A CRAZY BRIDEGROOM

Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 369, 27 June 1884, Page 5

A CRAZY BRIDEGROOM

, At an early hour oia' the morning of March 25, police officer Monoghan, in going his rounds near the cornor of First Avenue and Seventeenth street, was acoosted by a fashionably dressed young man, between whom and the officer this dialogue ensued : —

, " You had better go home ; it's rather Ta/66 for you to be out." " I want to go lionie ;' and I want you to get me a hack and take mo borne." The young man then, gave an address,,. , " Where have you been ?" " I was married yesterday afternoon, and just before going .to bed I went, down to, get a glass or beer. I intend to start for Germany with my .wife to-morrow, and so I thought I had better put my valuablesatv'ay. At the corner of Fourteenth street I nlet an' 'officer,' and gave him o'OOclols in gold, , a gold' watch, my chain, and all.the jewellery I possessed." ' . ' 'Tjie officer, cbucludcd th^,i ijic : ,s trangor vra3 insane; 1 and took him to the precinct police-station-house. Sergeant Fanning was at the desk, and ..this, .officer asked the<yoiing fiirmhis name .and trade. 1 'fiit am Br Alexander Piper," he replied,; " and live at No. 324, East Twenty-fourth street. lam one of the best physicians in .the, cpuntiy, and have all the firemen and police sergeants of the city under my control."

A constable was sent to tlic address given, and quickly returned with. Dr Piper's wife.,,,, Tho latter confirmed t)ie, statement that they had been married that afternoon. iSho had known her husband a long time, and after the honeymoon they were to sail for; Germany, where he had wealthy relatives. After receiving the congratulations of their friends, some of whom remained with them till a late hour, she reared, and, he went out for some beer, but never, returned. There was an affecting scene when the couple met in the, .prison, room. He rushed towards her and flung .his arms around her neck, crying, .V Mellai!; Mella !" .. S.hq .wept on, hi^ : shouldjei\wJien . she sawjtha^ner^htUsljandiliad reajjlyjlg^tjj his reason,' ', and %eggect. the , sergeant to let her take; him. - Ttie 'office* staid' he 1 I could not until after a medical examina-- : tion- had been made. The' ! gii-l ; fell'onher knees, and in accents of bitterest woe prayed the officer in German to let her husband go with her. " I will take him to a private hospital to-morrow," she said, " and he will stay there until he is well." Her husband looked around in a dazed sort of way, and when he understood that he could not go with his wife he also wept. Officer Jennings, who had been on the corner of Fourteenth street, said the : story the young man told about giving his valuables to an officer should be| looked into, especially as he was on the corner of Sixteenth street, and had seen 'the young man come up ihe street. The sergeant questioned Piper closely on 1 this story, but couldn't make him change his tale. The officers were of the, opinion, that he intended doing as he says he had done, but had given his money to some foot -pad. When it, .was time for the young woman to leave, she cried so much that Sergeant Panning allowed her to stay in" the receptionroom over night. Justice Patterson, in/ the morning, remanded Piper for medical attention. H« was taken to Bellevue Hospital and put in- the insane pavilion. —'New York Herald. 1