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!LSILENTGUNMANOFLBANYUGHT44Had to Shoot Them,” Says Son Wealthy Westerner, Held for vestigation Into His SanityAlbany, Feb, 2—“I had to shoot them. They followed me all around the country sticking out their tongue*, shuffling their feet and clucking th'dr tongue* I tried everything else- tcid, whitewash and a upline gun that would sting them— but they wouldn't stop. I had to do it,**Thu*, la it night, Harold L. Severy dr coned sullenly his confession of shooting four person* on the streets of Albany la it Frld.iy He mad* theconfession to IHstrict Attorney Alexander and Chief of Police Hiatt Yes ferday afternoon he had been arrested in Schenectady,Lying on the table before him was the 22-cnlihre Steven* target pirtol with n Mnxim atlencer sorer ed to itsmmttle If had been found in hi* suit lt;ase Hlt;» operated the pi*tol from h!» coat sleevo by means of a beefy wire. He is held pending an inquiry Into his mental condition One of the men be ahot lames TJrwln -died early Monday morning' I left my folks *dx years are,” hereetttned. Hnify want id m« to study art, I didn't want to. My father }•Melville L Saviry of Los Angeles. H# made a lot of money in the nieehani-cel piano ni*dne*s in Boston For a lenj while I received a remittance from him fdlt; a week.'1 wanted to become in actor. 1worked in vaudeville and in moving picture* All was well until about a vear ago Then in New York 1 began to nolle*- that prople were sticking out their tongue# at me I paid no at tention fhen they began shuffling their feet and * lucking their torgua*! had a fight with two fellows Theywant**! to send me homeThen I tried Baltimore, where i worked in Johns Hopkins Hospital Then in succession I went to l*tktla delphia, Flttaburgh Chicago, t*ack to New York. Kingston and Alhanv Bui they always caught me And they hecam# more annoy inr'Didn’t intend to Kill.*“I tried throwing sulphuric acid on their clot h as That didn't stop them Then I tried whitewash They arc I led that I bought a spring gun that would throw sharp sin** thatwould sting them That was ineffective Then I bought this otstol and the alleneei 1 didn’t Intend to killany one. .V”1 wanted merelv to shoot at theirorfortoof.I did this and they laughed. Then I decided to shoot them iu the legs and arm*. I didn't want to kill. But according to wht you say I killed a man and shot others seriously. I’m Berry. I didn’t mean to.“I left Albany for Schenectadv. Even thtre 1 found them. 1 didn't want to ah o' t them there, hail mabi I would have had to do something to stop them making Bin of me' Are yon the district attorney a doctor? If you are a dorter. Odd's sake do not send me hack the hospital. That’s all l*m afraid i did every* iiing to stop this persecution of me ou the street* 1 went around paying the bills i owed in restaurants, hoping that would stop it.Didn’t Knew His Victims.“It war on FYioay that things grew worse ond it was that day I shot thirn Thor were ail toiling me that they would get me. Bo It had to bestoppedFor God's safe, dr n’t find me back to the hospital pho year* ago 1 was in the Me Loan Hospital in Wav-arty,Mas* I war there for a nervousbreakdown for a yaar. Thsn t was in other hospitals for a day or so sever-a! times' I didn’t know any of the peoplewho, you say, I shot. I didn’t know * ny of these people. All I know isthat they wan making fun of me and making life miserable for me. It bad to stop.**26 year* old. wma arrestedafternoon In a roomingSchenectady.The police assert they fcsmd a J2 calibre dtovqm rifle equipped with a silencer in ,u#vr ry’s suit case. Hie barrel of the ride was sawed off to sn IS inch length, the police say. The stock had been cut away until nothing but the revolver-like handle-pla a immediately connected with the barrel was leftThis reduced the entire length of the weapon to about 14 Inches, according to the police They say he had cleverly attach**! a wire apparatus to the stock of the rifle and that this wire enabled him to fasten tho weapon to his forosrmAnother wire, held in his hand and attache*! to a pulley, enabled him to pull the trigger The rifle was thus concealed within his coat sleeve.Sever),veeterdayhouse in
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Orange County Times Press
Middletown, New York, US
Fri, Feb 04, 1916
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