Description | Cornelius Williams was a tenant in 1895 at a boardinghouse owned by Hannah Elias in New York. One day when her lover John R. Platt, who used the name Green when visiting, came to see Hannah. Williams answered the door, but took a dislike to “Green” and refused to let him in. He was evicted from the boardinghouse a few weeks later. He also left the church that both he and Hannah Elias belonged to, claiming that she had turn the congregation against him. He kept his grudges against “Green” and Hannah Elias. Unable to find Elias, he found the name of noted New York City planner Andrew H. Green,“The Father of Greater New York,” and decided he was her lover “Green.” On Friday, November 13, 1903, Williams shot Andrew H. Green to death. After the investigation, he was committed to an insane asylum. |