cross. II ended with
his being taken TO Bellevue Hospital
to have his right arm amputated at
the elbow and then be examined in
the observation ward. o'Donnell
probably lost the arm by plungng 1t
through n plate-klass window.
without collar or tie and with his
shirt wide open, o'Donnell at 10
O'Clock rushed into the Red Cross
offices on the seventh floor OF tho
Bankers Trust Building-he had
there many times before but always
neatly dressed and always we'll be-
haved-and. asked by a young wom
an attendant what they could do for
him, cried out:
I'm an ex-service man; | fought
overseas; I want relief"
Between, forty and nifty stenogra =
piers and clerks looked up from their
work to see O'Donnell, yelling and
screaming, thrust his right arm
through a glass partition which sepa =
rates the main Office from the pri f.
vate> room or one of the executives.
For the next twenty minutes the
place was in an uproar. O'Donnell,
whose arm the surgeons say will have
to he amputated, continued to yell
while the blood poured from him.
Some of the young women tainted.
A few became hysterical. One called
in Policeman Jaeger of the East 6lst
Street Police Station and telephoned
to Flower Hospital for an ambulance.
When Jaeger arrived O'Donnell
sprang for his throat and they went
to the floor together. The arrival OF
Policeman Kenny of the same station
appeared TO add to O'Donnells fury
and increase his strength. The officers
were forced 10 use their sticks, and
finally, while Kenny kneeled upon
ODonnelI, Jaeger applied tourniquet
improvised by the use Of his club.
O'Donnell put up three battles be-
fore he was removed from the Red
Cross premises and placed in the am %
bulance. He tried hard to attack the
driver. He did his best, TO fight away
DIR. Jedlicka OF Flower Hospital. She
applied chloroform to his nose and
mouth and, guarded by two policemen
and two citizens, O'Donnell was taken
to Bellevue Hospital.
O'DonnelI, a victim of shell shock,
was a Government patient in the early
part of 1sst year in Manhattan state
Asylum. Subsequently he became A
| frequent visitor TO the Red cross, on
the subject OF his expected compcn
| sation.
At the officcs Of the New YORK
| chapter this afternoon, an ofiicial said
no one in the ofiices had any othei
feeling for o'Donnell than sympathy
1.-THE man VINO came here to-day
this official said. twas not the O'Don'
nell we had become acquainted WIN
| and, knowing his medical history an'
his war record. We are all of us sorry
| for him. We have no doubt that Mrs
O'Donnell's illness have tw'
months old baby--proved too mucl
for him, combined with MS otho
| worries,"
In sGth Street II Was said the for
mer soldier had been employed re
Gently as ianitor Of synagogue,
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