Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-08-12
THE LOST BRIDEGROOM.
Locked Up In an Insane Asylum
by His Brothers.
SAY he Is A PAREsIs VICTIM.

He Shouts to a Friend From n Window In
BIoominEdaIe AsyIum-His Bride Elect
Almost Prostrated-A Lawyer win Try
to Get Him Out.
NEW YORK. Aug. - - Clara Perry
Thomas learned for the first time in the
supreme court before Justice O'Brien that
David J. solomon. Ter intended bride
groom. who came not to the wedding feast
he had ordered on Wednesday afternoon,
had been committed to Bloomingdale asy-
lum at the instance of his brothers, Henry
J. and Lemond Solomon, on Tuesday aft
ernoon.
The hearing on her writ of habeas corpus
for the production of David was adjourned
to Tuesday on consent after she had been
informed of the commitment, and she went
into an empty courtroom with her sister
Louise, her counsel, r. J. Haire. and some
friends and swooned
When she revived she had fit OF weep
ing and then she and those about her
asked the reporters if it was right to whisk
a man off into an asylum that way. She
had driven about the city on Tuesday
morning with David, she said, while he
made arrangements for the wedding. She
left him at Broadway and Nineteenth
street to do some shopping. and he drove
down to the neCkwear concern at SAT
Broadway, in which he and one of his
brothers are partners. That afternoon two
physicians, Graeme NJ. Hammond and G.
II. Brown, were summoned to the place of
business They filled out a certificate for
his commitment.
Judge McAdam of the superior court,
who was not sitting that day in court. was
found elsewhere, and the commitment was
signed. No court record of such n commit-
ment is required to be made.
Miss Thomas story.
Miss Thomas who is rs years old and
shapely. said that she, of all persons,
should have been informed of the proceed
ings and at any rate told where her fiance
had been taken. His brothers had sent her
word on Tuesday night that David was
i'll. She immediately went to the house of
Henry J. solomon, IS east SiXty-fifth
street, taking her sister Louise and her
physician. DIR. Ludden saw Henry J.
Solomon. Henry said that David had been
sent away insane, but refused to say
whittier.
Il never saw any symptoms of insanity"
Miss Thomas said, during the II years l
have known David. l was IA years old
when l went to work for the neckwear
firm of his father, Josiah Solomon, who
died Dec. 81 last. David had been stopping
with my mother at 23T West One Hundred
and Twenty-third street That Tuesday
morning he came down early to breakfast
He first took some fruit. He had pecul-
lar way he wanted hominy cooked and
told me to fix it for him. I said:
You big baby, to want it just that
way
~ sD,;Io5 IN rorlv AF+ar braoly fos+ he
| went down and told the men who were
tearing up the street that he would like it
paved before our house for Wednesday
| afternoon in view of the wedding. Then
we got into the carriage he had given me
| and drove about to give some orders for
/ the wedding David ordered cold luncheon
I for 40, and simple floral decorations. in
| Guiding a flower bell and a bouquet for
Z me. Then we drove to the house of Rev.
DR. Harris of the Fifth Avenue temple,
| and in his absence left word for him to
come to officiate the next afternoon We
| went to the New Netherlands hotel. where
| David engaged rooms We were to go to
the Thousand islands on Thursday morn.
| ing and he back TO town the following
| Monday He had chosen the dullest sea.
| son in trade for the marriage. That didn {
| look insane He had hoped to find "A chance
to take me TO Chicago in September.
| TIE previous Thursday he had given
me a wedding ring to keep for him until
/ the event, and solitaire diamond ring
both of which he got that day at Tiffany's
Months before he gave me a double dia
mond ring"
Refused to Let Her See Him.
| She showed the three rings TO the re
porter. The wedding ring and the solitaire
ring had the same inscription, ID. J. S. tc
| c. p. T, Aug. 9, 1898"
| Lawyer Haire said last night that he
| would obtain an order to show cause today
| why the commitment should not be sci
| aside. He said that Clara and her sister
Louise had gone to the asylum yesterday
afternoon, but that those in charge refused