New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-12
Flint's Fine Furniture.
Odd Chairs and Tables.
Prices reduced to make room for new goods.
DEATH At THE WEDDING.
THE BRIDEGROOM. OVERCOME BY HEAT
FALLS UNCONSCIOUS AND DIES.
TIE SECOND COURSE OF THE MARRIAGE FEAST
HAD JUST BEEN sERvED-THE BRIDE
FRUSTRATED FROM GRIEF


FRUSTRATED FROM GRIEF
A wedding which ended in the death OF the BRIDE
groom occurred at the Hotel Villamena. Roseoan~-
staten Island on Monday evening The bridegroom
and bride were Joseph G. Plank. former bank
clerk and Miss Annie Bowden. OF Halsey-s''
Brooklyn. Plank for some months had HNeo AZ
the hotel and in that time became friendV win
the proprietor He employed In oank 10
Canal.st. this city until few months ago. ana
earned a good salary. A short time ago ne !e'.
his place and Il was said the time that ne h~d
inherited $1,000 from relatives ABROAD AZ aoo.S
the same time he secured divorce from "i1e III
Germany where he was born
Plank had known Miss Bowder fo- some months
and after the securing ~ his divorce according 70
ar understanding the day was set FOR MS "e''-
ding He decided that II take place In the villa
mena on Monday evening and the nour named
was o'clock. Plank busted himself al nay WI"
the minute details directing the placing OF VI"
flowers IN the rooms and arrangement OF the pam"
for the altar The OF the day ne scent IN
swinging In the hammock on the law" III - ~
to keep cool.
Az 4 o'clock the minister who was 10 perform
the ceremony the Rev James r. sharp an Ep's-
copalian clergyman who IS spending Naoa''o" Ia
West Brighton arrived The two men talked iOF
a few moments Plank telling the minister tnat c'e
bride and her people expected on the uaia
due at o'clock When the train arrived ana inc
bride did not appear Plank became very muen eA-
cited and II required all the efforts OF the rector
70 aim him He watched for the next train, and
when I. came and train followed train and DARK
ness fell ne was beside himself lie ran aoout oe
lawn without head covering and repeatedly asked
II his bride were going fail him II she sag
away" he would repeat. u VIII io' SEC ~'NN>-
AZ .,esrly o'clock the bride appeared sne eA,
planed that the bridal coach had broken 90" % az
fhay had had difficulty in securing another. RANK
apparently became calm ana the az nr,Hs ~.
the ceremony actively begun ne o..ne sa
attended by her sister MISS Lucy po""'''' ~
Plank by George Bowden. 49,. -, soo,, 70
After the wedding the entlre parry ga. ", 80
the wedding feast Plank was on tne rlsnt OF I.'s
Used without incident Just as the second had
been served Plank half-arose IN his seal ne s,
was deathy wilderness in his i4ce ne P'aSer 10
hands above his eyes. ana N ua1eo -
back in his chair unconscious The snrleAS Oh ''''
bride aroused the party , . - .aL., "a TIA
Plank was lifted from his seat ana ,sksh 70 TO- t1
varanda Simple restoratives were useC. re"
did not avail. and Or. Joseph Ih2mpSoI % ,ound
plank in a stlpor and with temperatufe Oh 40
degrees He saw that II was a case o. nse' ptSS
trstion and a serious In two hours aho
dssd TN II was then O'clock Mrs. Plank who Is
onIv twenrv-two years old. was prostratsa from
grief al the death OF her husband ana tor some
Zine needed the attention OF Or thompson
p,snTs body was taken 10 an undertaking estao-
lshment He will be buried in the NoTa''an NeH'o-
ierv in Newborn. to-day.
PLANK was thirty-eight years Old ana so Tar -
can be learned had no relatives IN this aSsr
poison before his marriage, but Dr. Thompson,
Ywhen seen by Tribune reporter: declared tha' "
Was a plain case o. heat prostration