New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-10-03
FROM PROSPERITY TO A MADHOUSE.
ALBERT wEBERS WILD CAREER. IN WHICH he
DIssIPATsD HIS FATHERS WEALTH


DIssIPATsD HIS FATHERS WEALTH.
Albert Weber is not such an old man. only thir'y
eight and 1t was not very long ago that he occu-
pied an enviable place so far the good thhss
of this world go. And now 1t happens that ne Is III
a madhouse friendless and in poverty. and wnose
the fault is. well-the STORY of his life as they
say in melodrama. tells that
When Albert Weber came OF age seventeen years
ago. his father a well-known and prosperous manu-
facturer of pianos had recently died, leaving 10 MS
son his business and what was reputed to be con-
siderable fortune Young Weber lost no time III
employing himself with the task OF dissipatihg the
money which thus came into his possession, and as
he made effort to keep up the supply Oh cash oy
attending to business occasionally, the weber
Plano Company ultimately went into receiver
hands.
Weber soon became known as man about town.
He went everywhere where there was anything ex-
citing going on. and the haunts or all fast hVers
became well known to him. Rumors ana reports VI
his wild doings have from time to time found ther
way into print and some spicy tales have been told
of his relations with certain female members OF the
theatrical profession. What made this worse was
the fact that after he came or age WEBER mar
ried a daughter of DR.. J. W. Cloves divorce soon
followed this marriage. and weber pluhseo S'i''
deeper into dissipation His failure to pay alimony
to his divorced wife brought him frequently into
court. His second wife was Irene Perry. VINO was
a member of the McCaull Opera Company when she
married him. The singer lived with her huspaho
only eight months. Declaring then that she couid
endure his cruelty no longer she went to Europe
Not long after that Weber met another singer o.
the stage Nina Harrington, and Installed her IN
handsome fiat In West Twenty third-st, the fur
nishings OF which reported to nave cost I'M
young spendthrift a pretty penny: one day II
1893 when he returned to the fiat from the races
Weber found that his companion had taken WINGS
Besides the wings she also took the furniture o
the fiat Chrssie Carlisle lately OF the Lao!
Slavey" company the next recipient OF Wep
er's bounty and Irene Perry. hearing now tnlns
were sued for IL divorce, which she speedily got
The number of times that Weber has inquired
I'm tho courts as the principal figure in various
violent occurrences that took place in the Tender
traordinary Only last Monday morning he wa
fined in the Jefferson Market Police Court becaus
on the night previous he had extensively employee
the services Of a Tenderoin cabman and then re
fused to pay therefor. Weber said that he ha'
come to town meet the harrison sisters, va
rety troupe of whose doings in Europe strange tale
had been heard. Those who knew Weber believed
fined s. for threatening to shoot a porter In IN
saesrooms OF the Weber Piano Company. HI
fine was paid by old man. who refused TO Civ
his name But for the kindness OF that old maj
Weber would now have been in Jail instead or al
insane asylum But perhaps one place Is just a
good another in Weber's mind. He was take
| to Bellevue Hospital by DR.. Washburn, of Pelham
Manor. on Thursday night.
The lunacy examiners did not pass on Weber case
last night as had been expected. He sail to have
been slightly derious in the afternoon ana In th'
evening the attendants had trouble in persuadng Mn
10 retire. At 10 o'clock last night Weber was reported
| be resting quietly.